08-22-2009 20:14 UTC+8

Chris Chau Catches a Lucky Card

[user75032]

Desperate with just 42,000 chips in his stack, Chris Chau opened all in from under the gun. Small blind Kentaro Araki re-raised to 102,000 in a bid to isolate and dipatch Chau. That move disappointed Winfred Yu, who was forced to fold a medium ace. After he folded Chau opened an ace of his own, {A-Clubs}

{A-Clubs}

{5-Clubs}

, against Araki's {8-Diamonds}

{8-Diamonds}

{8-Spades}

. So it was very unlucky for Araki (or very lucky for Chau) that the flop came {7-Diamonds}

{7-Diamonds}

{k-Spades}

{A-Spades}

to give Chau a pair of a ces. Running jacks on the turn and river changed nothing. Chau doubled up.

Tags: Chris Chau Kentaro Araki