Jun Doubles Through Gu
We caught a huge hand to end level 10 and bring us into the last level of the day with China’s Bao Jun and Macau’s Huidong Gu doing battle in a hand that started five minutes before the end of level 10 and finished five minutes into level 11 after all the thinking and bantering that went on.
Pre-flop it was Jun who was the initial aggressor, opening to 2,700 from middle position. Gu, sitting to Jun’s direct left, peeked down at his cards and immediately announced ‘raise’ making it 8,100 to go.
Action folded back around to Jun who reached for chips, but they were for raising with and he three-bet to 18,200 only to see Gu instantly jam the rest of his sizable stack (he started with around 122,000) into the center of the table.
Jun rocked back in his chair and the two started jabbering away in Mandarin, and while we don’t speak it, poker is the same in any language and Jun was quizzing Gu intently about what he had, guessing that it was probably ace-king and he said as much.
The call was for Jun’s tournament life but he chose to make it, turning over 
and his guess about Gu’s hand was spot on as the Macanese player turned over 
and it was off to the races.
The board ran out 
and Jun nearly had a heart attack when he saw paint on the river thinking it was a king, but fortunately for the Chinese player it was the 
to grant him a timely double, and all that action concluded the level.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
98,600
98,600
|
98,600 |
|
74,500
-68,000
|
-68,000 |