Down to Heads-Up Play After Li Cheng Bei Busts in 3rd

Nov 21, 2017

On the first hand back from a short break, Li Cheng Bei moved all in from the first position. Chip leader Qian Zhu Qiang was in the small blind and three-bet all in to isolate. Hu Ling Fei folded from the big blind, and it was Bei’s Club 9Diamond 9 against the Spade ASpade 10 for Qiang.

Qiang flopped the best hand on the Heart AClub JSpade J board and held from there. The turn was the Club 3 and the river was the Diamond 2. Li was eliminated in third place, taking home CNY 700,000 ($106,000) and setting up the heads-up battle between Qiang and Fei.

Entering heads-up action, Qiang was out in front with a chip advantage of nearly 3-1 over Fei.

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