At a press conference this morning, Joe Hachem remarked that, as a general rule, when Asian poker players sense weakness from an opponent, they have no fear about putting that opponent to the test. On a flop of , Sam Faqiryar recently put Yadong Liu to the test by check-raising Liu's 4,000-chip flop bet to 14,000, enough to put Liu all in. It was the wrong time to do so; Liu snap-called and tabled , a hand that was a commanding favorite over Faqiryar's . The board ran out to allow Liu to double up to 37,000 at Faqiryar's expense.