$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em

Level 3: Blinds  100/200
116 1C Entries / 326 total

During the prior level, with the board showing Gavin Smith leads out for 5,600 and Tom Nguyen (Tampa, FL) moves all in for roughly the 30k starting stack.

It doesn’t take Smith long to call and see the bad news.

Nguyen: (nut straight)
Smith: (lower straight)

Smith turned the Ten-high straight, but Nguyen has a higher straight on the river.

“I was double belly buster,” says Nguyen who hit one of his 8 outs to take the chip lead at 76k.

Nguyen’s a local grinder with more than $100,000 in career earnings with several coming here at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa.