Yong Takes from Cates with Big Bet Poker

Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

Wai Kin Yong raised to 60,000 and Sergio Aido called on the button. The flop fell and Yong continued for 60,000, but folded to a raise of 200,000 by Aido.

Koray Aldemir then took the blinds and antes with a raise to 65,000 before a big hand took more than 14 minutes.

Yong opened to 65,000 from under the gun and Dan Cates defended the big blind, quickly checked the flop. Yong continued for 70,000 and Cates called.

Both saw the appear on the turn and Cates quickly checked again. Yong made it 120,000 to go and Cates check-raised to 250,000 after some consideration, which Yong called.

The river saw both players stare at the board for a good two minutes before Cates elected to check. Yong fired 420,000, almost half the stack Cates had left, and his opponent took another three minutes. After silently talking through the hand, Cates folded and said after the hand "you either have some bullshit or ten nine."