And Thien There Was One
We caught the action on the river of the board, with a gentleman in mid-position snap-shoving for 40,000 into a 60,000 pot. Thien Nguyen in the cutoff tanked up for a long, long time, and then called, turning over for a straight. His opponent was furious.
"Nice slowroll," he said, flashing before storming off.
Nguyen raked in the huge pot, and it turned out it wasn't really a slowroll - he'd really been concerned that his opponent could had been holding for the higher straight. More of a nitroll, perhaps.
Either way, Nguyen is up to 165,000 and if he's not actually our chip leader right now, he can't be far off.