Dong Dips into his Bag of Tricks

One thing we have noticed about Gui Dong is that he like to play a lot of pots early and seems to thrive off the action. It should come as no surprise then, that the Chinese player has been extremely active and we caught him in action in two big back-to-back hands.

In the first Dong was battling against Vietnam’s Thinh Nguyen Chi when we arrived at the table with the action already at the river and 20,000 already in the pot with the community cards reading .

Sitting in the big blind Dong was first to act, and with just 15,075 left in his stack, he decided to pull the trigger and move all-in to send Chi deep into the tank, where he remained for several minutes until one of the other players at the table called for the clock.

Chi eventually folded with seconds to spare leaving Dong to rake in the pot and climb to 37,200 while the Vietnamese player dropped to just under 30,000 in chips.

Chi raised the very next hand, making it 500 to go from the cutoff with Hong Kong’s Liu Yueming (cutoff) and the button making the call before Dong was at it again, squeezing to 2,100 from the small blind.

Chi folded immediately but Yueming made the call and after the button also folded the action went heads-up to a flop of , which Dong led for 2,700.

Yueming made the call once more to bring play to the turn, which brought a check from Dong. Yueming reached for chips and bet out 4,500. It appeared that Dong was just playing possum and he swiftly check-raised to 11,500 in total, bring a speedy fold from Yueming who dropped to 20,000 after the hand, while Dong climbed to 47,500.