A Storm Over the Atlantic

This looks like our last opportunity to get in a cheeky ocean pun and [Removed:151] has just run into a bit of a brutal cooler to bring his Day 1B to an end.

It all started with a Sam Cheong limp from under-the-gun and action folded around to Chang on the button, who squeezed his cards before raising to 1,600. Cheong pulled out the limp check-raise for the second time today (he folded the last time he did this and got re-raised) and made it 3,200 to go.

Both Chang and Cheong are the two short stacks so you can see where this is going. Chang moved all-in for 7,650 in total and Cheong beat him into the pot.

Sam Cheong:
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That’s a pretty brutal setup hand if ever we have seen one and the board ran out to give Cheong a much-needed double-up and leave Chang with a bowl of rice – a paltry 275 in chips.

This was all in the middle the next hand after Fat Cheong Wong limped in early position and Wingkei Chan made the call. Justin Chan called from the button, as did blinds Chunkit Leung and Sam Cheung and it was six-way to a flop of .

Action checked around to Justin Chan on the button, and he made it 1,000 to go. The table folded back around to Wingkei Chan, who looked tempted but eventually thought better of it and folded, leaving Chan to win the 300 side pot and the cards were turned over.

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Justin Chan:

While Chang had paired his three Chan had flopped top two and the turn left Chang drawing dead, with the river giving Chan a boat, just to twist the knife. Chang is out and Chan is up to 18,525.