Gyeongbyeong Lee Fades To Scoop a Monster
Level 24
: 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante
From middle position, Sergey Tikhonov opened with a raise to 100,000. Action folded around to Gyeongbyeong Lee, who re-raised, making it 245,000 from the small blind. Next to act was Nima Salehizadeh in the big blind, and he called. Action was back to Tikhonov, and he folded.
The flop came down 
, and Lee took a look at Salehizadeh's stack, then put out a bet of 500,000. Salehizadeh moved all in, and Lee quickly called with a covering stack.
Lee: 
Salehizadeh: 
Salehizadeh had a flush draw, but he was still in bad shape against Lee's aces. Lee held on through the 
turn and the 
river, and that awarded the monster pot to Lee, who moved very close to the top of the chip counts.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
5,450,000
1,750,000
|
1,750,000 |
|
Busted |