Laoyont Doubles Through Chen

Jo Snell has been amassing chips and looks to be the current frontrunner with a stack of 450,000 or so, and we caught Snell, Patrick Laoyont and Cameron Chen involved in a hand that proved to be quite exciting.

Following an early position raise, Snell made the call from middle position before Patrick Laoyont moved all-in over the top for 50,300.

"You do what you have to Pat," quipped Snell.

Action folded around to Cameron Chen in the small blind and after asking for a count of Layont's stack, he pulled the trigger for 75,000 in total and action was back on the original raiser who had a decision to make.

"I don't mind a triple-up bro," said Laoyont as the player in question mulled over his options. Eventually, the original raiser mucked, as did Snell and Laoyont and Chen were heads-up and revealed their holdings.

Cameron Chen:
Patrick Laoyont:

Laoyont had already got up and started packing up his stuff, but seemed happy enough to be in such good shape.

"C'mon the ladies," he said and the dealer ran out the board, which saw Laoyont climb to 110,000 after the hand, while Chen dropped down to 20,000.

Snell told the table afterwards he would have made top two with king-ten, so it was a good thing for Laoyont that there was all that action, or he could well have been hitting the rail instead of stacking up chips.