Andrew Chen Advances to the Final Table
Level 8
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Jeff Madsen raised with the button and Andrew Chen called out of the big blind. The flop fell and Chen checked to Madsen who continued for 5,550. Chen check-raised to 13,000, Madsen moved all in for 35,000 and Chen called.
Madsen:
Chen:
"That's a good hand," Madsen joked when he saw Chen's hand, and indeed it was one of the worst hands he could be up against. The on the turn was not a club so it kept Madsen alive, but he couldn't find a king or seven on the river when the dealer burned and turned the .
Madsen will have to settle with $10,000 for winning his first table while Chen is now guaranteed $30,000, a seat at the televised final table and a shot at the $200,000 first prize.