Hands #93-95: Jiaxu Chen Hero-Calls Patrick Yazbeck

Mar 25, 2025

Prior to the hand, the blinds increase to 125,000-250,000 with a big blind ante of 250,000.

Hand #93: Jiaxu Chen limps the small blind and calls a raise to 650,000 by Patrick Yazbeck. On the Club 5Spade 3Diamond 2 flop, Chen check-calls for 425,000. They check the Diamond 7 turn and the Club 9 river for Chen to win the pot with the Diamond 10Diamond 3.


Hand #94: Chen raises the button to 500,000 and Joshua McSwiney calls from the big blind. McSwiney checks on the Spade QHeart 3Diamond 2 flop, Chen bets 350,000 and McSwiney calls.

Thy check the Diamond 6 turn and McSwiney’s bet of 2,000,000 on the Club 2 river wins the pot without resistance.


Hand #95: Patrick Yazbeck opens to 500,000 on the button, Chen comes along in the big blind. They check to the Club QDiamond 8Spade 6Heart 9 turn on which Chen bets 350,000, >Yazbeck calls. Chen checks the Diamond 4 river and Yazbeck bets 850,000. After brief consideration, Chen calls and is good with Heart JHeart 6, as Yazbeck only has Heart KClub 10.


Joshua McSwiney – 16,200,000 (65 bb)
Jiaxu Chen – 18,500,000 (74 bb)
Patrick Yazbeck – 9,200,000 (37 bb)

Recent Tweets @WPT