Xu Wins Three-way, Huge Cooler for Cheung to Close Day
While there were several more crazy hands that occurred while we were watching the following dramas unfold (we know because we could hear lots of shouting) but we could not get them all. We did save the best for last, however.
There was a flurry of cards, chips and a great deal of excited shouting as we made our way over to Huidong Gu’s table, and while the Macanese player was not involved in the hand he was certainly enjoying his front row seat.
Three players were on their feet with their hands face-up on the felt and there were cards and chips scattered all over the table. The only player we recognised in the hand was He Xu, which was extremely fortunate as he actually won, and his two opponents stalked off scowling so hard after the dust settled that we did not have the heart to ask them who they were – after all, busting right at the close of the day is not really that much fun…
All the chips had gone in pre-flop and Xu had both other players covered and was holding 
, the first of Xu’s unfortunate opponents had 
and the other had 
and the dealer had just spread the 
flop, which was what all the shouting was about as Xu had gone from favourite to underdog extremely quickly.
However, the timely appearance of the 
gave He top pair and the lead in the hand and with no spade, nine or ace making an unwelcome appearance on the river Xu busted both unfortunate opponents and finished the day with 73,200.
There was another huge roar from across the card room and we arrived in time to see Sparrow Cheung and Li Zu Jie involved in a pre-flop all-in confrontation.
Sparrow Cheung: 
Li Zu Jie:
Jie was the at-risk player and while this sort of confrontation usually results in a chop that was not the case here and we caught the action on the turn with the board reading 
.
Cheung did not look too happy with the way things had turned out, almost as if he could tell what was going to happen next. You guessed it, the river was a heart, the to be exact, which brought a fist pump and ecstatic cry of ‘Yes!’ from Jie and a huge groan from Cheung. Jie finished on 53,000 and while Cheung did not bust, he did not have all that many chips left either. There will be full chip counts to follow shortly, but all that action concludes the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
73,200 | 73,200 |
|
|
53,000 | 53,000 |