Chopped Pot for Short Stacks Apoorval Goel and Yinghao Zhuo

Feb 23, 2025

In a battle between the short stacks, Apoorva Goel moves all in from the cutoff for 360,000, and Yinghao Zhuo calls all in from the small blind for 315,000 with Diamond ADiamond K.

Goel turns over Spade KHeart 9, and Zhuo needs his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board comes Diamond 5Club 5Spade 4Heart 5Heart 4, and the board brings a full house to chop the pot.

Apoorva Goel  –  410,000  (8 bb)
Yinghao Zhuo  –  365,000  (7 bb)

The next hand, chipleader Daniel Charlton raises from the cutoff to 100,000, and Yinghao Zhuo uses two Time Chips to tank for more than a minute before he reraises from the button to 340,000, leaving himself just 25K behind.

Charlton rechecks his cards and says, “It’s not aces,” before he folds. Zhuo takes the pot.

Yinghao Zhuo  –  590,000  (12 bb)

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