Quang Ming Nguyen

Hand #21: Quang Ming Nguyen looked down at A Q on the button and made it 600,000. Shintaro Sato defended his big blind holding 9 8 .

They went to a flop of K K 8 , where Sato led out for 500,000 with his eight. Nguyen called and then made a pair on the Q turn, which both players checked.

A 9 on the river saw Sato check and Nguyen bet 1,100,000. Sato grabbed a stack of 500,000-chip plaques and instantly slid them into the pot, putting Nguyen all in.

Nguyen didn't need to think for too long before he called for his last 3,100,000 to double up to around 11,000,000.