Small Loss for Timex
Level 2
: 5,000/10,000, 0 ante
Folded around to Mike McDonald in the cutoff and he would open it up to 30,000. Only Chunlei Zhou called out of the small blind and a flop was spread on the felt. Zhou quickly bet 35,000 here and after studying his opponent a little, McDonald made the call. On the turn, McDonald's opponent bet again, this time making it 60,000 to go. McDonald again called and a completed the board on the river.
Zhou opted to make it a third bullet here, betting 110,000. McDonald decided to let his hand go here and sent the pot to Zhou. Despite losing this small pot, McDonald's stack is still around the 1 million that he started with.