Khatri Folds Under Pressure

Bhavin Khatri opened the action with a raise to 25,000 in middle position and received a call from Yake Wu in the hijack. The next two players folded before Ludovic Geilich called from the small blind. Action was then on Yunye Lu in the big blind and he defended as well to take action four ways to a flop of .

Action checked to Khatri and he made a continuation-bet of 43,000. Wu folded, Geilich called, and Lu folded.

The turn came with action heads up and both players checked, bringing the river . Geilich reached for chips, grabbing his stack of T25,000 chips and sliding them forward across the felt. It was more than enough to put Khatri all in for his last 248,000.

Khatri thought for over a minute, using two time extensions to consider the decision he was faced with for his tournament life. Eventually, he folded, deciding to wait for a better time to commit the rest of his chips. Meanwhile, Geilich finds himself back over 1 million after winning the pot sans showdown.