Chan Backdoors Kolonias, Holz Folds Out Lekovic, Two New Faces

We caught the tail end of a decent sized pot that played out between Alexandros Kolonias and Peter Chan. With the board reading Kolonias (cutoff) had checked the action over to Chan (button), who fired out a hefty pot-sized bet of 55,000, leaving himself roughly 85,000 behind.

Kolonias tanked long and hard over the decision, but as the astute amongst you must have guessed from the post title, the Greek player made the call only to see Chan triumphantly table for the rivered nut flush and the Hong Kong player climbed to 221,500 after that timely catch while Kolonias dropped to 166,500.

It has not taken Fedor Holz long to get things going and we caught the German player embroiled in a hand against Predrag Lekovic in a scene that felt strangely reminiscent of yesterday’s 6-Max final table – a fact Holz also noted.

We picked up the action pre-flop where Lekovic (under-the-gun) had a raise of 4,500 out on the felt in front of him and was contemplating a Holz UTG+1 re-raise of 15,000.

Lekovic mulled it over and eventually counted out the call, bringing a chuckle from Holz.

“We’ve been here before,” quipped the German as the dealer spread the flop, which brought a check from Lekovic and a bet of 21,500 from Holz.

The Montenegrin player thought it over but did not take too long to make the call and the dealer burned and turned the bringing another check from Lekovic and a hefty 66,500-second barrel from Holz.

Lekovic shot Holz a wry grin before sliding his cards into the muck, dropping to 288,000 while Holz climbed to 336,000.

There have been two more new arrivals to grow the field to 20 entrants, 19 of whom still remain in contention with the new faces being China’s Rui Cao and 6-Max runner up Su Hao.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Fedor Holz	336,000 81,000	81,000

Predrag Lekovic	288,000 23,000	23,000
Rui Cao	250,000 250,000	250,000
Su Hao	250,000 250,000	250,000
Peter Chan	221,500 31,500	31,500
Alexandros Kolonias	166,500 -96,700	-96,700