Yu Enters, Robl Wins From Kaplan, Leow Gets One Through

Winfred Yu was regaling us with Short Deck Poker takes of sickness but not five minutes later had taken his seat over on Elton Tsang and Andrew Robl's table.

"I just can't help myself," Yu told us, just before shipping his chips in.

"Anytime I see Andrew Robl in a Short Deck game I have to join," bantered Yu good-naturedly. Robl took the jibe in the spirit it was intended and after Yu limped from the small blind, Robl called from one seat over, Elton Tsang come along for the ride, Wai Leong Chan completed the cutoff and Jaime Kaplan checked the button for a muti-way family pot.

The flop came down and Yu stuck the rest of his chips in (around 80,000) bringing folds from the rest of the table to climb to 140,000.

Andrew Robl and Jaime Kaplan played a decent pot the next hand, with Kaplan the man driving the action with a mid-position raise to 35,000 with Robl the only caller in position. The flop saw checks from both players and the hit the turn. This brought a bet of 45,000 from Kaplan and a call from Robl. Kaplan took another stab on the river, this time for 90,000 with Robl calling once again.

Kaplan turned over but this was not enough to beat Robl's straight and he scooped the pot to climb to 520,000 while Kaplan dropped some to 620,000.

Over on the next table, the recently entered Ivan Leow managed something similar one table over, making it 20,000 from under-the-gun with Paul Phua the only caller two seats over.

The flop saw Leow bet 25,000, which was enough to take it down and the Malaysian climbed to 140,000 or so.