Lai Cripples Fong, Zhang Administers Coup de Grace

We caught the tail end of a chunky pot that played out between Hong Kong's Ben Lai and fellow countryman Kenji Fong that left that latter on life support, with China's Wan Zhang flicking the off switch on Fong's ventilator immediately afterward.

It was Lai who was the initial aggressor, making it 900 to go from the cutoff, with Fong making the call from the big blind to take play heads-up to a flop of .

Fong check-called Lai's 1,300 continuation bet and the dealer burned and turned the , which was a real action card as will become apparent, but the action went check, check.

The river was where all the fireworks happened, with Fong now leading for 10,000, eliciting a speedy shove from Lai. Fong had him covered by just 200 chips and made the call, only to discover his turned set had been rivered by Lai's speculative with the latter making the wheel to climb up to 60,000.

Fong's last 200 was all-in from the small blind the next hand, with Lai looking to isolate with a hijack raise to 900. However, button Wan Zhang re-raised to 3,200, which was enough to get Lai to bow out and take the hand heads-up.

Kenji Fong:
Wan Zhang,

Fong was in bad shape, and while he hit top pair on the flop, the rest of the runout came and respectively to send Fong to the rail and see Zhang stack up to 55,000.