Double for Leong, Chan Takes From Behbehani, Behbehani Busts to Tang

Play had not long resumed following the break before the short-stacked Chan Wai Leong earned himself a double up at Devan Tang’s expense.

Tang limped from middle position and action folded around to Leong on the button who moved all-in for 220,000. After the blinds got out of the way Tang tossed in the calling chips but was not happy to see that Leong had him dominated and uttered an expletive in Cantonese that Salman Behbehani seemed keen to learn.

Devan Tang:
Chan Wai Leong:

Tang was calling for a chop but did not get one when the board ran out to grant Leong a much needed double and he climbed to 450,000 while Tang dropped to 225,000.

Salman Behbehani got a chance to try out his new found linguistic phrase the very next hand against Peter Chan, making it 40,000 from UTG+1 with Chan chosing to defend from the big blind.

Chan checked the flop over to Behbehani, who checked it right back and the hit the turn, which brought a bet of 40,000 from Chan.

Behbehani thought it over for a few seconds and made the call and the completed the hand, but not the betting. Chan fired out a bet of 65,000 and Behbehani made a quick call, but could only muck when Chan turned over for top pair. Chan climbed to 1,040,000 after the hand while Behbehani was looking a little short on 225,000.

This found it’s way into the middle shortly afterward when the US player moved all-in with ace-nine and ran into the ace-jack of Tang and the field is now down to 14.