Interesting Pot Sees Lam Double Through Chow
From middle position, Marc Convey raised to 425 to start off the action. Shengqing Zhu called from the cutoff seat, and Richard Chow called on the button. Then, Yue Hin Lam reraised to 1,775 from the small blind. After the big blind folded, things got a bit tricky.
The dealer began to pull in all the original bet amounts of 425. Then, Convey and Zhu called the reraise, and the dealer pulled those in, but Chow was still to act. After a couple minutes of reconstructing the pot, Chow made the call and all four saw a flop.
The flop came down 
, and action checked around to Chow. He bet 2,300, and the three-bettor Lam moved all in for 11,875. After a fold came from Convey and Zhu, Chow thought for a minute, then called.
Chow held the 
for a combo draw, but Lam had flopped trips with the 
. The table seemed to be quite surprised with the two hands that were turned over in this big, three-bet pot.
The turn was the 
, and the river was the 
. Lam's trips held up, and he won the pot to more than double his stack.
with two diamonds and Huang lead out for 1,700. The big blind called after which the initial raiser folded. On the turn a 
popped up and Huang fired out another 3,500. His opponent raised it up to 7,500 and Huang called.
, as the flush draw didn't complete. Huang checked to his opponent who bet 6,000, and Huang called. Huang did not get to claim the pot with his set of kings, as his opponent showed 
for a flopped straight.
into fellow Australian Jonathan Karamalikis. Karamalikis made the call, and the dealer placed the 
out on the river. Demlakian fired 2,100, and Karamalikis made the call.
for trip eights with ace-queen high. Karamalikis showed the 
for a full house, eights over deuces, and he pulled in the pot.
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flop with two spades holding 
, and his check-raise was called. On the turn a 
giving him a straight. The young Aussie pro doubled up, and is back up to the starting stack.