Hong Zhang Takes a Big Side Pot As Fen Tisov Triples Up

Photo:  Hong Zhang

Fen Tisov is all in preflop, and there is already a side pot between Hong Zhang and Rich Dixon.

Zhang and Dixon check to the turn on a board of , Zhang checks, Dixon bets 145,000, and Zhang quickly moves all in for about 285,000. Dixon is clearly surprised by this, and goes into the tank. Dixon barely covers Zhang by a few of 1K chips.

Dixon mentions that the same thing happened to him yesterday. He tanks for a long time before he folds, and Zhang takes a side pot worth more than 350K.

For the main pot, Zhang shows , but Tisov turns over for a turned set of eights. Tisov needs to avoid an ace on the river to stay alive.

The river card is the , and Tisov wins the pot with his set of eights to triple up to about 73,000 in chips.

Fen Tisov  –  73,000  (12 bb)
Hong Zhang  –  540,000  (90 bb)

Photo:  Fen Tisov