Pham hurting Tsuchikawa’s stack


Kicking off the heads up round, Huy Pham had about a 3:1 chip lead against Tetsuya Tsuchikawa. Tsuchikawa gained some chips when he three-bet Pham all in on the first hand however Pham retaliated in the next hand.

Tsuchikawa raised to 200,000 on the button and Pham called on the big blind.

At the flop of 10 J 4, Pham checked and Tsuchikawa bet 180,000. Pham called.

At the turn of 4 both players checked to see a free river card of K. Acting first, Pham bet 300,000 and Tsuchikawa quickly called. Pham showed a K 4 for a full house and Tsuchikawa just smiled while mucking. We also heard him say he would have called if Pham shoved. Luckily for him, Pham didn’t.