Cheng Profits from Three-way Carnage

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Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Nevan Cheng woke up with aces at the right time

A huge three-way pre-flop all in confrontation has not long played out over on Victor Chong’s table and the Malaysian player had a front row seat as he was one of the protagonists.

It was Nevan Cheng who was the beneficiary of all the action, and the instigator, making it 1,100 to go from under-the-gun. Action folded around to a player on the button who went from DEFCON 4 to DEFCON 1 immediately and launched his whole 20,000-plus stack into the center of the table.

Victor Chong checked his cards in the small blind and launched missiles of his own, re-shoving to isolate. Cheng made a speedy call and the hands were turned over.

Nevan Cheng:
Button:
Victor Chong:

While Cheng was the at-risk player and was covered by both opponents, his gun was loaded with silver bullets, much more effective than missiles in a poker game and the runout was a good one for aces. Cheng stacked up to 35,500, the button busted and Chong took a bit of hit but is still in decent shape with a stack of 24,000.