Lee Takes From Romain, Torbergsen Halts Slide
We are now up to five tables and 27 players with France’s Arnaud Romain one of the new arrivals, though unfortunately the Frenchman has got off to a shaky start.
We caught Romain in action in a heads-up pot against China’s Chiming Lee on a flop of 
just as Lee (big blind) checked the action over to Romain, who, sitting in middle position, appeared to have been the pre-flop aggressor and now led out for a bet of 3,000 into a pot of roughly the same.
Lee responded with a check-raise to 10,500, which Romain quickly called and the dealer burned and turned the 
, which brought checks from both players.
The 
river paired the board and with just over 24,000 in blinds and antes in the pot, Lee now led for a hefty 15,000. Romain did not take long to make the call and looked shocked when Lee rolled over 
for rivered trip sixes, eventually pitching his cards into the muck face down and dropping down to 18,875 while Lee climbed to 64,000.
Another player whose tournament now appears to be going in the right direction is Norway’s Marius Torbergsen, who has halted his early slide by taking down a pot from Craig Hartman.
Pre-flop it was Zuo Wang who was the pre-flop aggressor, making it 1,000 to go from the cut-off and finding a caller in Hartman on the button before Tobergsen squeezed to 3,800 from the small blind.
After big blind Su Hao got out of the way and Wang also folded the action went heads-up to a flop of 
, which Torbergsen took down with a pot-sized continuation bet after Hartman folded immediately.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
64,000 | 64,000 |
|
57,000 | 16,000 |
|
30,000 | 5,000 |
|
18,875 | 18,875 |
, which brought a check from Yu and a 500 continuation bet from O’Dwyer, which Yu quickly called.
river with Yu being the first to show his hand, taking down the 2,750 pot with 
with over 6,000 already in the pot just as Torbergsen (big blind) checked the action over to Tan on the button, who fired for 3,000, which after some deliberation Torbergsen called.
river saw the Norwegian player check the action over to Tan once again, and the Chinese player quickly tossed out a bet of 10,500 into a pot of a little over 12,000. With around 25,000 left in his stack, Torbergsen had a decision to make but eventually elected to fold leaving Tan to rake in the pot and climb to 80,000, which makes him the current chip leader, though it is still early days.
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landing on the turn and the 
river completing the hand. Chan rolled over 
, which was enough to take down the hand after Wu mucked.
flop over to O’Dwyer, who chose to continuation bet 700 into the 1,000-pot with Greenwood tossing out a quick call.