Soyza Gets Aggressive, Hang Retakes Lead

Michael Soyza is upping the aggression and has just won two back-to-back hands. In the first Soyza raised to 110,000 from middle position and found no customers to win the blinds and antes.

Soyza opened again for the same from early position the very next hand, only this time Huang Qien chose to defend from the big blind. Qien checked the flop over to the Malaysian, who continuation bet 115,000, which Qien called to bring in the turn.

This saw a second check from Qien and a second barrel from Soyza, this one a slightly larger 250,000. Qien asked Soyza how much more he was playing –550,000 – before thinking things over but eventually chose to fold and Soyza climbed to 1.3 million.

The next hand saw Zhong Yuan Hang make it 110,000 to go from the button and Liu Life, who has been pretty quiet so far, re-raised to 325,000. Hang looked at him suspiciously, thought it over and threw in the call.

Lifu now chose to check the monochrome flop, as did Hang and the hit the turn. Action went check, check once more and the landed on the river.

This saw Lifu check for a third time and Hang reached for chips, leading out for a hefty 400,000, which is enough to win the pot and re-seize the chip lead.