Hands #99-103: Chips Flying Nguyen's Way

Hand #99: Tommy Nguyen raised to 1,700,000 and James Carroll called. Carroll check-called a bet of 2,000,000 on a . The turn was the and both players checked. The river was the . Carroll bet 1,500,000 and Nguyen raised to 6,000,000. After some thought Carroll called.

"Flush is good," said Nguyen, tabling . Carroll rechecked his cards and mucked.

Hand #100: Carroll raised to 1,800,000 and Nguyen called. Nguyen check-called a bet of 1,500,000 on and the two checked down an board. Carroll showed and won the pot.

Hand #101: Nguyen raised to 1,700,000 and Carroll called. Carroll check-called a bet of 2,000,000 on but check-folded to a bet of 8,000,000 on the turn.

Hand #102: Carroll raised to 1,600,000 and Nguyen called. Nguyen check-folded to a bet of 1,600,000 on .

Hand #103: Nguyen raised to 1,700,000. Carroll called. The flop came and Carroll check-called a bet of 1,500,000. The turn was the and Carroll check-called 5,000,000.

The river was the . Carroll check-called a final bet of 7,000,000 and Nguyen showed and that was good enough to take down the pot and open a commanding chip lead.