Lifu Doubles Through Qien, Li Snatches Lead

Both of the table short stacks Weizhou Zha and Simon Burns have moved all in a couple of times apiece to take down the blinds and antes and both are sitting on roughly 850,000 each.

Liu Lifu was only narrowly ahead of the pair but has just earned a double at the expense of Huang Qien. Pre-flop it was Qien who was the aggressor, moving all-in for 2 million from the small blind when the action was folded around to him.

Liu sat back in his chair and rolled his eyes. Eventually though we could see the point he decided to go for it as his demeanour changed and he sat forward and pushed in his chips.

Liu Lifu:
Huang Qien:

While Lifu had the lead it was a 60/40 and those can easily be lost. However, the flop kept Lifu’s nose in front and with the turn and river not changing anything he doubled to 1.95 million while Qien dropped to 1 million.

The break started shortly after this hand, but not before Michael Soyza and Longyun Li played a decent sized pot that saw the latter seize the lead once more.

Pre-flop it was Soyza who was the initial raiser, attacking Weizhou Zha's big blind once again, only it was Li who played back at him from the small blind, making it 525,000 to go. Zha folded but Soyza made the call and it was heads up to a flop of .

That's a re-raiser's flop if ever we have seen one, and Li thought so too, leading out for 500,000 and Soyza folded immidiately. All that excitment brings us to the second break of teh day - chip counts to follow.