Holz Wins Three of Five to Close Day 1

While we missed two of the last five hands on Fedor Holz’s table after watching the prior two big pots unfold, as the German player’s table was the last to break for the day we caught the last three hands and Holz won all of them.

The first we caught on the river in a hand between Holz and one-time chip leader Xuan Tan with the board reading just as Tan turned over for the missed flush draw and Holz showed for ace-high and a missed gutshot meaning the pot was shipped the German’s way.

Holz was on the button the very next hand, coming over the top of a Zuo Wang cutoff raise of 2,700 to the tune of 7,700 in total. After both the blinds bowed out Wang shot Holz a sceptical stare and tossed in the call to take the action heads-up to a flop of , which the Chinese player checked over to Holz.

The German did not take long to fire out a c-bet of 7,800 and Wang mucked just as quickly leaving Holz free to rake in another and he made it three from three the next hand after making it 2,700 to go from the cut off.

Both small blind Devan Tang and big blind Xuan Tan made the call to take the action three-way to a flop of with both Tang and Tan checking the flop over to Holz, who fired for a two-thirds pot sized bet, which was enough to get both players to give it up and close out the action for the day.