Chu-Chu! All Aboard the Haibo Express!
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 0 ante
With only minutes to go until the dinner break, 2007 Melbourne Poker Championship Main Event winner Haibo Chu has scored a bucketload of chip, moving up to 150,000 through Grant Trask!
After a raised pot preflop, Trask checked his option on a flop of , as did Peter Karam from the hijack position before Chu led out for 13,800. Trask called and Karam folded, leaving it heads-up to the turn of the .
Trask check-called Chu's bet of 28,800 before both players checked down the river ; Trask then mucked furiously after Chu tabled for top pair. As frustrating as it must be, Trask will have to compose himself and focus on rebuilding his stack after the dinner break, but he's still travelling nicely on 45,000.