Tang Wins Early
The majority of the players are easing into the action slowly and while we did see a sizable pot developing over on Nick Wong and Justin Chan's table it was all over by the time we got there with a player making a 15,000 re-raise to shut down the action.
Xhihong Huang tried to get something going with a 300 raise from under-the-gun only to see Australia’s David Tang come over the top from UTG+1 for 825. Action folded around to the small blind who looked sorely tempted, so tempted in fact that he made the call, as did Huang to take the action three-way to a flop of 
.
Anti-climatically this brought checks from all three players and the dealer burned and turned the 
. This brought a second check from Huang and a delayed continuation bet from Tang who fired for a pot-sized 2,600.
That was enough to deter any callers and both Tang’s opponent’s folded to award the Aussie the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
31,650 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
29,175 |