Khoi Le Nguyen Stuns Parents with $50k SHR Victory Story – VIP-Grinders

There are all the time a couple of ‘unknowns’ within the nosebleed MTTs, wealthy recs or gamers taking a shot at larger stakes. Khoi Le Nguyen’s cause for enjoying was moderately totally different:

“I had a take a look at the numbers on the Vietnamese Hendon Mob chart, and I estimate that if this occasion has sufficient registration and I occur to win it, then I is likely to be Vietnamese primary,” he informed reporters. “So I assumed, let’s simply do it, no matter.”

Nguyen was amongst 252 entries forking out $50k a pop for the privilege to play for WSOP gold and a share of $11,970,000. Naturally, the world’s greatest had been all eager to play nevertheless it wasn’t all plain crusing…

Busted!

Motoki Jinno was on tilt, as we reported beforehand, and that spelled unhealthy luck for Alex Foxen, all of the chips getting into pre-flop…

Alex Foxen: A♣ Ok♥Motoki Jinno: J♠ 6♠

If the desk was shocked to see Jinno desk the J6, they had been shocked when the flop appeared…

Flop: J♣ 6♥ 6♦

Flip: 2♥

River: 8♥

Foxen would hearth a second bullet, nonetheless, and finally make a tiny revenue.

Day 2 noticed a number of massive names exit earlier than the cash bubble, Phil Hellmuth amongst them…

Phil Hellmuth: 5♥ 5♠Albert Daher: Ok♦ J♦

Flop: Ok♣ J♥ 8♠  

Flip: J♠

River: 3♥

Others to fall included Daniel Negreanu, Bryn Kenney, John Hennigan, Brian Rast, Jason Koon, Martin Kabrhel and Phil Ivey.

Within the Cash!

Those that made it to the paid spots however in need of a last desk look included:

Alex Foxen (thirty eighth for $102,024)Kristen Foxen (twenty ninth for $102,024)Shaun Deeb (nineteenth for $123,068)Masashi Oya (14th for $144,985)

On the last desk, Sam Soverel had a torrid time, first utilizing 9 (9!) time extensions earlier than calling and shedding an enormous chunk of his stack to Zamani. Then he ran J♥ J♦ into Fahredin Mustafov’s Q♦ Q♣ and was out in ninth for $216,467.

Mustafov additionally ousted Wantman in eighth after which Zamani fell, adopted to the rail by Mustafov himself in sixth leaving 5 contenders for the $2.7million first prize.

Whereas the Essential Occasion continues to be going sturdy, there’s a $50K Excessive Curler Last Desk with 5 left, together with Sergio Aido (@petgaming)

Each he and Alexandre Reard are in search of bracelet quantity 3. Reard is at present within the lead with Aido in third place.#WSOP2025 pic.twitter.com/5gT6KggghL

— WSOP – World Collection of Poker (@WSOP) July 12, 2025

The three 7-figure cashes went to Aido, Reard and Nguyen, with the Spanish professional taking third spot after staking his brief stack pre…

Sergio Aido: Ok♠ 2♥Khoi Le Nguyen: A♣ 9♣

Flop: Q♥ Q♣ 10♣

Flip: 7♥

River: Ok♣

The heads-up battle all got here down to at least one large hand which grew from inauspicious beginnings:

Khoi Le Nguyen: 4♣ 3♣ 

Alexandre Reard: 5♠ 4♦

Nguyen defended his massive blind…

Flop: 3♠ 4♥ 9♠

…then check-raised the flop.

Flip: 2♣

Nguyen’s continuation guess was jammed on by Reard and Nguyen referred to as with two pair.

River: :Xx:

The river brick gave Nguyen a 40:1 chip lead and he transformed on the very subsequent hand to seal the most important win of his brief profession.

Last Desk Outcomes

1

Khoi Le Nguyen

Vietnam

$2,686,913

2

Alexandre Reard

France

$1,791,267

3

Sergio Aido

Spain

$1,242,660

4

Jun Obara

Japan

$879,939

5

Vinny Lingham

USA

$636,279

6

Fahredin Mustafov

Bulgaria

$470,036

7

Martin Zamani

USA

$354,901

8

Matthew Wantman

USA

$274,023

9

Sam Soverel

USA

$216,467

Having achieved his aim of topping the Vietnamese Hendon Mob listings, Nguyen defined he’d now have to inform his dad and mom about his profession selection:

“…my dad and mom don’t even know I play poker!”

“It’s fairly humorous as a result of my dad and mom don’t even know I play poker. I don’t assume I can cover from that now, perhaps they’ll get the information and we’ll see how they react.”

Andrew Burnett

Skilled Poker Journalist

An avid poker participant, he goals of someday taking part in the WSOP Essential Occasion and has promised himself he’ll fold aces and kings if he will get them on the primary hand to keep away from front-page headlines. [more]