Ruan Folds Out Zhang, Leow Still Leading
Over on the feature table on the stage, Malaysia's Ivan Leow has been busy building his stack to extend his lead to 790,000 in chips. We were unable to catch Leow in action but caught Wayne Wei Yi Zhang and Jiayu Ruan tangling in a hand.
It was Zhang who was the initial aggressor, making it 18,000 to go from the lo-jack, only to see Ruan pop it up to 51,000 from the cutoff. Zhang gave him a surreptitious sidelong stare and counted out the calling chips and it was off to a flop of 
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The power of both position and a continuation bet of 55,000 was enough to award Ruan the pot when Zhang checked the action over, with the Chinese player sliding his cards into the muck after a few seconds thinking it over. Zhang dropped to 480,000 while Ruan has almost doubled the stack he began the day with and is now sitting on 350,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
790,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
480,000
-42,000
|
-42,000 |
|
350,000
159,000
|
159,000 |