Wongwichit and Sau Chop; Soyza Wins from Chao; Ho Shoves on Wongwichit
Phachara Wongwichit opened the action with a raise to 6,500 from the cutoff and Ho Yin Sau moved all-in from the small blind for 32,000 in total. After asking for a count Wongwichit made the call and the cards were turned over.
Ho Yin Sau: 
Phachara Wongwichit: 
Sau was the at-risk player, but being as both he and Wongwichit held the same hand the result was more likely than not to be a chop and that’s exactly what happened when the board ran out 
and the pot was divvied up.
There was a bit of blind and ante stealing for an orbit and then Percy Chao opened the action with a raise to 7,000 on Michael Soyza’s big blind, and the two are two of the bigger stacks so it came as no surprise to see the Malaysian make the call and it was heads-up to a flop of 
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Soyza checked the action over to Chao, who checked it back and the 
came off on the turn. This brought a bet of 15,000 from Soyza and Chao immediately released his hand.
It was Wongwichit who was the next aggressor, and the Thai player opened to 6,000 from middle position the following hand. Action folded round to Ka Meng Ho who did not take long to move all-in for 52,500 in total.
Wonwichit asked for a count but decided to let this one go leaving Ho free to rake in the pot and pad out his stack a little.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
132,000 | 15,000 |
|
98,000 | -6,000 |
|
80,000 | -17,600 |
|
63,000 | -14,000 |
flop over to Soyza, who continuation bet 6,000, which Chao called. The 
turn brought checks from both players and after the 
river completed the hand Chao opened for 22,000 and Soyza folded immediately. Chao climbed to 97,000 after the hand while Soyza looked to have around 120,000.
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river is a blank if ever we saw one and Chao checked again, opening the door for Lee to bet big and he duly did so, making it 19,500, which was enough to get Chao to give it up.
turn and 
river kept him in the lead, though Nick Wong scared the hell out of him on the river by jokingly declaring he had a flush. The look on Lee's face was priceless and when Wong was done laughing his ass off he shipped Lee the double-up and play resumed. Unfortunately for Wong he could not recover from this setback and departed shortly afterward to bring play down to a single 9-handed table.
ahead of Wong’s 
until the flop fell 
turn was no good the 
river was just what he needed and Lee climbed to 35,000 while Wong took the hit god naturedly and dropped to 91,000.
river Sau decided to bet 5,000 into the 1,200 side pot. Joey Wong made the call and Nick Wong folded. Sau had 
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for a rivered two pair. Wong mucked and dropped to 19,300 while Tso is one of the big stacks now with 85,300.