Alvarado and Zha Tangle
With over US$3.8 million in career tournament winnings, we think that it’s fair to say that Mexico’s JC Alvarado is one of the more accomplished players in the field. Alvarado was one of the late sign-ups not long before the dinner break but he has already managed to run his 15,000 starting stack up to a decent amount.
However, Alvarado has just shipped some chips the way of Weizhou Zha, who does not look like he needs any as he already has a ton.
It was Alvarado who was the aggressor in this particular hand, making it 3,400 to go from the cut off and, with chips to spare, current frontrunner Zha decided to see a flop in position and made the call from the button to take play heads-up to a monochrome flop of 
.
That brought checks from both players and the dealer burned and turned the 
, which again produced no betting.
After Alvarado checked the 
river Zha eyeballed his stack and tossed out a 5,000 bet, which Alvarado eventually called after thinking it over for a few seconds. Zha turned over 
for two pairs – sevens and queens – and Alvardo mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
157,000
44,000
|
44,000 |
|
29,000
13,000
|
13,000 |