Juanda Gives Ho Warm Welcome

There have been 120 entries so far here in the HK$103,000 High Roller Single Re-Entry Shot Clock event, with 3 re-entries of whom 103 are still in contention.

One of the recent arrivals is US player Maria Ho who has just taken her seat over on John Juanda’s table, who had a warm welcome for her. Eager to get into the action Ho opened for 1,000 from middle position, with neighboring Juanda making the call along with Masaya Nakagawa in the big blind.

The flop fell a rather dry bringing a check from Nakagawa and a 1,600 continuation bet from Ho, which both opponents called to keep the action three-way to the turn.

Ho did not seem perturbed by the arrival of some paint and led out for 4,300 after Nakagawa checked his option.

Juanda was busy fiddling with a facemask for a good 20-seconds or so, but finally got it on comfortably and announced the raise, juicing it up to 13,000.

Nakagawa quickly folded and while Ho did not look too thrilled about it, she too eventually let it go.