Tang Shows Xu the Door

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Level 6 : 300/600, 75 ante

Bluff squeezing to pick up chips is fine – as long as you don’t get caught. However, when you do get caught in the act it can cost a player their whole stack, which is exactly what has just happened to Liang Xu.

Pre-flop it was Qiang Lin opening the action from the button with a raise to 1,100 before Danny Tang re-raised to 3,650 from the small blind. Sitting in the big blind Xu eyed up both opponents before moving all-in for 46,525 in total, sending Lin deep into the think tank.

Five minutes later Lin found the fold but Tang was not convinced.

“I don’t think I can fold this here, I don’t think you have anything,” Tang told Xu as he threw in the call.

It appeared that Tang’s spider senses are spot on as Xu turned over which was trailing to Tang’s .

The extremely sweaty flop brought something for both players with Tang needing to fade Xu’s heart draw. The turn gave the Chinese player additional outs but the river was not one of them and Xu headed for the exit while Tang stacked up to 120,000.