Zha Coolers Luo

It looks like the dealer has been keeping the deck in the freezer as a huge cooler of a hand has just played out between Xixiang Luo and Weizhou Zha that has brought the former’s tournament to an abrupt end.

Pre-flop it was Hong Kong’s Ben Lai who was the initial aggressor, opening the action to 1,300 from middle position. Action folded around to Zha in the small blind who asked Lai how much he was playing – still the 50k start stack – before choosing to re-raise to 3,250 in total.

Luo, sitting in the big blind, then decided to cold three-bet to 11,000. Lai quickly folded but Zha made the call to take the action heads-up to a flop.

Zha checked it over to Luo, who fired for 10,000. However, it appeared Zha’s check was just a trap and he quickly check-raised to 25,000 in total.

Luo did not take long to move the rest of his chips into the middle for an all-in of just 32,300 in total and was beaten into the pot by Zha, who proudly tabled .

Luo did not look too happy, turning over a dominated . It’s pretty hard to get away from kings versus aces, especially when both players are in the blinds but that will be of scant solace to Luo who could not find any help when the turn and river completed the hand.