Hue Dang soars to 1.5M, Tom Pham eliminated

Tom Pham got involved with the day’s entering chip leader Hue Dang and in the process lost it all in 22nd place. The hand opened with a raise by mp Pham, called by Dang on the small blind. At the flop 10♦ 9♦ 4♥, Dang checked, Pham bet, Dang raised to 100k, Pham called. On the turn A♠, Dang checked, Pham shoved his 397k stack, Dang called. Pham had 10♥ 8♥ mid pair and was drawing dead to Dang’s 9♠ 9♣ set. The river was 5♣.

Dang catapulted to 1.56M and is the overwhelming chip leader. Down to 21 players.