Two in a Row for Sho Homma

Photo: Sho Homma

“I should have gone all-in preflop,” Paul Hoefer sighs when he bet-folds the river for nearly half his stack and is left on fewer than 20 big blinds. He then adds it was a three-bet pot on which the board shows . Hoefer bets 190,000 and Sho Homma jams to force a fold from his table neighbour, with Homma exposing the .

Seat 1. Jiaxian Pan – 342,000 ( 23 bb)
Seat 2. Jhon Hendri – 171,000 ( 11 bb)
Seat 3. Paul Hoefer – 247,000 ( 16 bb)
Seat 4. Sho Homma – 900,000 ( 60 bb)
Seat 5. Adrien Berger – 1,380,000 ( 92 bb)
Seat 6. Supakit Anukoolpitaknil – 568,000 ( 38 bb)
Seat 7. John Perry – 1,400,000 ( 93 bb)
Seat 8. Yinghao Zhuo – 850,000 ( 57 bb)

In the next hand, Jhon Hendri jams for 171,000 and Homma calls with the . Hendri laughs as he exposes the dominated , which fails to improve on the board.

Sho Homma – 1,200,000 (80 bb)
Jhon Hendri – Eliminated in 48th Place ($10,200)