Wang Starts Well
More players are beginning to trickle in now and the action is slowly coming to the boil. We caught a sizable pot brewing pre-flop between Neel Murthy and tablemate Yang Wang, both players becoming embroiled in a raising war.
We are not sure what the initial open was for, but by the time we arrived Murthy, sitting in the hi-jack has a bet totalling 3,200 out in front of him and Yang, sitting in the cutoff, has a blue 1k chip out on the felt in front of him.
Yang announced a raise and pumped it up to 7,600 in total, sending Murthy deep into the tank for a good few minutes but he eventually elected to make the call.
While the 
rainbow board is a little connected it is not really the best flop for the majority of unpaired three and four bet raising hands. This did not deter Murthy though, who fired out a bet of 3,500 into the 15k-plus pot.
Yang did not take long to raise, making it 8,325 to go and Murthy looked less than thrilled about it but did give it up.
“I folded ace-king man, good for you,” he bantered.
Yang shot him a cheeky grin and raked in the sizable pot, climbing to 42,000 while Murthy takes an early hit and drops to 18,200.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
42,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
18,200
18,200
|
18,200 |