Iakobishvili First Casualty, Zhou Sits Down and Grabs Chip Lead

Frank Visser

Level 2 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

There were already a whopping 72,000 chips in the middle when the action was caught on a board of 2?9?4?5?. Gha Iakobishvili made the pot even bigger by betting a massive 80,000 from the small blind. Quan Zhou, who just sat down to play his first hand, called from the big blind while Kayhan Mokri folded from the cutoff.

The 3? river then completed the board and Iakobishvili downsized to a bet of 50,000. Zhou subsequentially shoved all in, covering the 131,000 chips Iakobishvili had in his total stack by just a bit.

Iakobishvili put forth all of his time banks, and after using a few of them he asked the dealer if he must show if he made the call. After an affirmative answer, Iakobishvhili responded with "then I will think."

"Oh well, I will just reenter", he ultimately concluded while putting in the rest of his stack. Zhou showed A?Q? for a rivered wheel, while Iakobishvili quickly tabled 3x3x for a set. He quickly left the tournament area, looking for the nearest available reentry desk.