Kyungtae Lee Soars to the Top

Kyungtae Lee

Christopher Mateo raises to 6,500 and the small blind then three-bets to 17,500. Kyungtae Lee four-bets to 55,000 and Mateo folds while the small blind sigh-calls with some 90,000 behind. On the flop, the small blind jams and Lee instantly calls.

Small blind:
Kyungtae Lee:

Lee has the best of it and remains ahead on the turn and river runout to become the runaway chip leader. On the same table, Kyoungwon Park then loses an above-average stack to Van Hoang Nguyen as the rich get richer.

Kyungtae Lee – 520,000
Van Hoang Nguyen – 330,000
Christopher Mateo – 250,000
Kyoungwon Park – Eliminated