Joseph Cheong and Isaac Haxton have had a friendly rivalry for much of the day and that continued during a recent hand. We arrived at the action on the river of a board and Haxton had jammed for his remaining 559,000. That amount was well over a pot-sized bet and Cheong went deep into the tank.
Eventually Cheong gave a loud sort of sigh and slammed down his face up to send the pot to Haxton.
Cheong is still crushing on well over 2 million, while for pretty much the first time today Haxton is up over the starting stack.
PokerStars Team Online Isaac Haxton had somewhat of a bad start to the day, but has since found his feet and enough chips to see his stack move back up to just under 1 million.
We recently watched Haxton scoop up a pot on a board, with Haxton tank-calling a river bet of 105,000 from Tom Hu. When Hu turned over for a whole lot of nothing, Haxton tabled his and picked up some more chips.
When we arrived over at Shaun Deeb's table, the poker star was involved in a hand with Hai San Lin. There was already a turn card out on the felt at this point, with the board showing . There was well over 100,000 in the pot and Lin bet 110,000. Deeb gave a side glance to the player two spots to his left before making the call, at which point the dealer tabled a on the river. Deeb had around 320,000 and his opponent quickly jammed out 570,000 worth of chips at the sight of the river. Deeb opted to let his hand go and the pot went to Lin.
As Lin scooped up his new chips, he gave the table a solid bang of his fist in enthusiasm, which is somewhat standard of Macau poker players.
The players are back from the quick break and ready to keep playing here in the HK$1,000,000 buy-in GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions Main Event. Two more levels before the players go on a 90-minute dinner break.
We have just been given access to a list of the players who have opted to rebuy, whether they have been eliminated first, or have topped up their stacks. There has been a total of five rebuys so far. Each of the below have used one of their two available rebuys.
Yan Shing Tsang
Igor Kurganov
Stanley Choi
Wei Sang Phua
Fenglei Qian
The room has just been told that they can enter, and rebuy, until after the dinner break following the fourth level of the day. That means players have until around 9.00 p.m. local time to pony up the HK$1,000,000 buy-in to enter the GDAM Main Event.
PokerStars Team Online Isaac Haxton has had a roller coaster day already, but seems to be steadying up recently as his stack is back to a respectable 800,000 after being down below 500,000 early. Seated on Haxton's direct left is Joseph Cheong, who was up to 3 million in chips early. Cheong is now down to around 2.5 million, but considering he hasn't utilized any of his rebuys, he is doing great.
We recently caught these two players rumbling on the river of a board. Haxton had led out with a bet of 90,000 and Cheong was in the tank before letting his cards go and sending the pot to Cheong.
board and Haxton had jammed for his remaining 559,000. That amount was well over a pot-sized bet and Cheong went deep into the tank.
face up to send the pot to Haxton.
board, with Haxton tank-calling a river bet of 105,000 from Tom Hu. When Hu turned over 
for a whole lot of nothing, Haxton tabled his 
and picked up some more chips.
on the river. Deeb had around 320,000 and his opponent quickly jammed out 570,000 worth of chips at the sight of the river. Deeb opted to let his hand go and the pot went to Lin.
