Well, if there’s a blogging equivalent of the commentator’s curse, that was it.

Yen-Jung Chen, whose stack had dwindled in the last couple of orbits, shoved his remaing 60,000 and was called by Ueli Munoz.

Yen-Jung Chen:

Ueli Munoz:

Chen’s fortunes looked to have taken an upturn when the flop came . But a on the turn brought in some extra outs for Munoz.

Sure enough, a fell on the river to end Chen’s tournament run. It was a cruel way to go but to make your live poker debut at such a prestigous event, and then to make the money — Chen should be proud of the way he has performed.

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