Lee Pays off Alvarado
We were loitering by JC Alvarado and song Liang’s table as it was Liang’s big blind and we wanted to see if the Chinese player and Alvardo would get into another big hand. However, it was Malaysia’s Chin Yong Lee who was the instigator in this particular hand, making it 10,500 to from middle position.
Alvarado made the call from the next seat over and Liang anti-climatically folded his big blind to take the action heads-up to a flop of 
, which Lee had checked in the dark.
Alvarado has quite an intimidating stare when he wants to turn it on, and did so now, shooting it at Lee, who seemed totally oblivious to the fact as he was looking the other way. Alvarado eventually checked it behind and the 
came off on the turn.
This saw both players check once more and the 
river completed the hand. Lee made another quick check and Alvarado made an uncharacteristically quick bet of 40,000.
Lee already had the calling chip in his hand and dropped it over the line as soon as Alvarado had made the bet, and folded just as quickly when the Mexican rolled over 
. Guess checking in the dark didn’t really pay off there and Lee dropped to 165,000 while Alvarado climbed to 295,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
295,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
165,000
39,500
|
39,500 |