Hao and Lekovic Tangle Before Break

Su Hao is keeping himself in contention and the Chinese player has taken down a decent sized pot from Predrag Lekovic just before the break.

The Montenegrin player is the shortest stack by at least 200,000 in chips, but was the aggressor in this particular hand, making it 25,000 to go on the button. Fedor Holz quickly folded the small blind but big blind Su Hao looked interested and made the call to take play heads-up to a flop of .

Hao checked the action over to Lekovic, who checked it right back and the dealer burned and turned .

Given the chance to seize the initiative in the hand Hao seemed happy to take it and fired out a bet of 85,000, which sent Lekovic into tank mode, though he did eventually make the call after a minute's careful contemplation.

The river missed both possible flush draws and saw Hao lead for a tickly 56,000 and Lekovic did not take long to let it go. The three remaining players are now on a ten-minute break.