09-07-2008 01:09 UTC+8

Chop, Chop

[user75032]

Short-stacked Diwei Huang raised to 120,000. He found one caller in the small blind -- Charles Chua.

The flop appeared innocuous enough. It came down {6-Diamonds}

. Chua checked to Huang, who made a half-pot bet of 120,000. When action moved back to Chua, he made it 400,000 to go. From there, the end result was inevitable. Huang moved all in and Chua quickly called.

Huang: {A-Spades}

Chua:

Huang was temporarily in the lead, but everyone in the room could see that a chopped pot was a strong possibility. Even Chua seemed to be rooting for a chop. "I don't want the eight," he said. "That would be mean. I'm happy to split."

Split is exactly what happened when the turn and river came running tens, the {10-Spades}