Yu Pressure Gu

There is an awful lot of tanking going on at present with the four remaining players seemingly content to play it slow and take their time over their decisions, which means each hand is taking quite a while to play out.

Now he has the chip lead Liang Yu is turning up the heat, with the man in the pressure cooker being none other than Huidong Gu.

Gu was the protagonist in this particular hand, making it 40,000 to go from the button and both Liang Yu and Chung Yuan Yu called from the small and big blind respectively to take the action 3-way to a flop.

Gu does not look too thrilled at being called in two spots and when the action is checked over to him he tanks for a minute or so and eventually checks it back.

The turn didn’t really change anything and after both blinds check once more Gu took a stab for a rather hefty 100,000 and seemed surprised when Liang Yu made a speedy call. Chung Yuan Yu folded and it was heads-up to the river.

Now Liang Yu chose to lead and counted out a large stack of blue 5k chips for a bet of 120,000 in total. Gu, who was around 319,000 behind, does not look as though he knows what to do, and stood up in his chair for a better look at the board, before sitting back down and making another lengthy visit to the think tank. Three minutes later he let it go and Yu won a sizable pot without showdown.