WATCH: Poker Player Correctly Folds Full House On $25,000 Tournament Money BubbleFrance's Thi Xoa Nguyen Lays Down Queens Full Against Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Who Showed Aces Full |
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The $25,000 PokerStars NL Hold’em Players Championship drew a record-setting field of 1,039 entries to create a prize pool worth over $26 million. The largest $25,000 buy-in tournament in poker history will see the top 181 finishers make the money, with a min-cash of $25,450 and a top prize of $5.1 million.
Late on day 2 as the field approached the money bubble, there were only 220 players remaining when a crazy hand played out on the PokerStars TV live stream. Before the broadcast picked up the hand Thi Xoa Nguyen (pictured above) had raised from the button with the A
Q
and two-time WSOP bracelet winner Athanasios Polychronopoulos reportedly three-bet to 37,000 from the big blind with the A
A.
The flop came down K
Q9 and both players checked. The Q on the turn gave Nguyen trips, and she bet 17,000 after Polychronopoulos checked for a second time. He made the call and the A completed the board, giving both players a full house.
Polychronopoulos checked for a third time, having made aces full on the river. Nguyen cut out a bet of 50,000 and slid it into the pot. Polychronopoulos then moved all-in, having Nguyen’s remaining stack of around 150,000 well covered.
After deep consideration, Nguyen folded her queens full of aces face up. As the pot was being shipped over to Polychronopoulos, he was kind enough to show his pocket aces and let her know that she had indeed made a spectacular laydown.
Check out the hand below.
ICYMI: 2019 is only a week old, but Thi Xua Nguyen has already locked up fold of the year.
She made this incredible laydown on Day 2 of the #PSPC. pic.twitter.com/wwDVzauzNn— PokerStars LIVE (@PokerStarsLIVE) January 8, 2019
The money bubble burst a few hours into day 3 of the PSPC. Both Nguyen and Polychronopoulos made the money, with Polychronopoulos sitting among the largest stacks in the tournament midway through the day. Nguyen finished 153rd for $25,450.
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