Jason Koon Takes Lead; Doubles Ren Lin

Ren Lin

Jason Koon limps in from the small blind and then glances at the stack sizes of the other two short stacks when Martin Kabrhel raises to 500,000 in the big blind. Koon calls and check-calls bets of 375,000 on the flop as well as 1,000,000 on the turn.

They check the river and Koon wins the pot with the , Kabrhel mentions in table chat he had pocket sevens.

Ren Lin then raises to 250,000 first to act and Biao Ding defends the big blind. Ding check-shoves the flop and Lin forfeits his continuation bet worth 175,000.

Koon opens to 250,000 from under the gun and Lin defends the big blind. Lin check-calls for 125,000 on the flop, the turn is checked by both.

Lin leads the river for 325,000 and Koon jams, earning an instant call.

“Do you have ace-jack?” Lin asks and Koon replies “no, just the jack, can you beat that?” before exposing the . Lin has that crushed with the for aces full of nines to double for 925,000.

Seat 1. Jason Koon – 4,950,000 (40 bb)
Seat 5 . Martin Kabrhel – 4,400,000 (35 bb)
Seat 8. Biao Ding – 1,700,000 (14 bb)
Seat 9. Ren Lin – 2,800,000 (22 bb)

Jason Koon