{"id":27154,"date":"2013-03-19T20:46:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=27154"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:25:13","slug":"lewis-takes-the-chip-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/lewis-takes-the-chip-lead.html","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Takes the Chip Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/8570835421_7411cd0138_z1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/8570835421_7411cd0138_z1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/8570835421_7411cd0138_z1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite winning that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wang-weikang-eliminated-in-6th-place-15000-rasmus-larsen-eliminated-in-5th-place-19000.html\">huge pot where he eliminated two players<\/a> in the same hand, <strong>Elior Sion<\/strong> has lost his chip lead and the momentum seems to be with <strong>Reece Lewis<\/strong> right now.<\/p>\n<p>In one hand Sion opened to 65,000 with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ah.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and then called when Lewis three-bet to <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ac.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. The <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/js.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> flop saw Sion check fold to a Lewis continuation bet.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately after that hand Lewis took the chip lead from Sion. Lewis opened to 75,000 from the button, <strong>Robin Fisher<\/strong> called with pocket deuces and Sion called with his <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ts.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. The <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qs.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> flop was checked by all three players, but when Fisher checked the arrival of the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> turn, Sion bet 125,000. Only Lewis called this and it was heads up to the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> river.<\/p>\n<p>Sion tried to represent the flush by betting 410,000 with his ten-high and it looked to have worked because Lewis tanked for close to 90 seconds before calling with his <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/as.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. Lewis now has the chip lead.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Reece Lewis \u2013 2,930,000<\/li>\n<li>Elior Sion \u2013 1,510,000<\/li>\n<li>Robin Fisher \u2013 995,000<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\nBlinds are 15,000\/30,000\/5,000a.<\/p>\n<h3>Join in the conversation!<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the action on the live stream by heading over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/partypoker-com-premier-league-poker-vi-live-stream.html\">our dedicated Live Stream post<\/a> on the PartyPoker Blog.  So who do you think is going to win? Let us know in the comments below and remember to follow us on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/partypoker\">Twitter <\/a><\/strong>and like us on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/partypoker\">Facebook <\/a><\/strong>now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite winning that huge pot where he eliminated two players in the same hand, Elior Sion has lost his chip lead and the momentum seems to be with Reece Lewis right now. In one hand Sion opened to 65,000 with and then called when Lewis three-bet to . The flop saw Sion check fold to<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/lewis-takes-the-chip-lead.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":27156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76574,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154\/revisions\/76574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27154"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}