Faraz Jaka in the Lead, Scotty Nguyen Again Makes it to Final Table in WPT
Nguyen is used to do well at Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Bellagio, as he made to the final table of this exact tournament also on the first season of WPT. Nguyen started the day 5 with second smallest chip stack in the play, but in the end of the day he found himself second in chips.
First double-up of the day for Scotty came when he moced his 327k chips all in with a pair of fours. Faraz Jaka called with A-3 of spades and managed to pick up a spade flush draw on the flop. After two blanks on the turn and on the river Nguyen was still in the tournament, now with a healthier stack of 727k in chips.
Jaka tried hard to bust Nguyen out of the tournament, as the players collided later again. Scotty raised under the gun to 120,000, in which Jaka responded with a raise from the cutoff to 300,000. Nguyen called and the flop came A-K-4 rainbow. After a check, a bet and an all in call by Nguyen, cards was turned up and Scotty was well ahead with A-J against Q-J. A couple of fives completed the board and Nguyen was up over million chips.
The the most controversial hand went also Scotty, when he tripled up through John Juanda and Chad Batista. Juanda moved all in from the button, without moving any chips forward, only saying “all in”. Then Batista, who was wearing headphones and didn’t hear Juanda’s action, moves all in too. Nguyen makes the call all in and at some point Batista realizes Juanda was all in before him and wants to take his bet back.
Scotty is looking for a second win in WPT.
Batista is clearly pissed and Scotty openly laughing about the situation doesn’t make him feel any better. Finally the cards are turned over, A-6 for Juanda, a pair of deuces for Batista and the rockets for Nguyen. The board doesn’t bring any help for Juanda or Batista and Nguyen triples up over 3 million on chips.
After the remaining players gathered to the final 10-handed table, the game progressed quickly. It took only 26 hands to find out the last six who would make it to the televised final. Batista was out first after losing a flip against Scotty with a pair of fives agains K-J suited, when a king hit the flop.
Next victim Curt Kohlberg, who had lost a chip lead of over 5 million chips just a while ago. was busted out also by Scotty. Josh Arieh bust out Eric Hershler after winning a flip of K-J against A-T. The last hand of the day was between Arieh (T-T), Shawn Buchanan (Q-Q) and Joe Cassidy (K-J). Cassidy and Buchanan were both all in when Arieh got them covered, but Buchanan’s queens held up and Cassidy was sent to the rail in 7th place.
The winner of the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic will win a $1,428,430 first prize.
Here is the official chip count and the seating of the final table:
Seat 1: Daniel Alaei - 3,925,000
Seat 2: Faraz Jaka - 5,385,000
Seat 3: Josh Arieh - 1,710,000
Seat 4: Steve O’Dwyer - 1,050,000
Seat 5: Scotty Nguyen - 4,900,000
Seat 6: Shawn Buchanan - 2,800,000
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