Chino Pulls Ahead
by Court on 12.20.08, 4:31 am
After hours of heads up play with the two players hanging pretty close to dead even Chino Rheem has pulled out to a real chip lead. It took hours and over 100 hands of heads up action, but on a K
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3 flop Chino checked to Justin Young who bet 300k and then Chino raised to 1.4 million. Young announced another raise before putting in a total of 4.4 million prompting Chino to put the rest of his chips in the pot.
Young went into the tank for an extended period to consider this huge decision. After almost 5 full minutes of thought he folded, leaving himself only 4.1 million behind while Chino was able to build his stack to just over 18 million and a more than 4 to 1 chip lead, by far the largest margin so far in heads up play.
Once Young had folded Chino showed his hand, the A4 for ace high no pair, but the nut flush draw.
