Shorthanded Fun
There have been quite a few pots played being as the action is short-handed, but there have been no particularly significant changes to the pecking order. Pete Chen increased his stack slightly to climb to a little over 33,000 by pushing Justin Chan off a hand, but the Hong Kong player took all those chips back but a few more an orbit later to return the stack sizes to close to what all three players began the level with.
Sam Cheong and Chan played a hand after Cheong opened the action from the button with a raise to 2,800 and Chan chose to defend from the big blind. Chen check called Cheong’s 3,000 c-bet on a flop of 
, which slowed the Macanese player down a little and both players checked the 
turn and td] river.
Chan turned over 
for a pair of eights, but this was not enough to beat Cheong’s 
so Cheong padded out his stack slightly with the last three players stacking up as follows:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
94,000 | -1,000 |
|
79,000 | 4,000 |
|
22,000 | -3,000 |