Nguyen's Trips Are Quite a Schock
Level 23
: 15,000/30,000, 0 ante
Mitch Schock has found himself on the wrong end of Sean Nguyen's trips to slip to just 140,000 in chips as the action continues nine-handed at this final table.
Schock opened with a raise out of the cutoff, but Nguyen three-bet it from the button, forcing the blinds out of the way before Schock called to go heads-up to a flop of . Schock check-called Nguyen's bet after the flop, then check-called Nguyen on both the turn of the and the river of the .
Nguyen rolled over for flopped trips and Schock, naturally, was quite surprised. You thought we were going to say "shocked" didn't you? Dang it, we just did.
Nguyen's stack is looking a little healthier now, as he's up to 430,000 and change.