Aug 19, 2022
Short stacked Marcus Tan enters three consecutive hands and turns his 5 BB stack to 60 BB. On the first hand, under the gun Tan is all in with and gets lucky on Sam Ath Lor’s after the board spreads .
On the next hand, mid-position player Steve Ng bet lays out a 7000 bet, big blind Tan three-bets all in his last 15,000. Easy call for Ng who has a massive stack. Ng shows , Tan has better , the board runs low for another double up to Tan.
Following that hand, he calls a short stack’s shove with dominating . Though not needed, Tan spikes the King on the turn to earn his third consecutive win.
With the table in shock, Lloyd Fontillas hopes to change the momentum. From the button, Tan raises to 6500, small blind Fontillas three-bets to 13,000, Tan calls. The flop sees Fontillas bet 10,000 and Tan calls. On the turn , Fontillas switches up and checks, Tan bets 16,000, Fontillas snaps it off. The river , both players check. Fontillas say he has Queen high, Tan shows and wins the pot.
Marcus Tan 180,000