Gu Plays Back at Hu
Haoyu Hu is leveraging his monster stack and has been pressuring the rest of his table relentlessly. Eventually it looked like big blind Zhenyu Gu had had enough and decided to defend his big blind from a Hu button raise.
Hu had just taken down the previous two pots uncontested pre-flop with some aggressive betting and was attempting to make it three from three, making his standard open to 5,800.
Gu looked sceptically over at Hu, peeked at his cards and then counted out some raising chips, making it 15,900 to go, leaving himself 74,000 behind. Hu checked out Gu’s stack and with chips to spare decided to take a look at a flop and made the call and the dealer spread the 
community cards.
That’s a pretty wet board for an out of position raiser, but Gu did not look scared at all, quickly leading out for 19,000 and Hu sat back in his chair to think things over. Hu’s stack is so big it’s a wonder he can see the rest of the table from behind his chip castle and he can afford the call easily.
However, he clearly didn’t have much as chose to let it go leaving Gu to rake in a decent pot and climb to 90,000. Hu, however, has been a busy little bee and while he has his chips stacked up unevenly he still has a lot of them and looked to still be sitting on a stack excess of 400,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
400,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
90,000
30,000
|
30,000 |