Marc Inizan Dominates Early Heads-Up Stage

Nov 21, 2022

Only around ten minutes are played in the heads-up duel and the vast majority of the pots is being pushed to Marc Inizan. Kai Jan “Steven” Chou wins a few hands but his stack is decimated to around 40 big blinds in very quick fashion.

In a single-raised pot to the Club AHeart ASpade Q flop, both players check to the Spade 2 turn. Chou bets 300,000 and Inizan raises to 1,100,000 to win the pot.

Chou then also check-calls a bet worth 400,000 on the Diamond 9Club 3Heart 2Diamond 10 turn. The Spade A river goes check, check, and Chou tables the Heart 5Club 5. Inizan has that beat with the Spade 9Club 4 and ships another pot.

Chou then raises the button and Inizan calls in the big blind. They check the Spade JSpade 8Spade 3 flop and Inizan check-calls for 250,000 on the Heart 2 turn.

Inizan leads the Heart 6 river for 550,000 and Chou calls.

The Frenchman tables the Heart KClub 8 and Chou mucks, then grabs his cards again to double check before mucking certainly.

Marc Inizan – 20,300,000 (135 bb)
Kai Jan Chou – 6,000,000 (40 bb)

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