Zha Shoves on Li, Three No Shows

The recently arrived Yuan Li is trying to get something going over on table three but has just been shut down by Weizhou Zha.

Pre-flop Li opened the action from under-the-gun with a raise to 3,600 with both Peter Chan and Qiang Lin making the call before Zha squeezed all in for over 80,000 from the small blind.

Li looked sorely tempted but being as the call would be for his tournament life he opted to let it go, as did the other two protagonists and Zha padded out his stack a little more, all without showdown.

While HK$80,000 is not an insignificant sum of money for some, for the High Rollers it’s chump change and there are three no shows so far today with Xiang Qi, Qiant Liu and Luo Xi all failing to turn up.

According to James Chen they were all playing ridiculously big cash games until 9am this morning (Chen included). While Qi and Liu are both short – Qi began play with less than the 50,000 start stack and Liu only had 23,500 – Xi started play with 149,000 and change.

All three stacks are sitting forlornly at the table with no player to pilot them at present and are being blinded out.