Chua Charges in the Dying Moments

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Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

We have a new chip leader!

All the tables in the room had finished their three hands and bagged up their stacks. Well, every table except one. We in the media were already over by the desk getting the end-of-day chip counts ready when we are alerted to the fact that Table 10 was still on their first of the last three hands and had been for 20 minutes. At this point we quickly made our way to the table to find that Ben Pockett had been eliminated at the hands of Vincent Chua. It was clearly a massive pot, so we asked his tablemates what had happened.

Apparently the two had plenty of history prior to this hand. Pockett opened it up from under the gun and Chua three-bet on his direct left – something that had occurred multiple times at this table. Pockett and Chua then played out a hand on an apparent board. Pockett had seemingly value bet 10,000 on the river and this is when Chua ripped it on him. Pockett then went deep into the tank and eventually called off his large stack.