Ichinose Wins One; Chan Pushes off Tsang

Kosei Ichinose is in the running and is in the process of building a stack. We caught the Japanese player involved in a heads-up pot against an opponent who had defended from the big blind.

There was 26,000 already in the pot with the flop spread and the big blind had checked the action over to Kosei, who bet 8,600. Considering the size of the pot that is not a particularly big bet, but Kosei must have started telling a believable story pre-flop as his opponent eventually let it go and the Japanese player stacked up to 115,000.

On the next table over we caught Hong Kong’s Justin Chan is in action against fellow countryman Anson Tsang, who had defended his big blind against a Chan button open. There was 26,000 in the pot already and the community cards were spread and Tsang was considering calling a Chan bet of 13,300.

Eventually, Tsang decided to fight another day and laid it down, dropping to 43,300 while Chan padded out his already ample stack and climbed to 365,000.