Action Table Busts Zhang, Gruendemann and Peng Profit
It appears Mark Gruendemann has drawn the action table, with three ridiculous back-to-back hands playing out that saw Qi Peng go from super short-stack to short stack to average, Gruendemann narrowly avoid elimination and Yiming Cheng Zhang take two nasty beats to hit the rail.
According to Gruendemann, players have been hitting pocket pairs with an extremely high frequency which has resulted in all this carnage.
Zhang's downfall began when he got all the chips in on a 
flop with 
and found himself up against Jiebin Liu holding 
. Unfortunately for Zhang running 
and 
on the turn and river saw Liu hit quads to win the hand and climb to 55,000 while Zhang was left with close to 1,800.
Zhang passed on the hand after, but this was a three-way pre-flop all-in between an early position raiser, Gruendemann and Peng.
Opponent: 
Mark Gruendemann: 
Qi Peng: 
Peng was in it for the value, calling off his 2,250 stack after both Gruendemann and his opponent got all the chips in.
The board ran out 
to give Peng the flush and the main pot and he climbed to 6,950, with Gruendemann hitting the side pot to survive and climb to 15,000 while the player with ace king was left with 26,000.
The hand after saw this player raise again, with Peng and Zhang getting their short stacks in behind for another three-way confrontation.
Opponent: 
Qi Peng: 
Yiming Cheng Zhang: 
The flop came 
to give Zhang the lead, and while the 
river saw him retain his lead, another bad river in the form of the 
brought his tournament to an abrupt end and stack Peng up tp 21,000.
Hong Kong's Alan Lau sat down just as the tail end of this carnage played out, so is in for a treat should the action on this table continue to play out as it has.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
55,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
21,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
15,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
|
Busted |