Double for Duong; Hikosaka Pays Off Chen

We missed it as were typing up another hand, but the short-stacked Thin Tin Duong has managed to earn a double-up. Duong is still the table short stack with 33,000 but has a little more breathing room than the last time we checked.

Blinds had just climbed to 800/1,600 but we caught a four-way hand at the very end of level ten to wind up the level.

There was already 12,000 in blinds and antes in the middle and action hand just been checked by Keisuke Hikosaka (small blind), Sio Fat Lau (big blind) and Yao Jin Chen (under-the-gun) over to Duong on the button.

Though he looked tempted, Duong resisted the urge to shove after spending several minutes in the tank and the landed on the turn.

This brought a bet of 4,000 from Hikosaka and a call from Lau before Chen juiced it up to 16,000 in total. Duong folded quickly while Hikosaka made the call and Lau also bowed out to take the action heads-up to the river.

Hikosaka thought it over and then checked to Chen, who looked like he was going to bet but thought better of it at the last second and checked it back.

Hikosaka turned over but this was not enough to beat Chen’s and the Chinese player edged into a slender lead of 101,000 to Hikosaka’s 98,000.