Theo-Cracy
He raised preflop and then called a reraise. He and his opponent checked the flop, and Tran check-called a 6,100 bet on the turn. Come the river, Tran bet out 45,000, enough to put his opponent all in, and the player folded.
That put him up to 100,000.
Then, a little later, there was a three-way all in at his table, Tran holding and his opponents holding and respectively. Not enough help for the all in two on the board, and Tran was over 130,000.
"Anthony, don't write that down," he urged our field reporter, "I don't want people to know I pick up chips with aces."
Jennifer Harman turned to Anthony. "And the rest of them with kings," she added.
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And if that weren't enough, the very next hand Tran found pocket tens and ran into an opponent holding pocket threes for quads on a board -- and managed to lose no more than 5,000 or so. He's resting on a shade below 130,000 currently.