Zha Wins a Small One, Luo Becomes First Official Casualty
A small pot just played out over on table three with Wang Zuo opening the action from early position and picking up three callers with Weizhou Zha (hi-jack), Danny Tang (cutoff) and new entry Yuan Li all coming along for the ride.
With four players seeing the 
flop all of them seemed reluctant to bet and the action was checked around to the 
turn, completing a possible diamond flush.
It was all check once more and the dealer flipped over the 
river to complete the hand. Action checked around to Weizhou Zha who took a stab for 6,000 with Danny Tang the only caller.
Zha turned over 
and he scoops the pot while Tang is now perilously short with just 21,000 in chips.
No sooner had this hand concluded before we had the first official casualty, and with the re-entry period now over Xixiang Luo is out for the second and final time.
Pre-flop it was Luo who was the initial aggressor, and while we missed the betting Taiwan’s Pete Chen was on hand to run us through the action. Luo opened with a raise from early position and Tang Tian Yuan made the call in late position to take the action heads-up to a flop of 
.
Luo continuation bet, Yuan called and the 
hit the turn. We believe this is when all the chips went in with Luo, holding pocket sixes, in the lead with a set up against the 
of Wu who was drawing extremely live with both a flush and gutshot straight draw.
The river was the 
completing Yuan’s spade flush and when the stacks were counted down it looked like Yuan had Luo covered. Luo headed for the exit for the second and final time and Yuan stacked up to over 160,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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160,000
72,900
|
72,900 |
|
|
131,800
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
85,100
18,600
|
18,600 |
|
44,000
44,000
|
44,000 |
|
||
|
21,000
-2,600
|
-2,600 |
|
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Busted | |
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