Kun and Luyckx Chop, Chan Busts

An interesting hand played out between Wang Kun and Bart Luyckx over on table four, with Yuan Li sparking the fuse with a pre-flop min-raise raise from the cutoff.

Kun cam over the top from the button for 30,000 and action folded around to Luyckx in the big blind, who peeked down at his hold cards and then moved all-in for around 95,000.

Li quickly got out of the way and Kun had a decision to make as the call would be for his tournament life should he chose to make it. Make it he did however and the cards were turned over.

Wang Kun:
Bart Luyckx:

Kun found himself in bad shape but the flop was an extremely sweaty to give him the open-ended straight draw to go with his two jack outs. Luyckx looked distinctly unhappy when the rolled off on the turn to give Kun the lead but the poker gods were just toying with both player’s emotions and the river gave both players’s the straight and they chopped up the pot.

An unhappy looking Arnold Chan then wandered past the table as the pot was being divvied up and was kind enough to tell us his tale of woe.

Chan had got his last 40,000 in pre-flop with pocket tens and been looked up by Richard Ma, who had ace-queen. The flop came low and raggedy and while there was some paint on the turn it was a king to keep Chan in the lead.

However, disaster struck on the river with an ace hitting the board to crush Chan’s Main Event hopes and Ma stacked up to 150,000.