Bubble Drama Between Yu-Chung "Nevan" Chang and Quan Qiu

Photo:  Nevan Chung (center) celebrates his big double-up that catapulted him to second on the Day 1C leaderboard.

Yu-Chung “Nevan” Chang raises from an early position and picks up a caller in Quan Qiu. The flop brings a bet of Chang and a call by Qiu, which leads them to the turn.

Chang now bets 100,000 only for Qiu to move all-in, resulting in the call by Chang for a large pot with near even stack sizes involved. Hand for hand mode is not active yet as the tables are supposed to conclude their current hand. Once that is the case for everyone else, they proceed with the showdown.

Yu-Chung “Nevan” Chang:
Quan Qiu:

Photo:  Nevan Chung’s wife Weiwei (center) squeezed thru the crowd to get a look at Nevan’s big all-in hand on the Money Bubble.

The tension rises as a crowd gathers all around the table and most already celebrate when the river further improves Chang to a full house. Both stacks are counted and Chang doubles for 252,000, leaving Qiu with fumes.

Chang raises to 20,000 in the next hand and Qiu calls all-in for 14,000.

Quan Qiu:
Yu-Chung “Nevan” Chang:

The kicker plays for Qiu on the board and the bubble has not burst yet.

Yu-Chung “Nevan” Chang – 640,000
Quan Qiu – 53,000

Photo:  Quan Qiu (seated, center) was surrounded by players hoping that he would bust so they could finish in the money.