Jiang and Sun Play Big Early Pot

We are now up to 49 runners with Hong Kong’s Sparrow Cheung another who wants a second chance at making Day 2 after busting near the close of the first starting flight.

Cheung had not long taken his seat before a big pot played out on his table, but the Hong Kong player was just a spectator as Yunsheng Sun and Qifeng Jiang became embroiled in a sizable early pot.

Pre-flop it was Sun who started the ball rolling with an under-the-gun raise to 300, only to see neighbor Jiang re-pop it to 900. The rest of the table got out of the way and Sun made the call to take the action heads-up to a flop.

With Sun losing the pre-flop initiative he opted to check the action over to Jiang, who fired for 1,100. Sun made the call and the landed on the turn.

This brought a second check from Sun and a slightly larger bet of 2,100 from Jiang, which Sun again called.

The river saw Sun attempt to get creative as he first checked the action over to Jiang, who loaded up the third barrel and shot out a 3,500 river bet. Sun now chose to check-raise to 12,800 in total to send Jiang deep into the think tank, where he remained for a good minute or so.

Eventually, he decided that he was willing to go all the way and moved the remainder of his chips into the middle of the table for an all-in bet of 25,700.

Sun folded extremely quickly, tapping the table as he did so and dropped down to 10,200 while Jiang stacked up to 51,500.