Toronto, Canada's Xiaohu Chen took down the second event of the 2015 Western New York Poker Challenge in the early morning hours Sunday.
Chen bested a field of 117 entries to book the $15,242 win, including a tough final table he shared with Event #1 winner Jerry Calvaneso.
In fact, it was Calvaneso that really put Chen in great position to win it all when the two tangled in a massive pot during seven-handed play that saw Calvaneso shove with big slick on a queen-high board and Chen make the game-changing call with jacks.
By the time he got heads up with Jason Stockfish, Chen held 2.1 million of the 3.5 million chips in play and made short work of the Cleveland native, calling with second pair against bottom pair and a combo draw that never materialized. With that, Chen became the champion of Event #2.
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Xiaohu Chen made it 60,000, Jerry Calvaneso re-popped to 150,000 and Chen made the call.
The flop came and after a Chen check, Calvaneso shipped it in for almost 320,000. Chen flipped over two jacks before acting. He was given a warning for exposing his hand, but after a good four minutes in the tank, he made the call.
Calvaneso held and blanked on the turn and the river to go broke seventh.
It was another 13 hour day of poker for Calvaneso with a much different result than his victory in Event #1 last night, but still an impressive two-day run for the Grand Island, NY native.
Sammy Iraci has vaulted near the top of the chip counts and Carl Sellars and Travell Thomas are both out.
Thomas shipped it short, getting called in three spots. The flop thinned the herd a bit as Iraci bet 40,000 and only Sellars called. Iraci checked the turn and called when Sellars bet 50,000.
Iraci then shipped the river and Sellars called off the last of his stack. Iraci was the only one to show with and took it down.
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