Kicker sends Michael Soyza’s stack further down


Out of the four remaining players, Michael Soyza and Tetsuya Tsuchikawa are way below average that they would need a couple of double ups to reach average stack. For Soyza, his stack fell further while the leader Alecz Chan claimed his chips.

From the sb seat, Soyza limped in and Chan checked. The flop ran 9 6 9 and both checked. The turn 7 saw some action with Soyza leading out with a 24k bet. Chan flat-called. On the river A, Soyza bet 80k, Chan raised to 180k, and Soyza called.

Chan J 9
Soyza 9 8

With Chan holding the higher kicker, he won the pot and climbed to 2.5M. Soyza down to 190k.