Hand #81: Brian Yoon raised to 350,000, and he took the pot.
Hand #82: Yoon opened to 325,000 on the button, and Justin Zaki three-bet to 790,000 in the big blind. Yoon let his hand go.
Hand #83: Yoon raised to 325,000, and Cuong Van Nguyen called from the button. The flop came . Yoon bet 400,000, and Van Nguyen shipped all in immediately for 2.875 million. Yoon folded after some thought, seeming anguished.
Hand #84: Zaki opened for a raise from the button, and Yoon bumped it to 850,000 from the big blind. Zaki folded.
Hand #85: Roland Israelashvili raised to 340,000 from the button. He took down the pot.
Hand #86: Yoon raised to 325,000 from the button. Zaki made it 860,000 from the big blind, and he took the pot.
Hand #75: Roland Israelashvili limped from the small blind, Brian Yoon raised to 360,000 from the big, and Israelashvili called to see a flop where he check-folded to bet of 350,000 from Yoon.
Hand #76: Brian Yoon raised to 300,000 from the small blind and took down the pot.
Hand #77: Brian Yoon raised to 240,000 on the button and Nghi "Henry" Tran three-bet shoved from the big blind for 860,000. Yoon called with , trailing Tran's .
The flop fell , no help to Yoon. However, the landed on the turn to give Yoon the lead. The river was no help to Tran, ending his tumultuous day with a fifth-place finish in the Little One.
Hand #70: Cuong Van Nguyen raised to 360,000 under the gun, and that was good enough to take the pot.
Hand #71: Roland Israelashvili bumped it to 265,000 on the button. Brian Yoon three-bet to 725,000 from the small blind. Israelashvili folded after a couple of minutes of thought.
Hand #72: Israelashvili took down the pot with a raise to 265,000.
Hand #73: Israelashvili raised to 265,000 once again, this time from under the gun, and he took the pot again.
Hand #74: Yoon raised to 240,000 under the gun, and Nghi Tran called from the button, as did Israelashvili in the big blind. The flop came down , and Yoon fired a continuation-bet of 350,000. Tran raised to 750,000, and Israelashvili got out of the way. Yoon thought for about a minute before shoving all in, and Tran beat him into the pot.
Tran:
Yoon:
Tran had sprung a trap by flatting with aces, and Yoon had fallen into it with his open-ended straight draw.
"Six-ball," someone yelled from the rail.
The dealer burned and turned, and sure enough, a completed Yoon's straight and left Tran drawing dead.
Hand #65: Nghi "Henry" Tran raised to 260,000 from the cutoff and collected the blinds and antes.
Hand #66: Cuong Van Nguyen received a walk in the big blind.
Hand #67: Brian Yoon raised to 240,000 on the button and Nghi Tran called from the big blind. The flop came down and Tran check-folded to Yoon's bet of 275,000.
Hand #68: Nghi Tran raised from the small blind and took down the pot.
Hand #69: Brian Yoon raised to 240,000 in the hijack and Nghi Tran called on the button. The flop came down and Yoon continued for 315,000. Tran called to see the turn where Yoon fired 575,000. Tran nearly beat him into the pot with calling chips and the river completed the board. A check from Yoon led to a bet of 600,000 from Tran. Yoon tanked for about four minutes before he called.
"You win...unless you called with king high. Then you lose," said Tran, as he tabled . Yoon took one final look at his hand before tossing it to the muck,
"What a value bet!" yelled an excited Tran as he stacked his newly won chips, upping his stack to about 4.3 million. Yoon slipped to about 3 million.