Canada’s Dong Guo leaped into the poker scene on the game’s biggest stage during the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event. He entered Day 6 of the biggest poker event of the year with 3.8 million in chips, which was at the time 17th place out of 79 players remaining. He ultimately busted in 29th place from the 2014 Main Event for $230,000.

According to the Global Poker Index, Guo had only one recorded live poker tournament cash prior to the 2014 WSOP Main Event when he finished in eighth place in an HKD $4,000 Macau Millions No Limit Hold’em event for HKD $16,000, or a shade over USD $2,000.

Guo was involved in one of the more interesting hands in the 2014 Main Event on Day 5 against American poker player Matthew Sedgeman. Sedgeman, from the button, was battling with Guo pre-flop when he made a 4bet raise with Qc-Jc to 258,000 in chips with the blinds at 12,000/24,000. Guo mistakenly announced a 5bet raise to 120,000 in chips with Ah-Ac, which was far less than what was already 4bet by Sedgeman. Guo, after the fact, explained that this mistake was due to the way numbers are represented in his native language.

After a small delay while the floor was being called, it was determined that Guo’s announcement had to be interpreted as a min-raise according to the World Series of Poker rules. Guo then put enough chips out to represent a 5bet of 389,000 in chips, which Sedgeman just called.

Guo was more careful when betting 355,000 chips, or about half the pot, on a flop of Kh-6h-Ts. Sedgeman then moved all-in, but seemed to already know he was behind before the cards were turned over, asking Guo if he had aces, to which Guo replied, “Of course.” Sedgeman was unable to catch up when the board completed Jh-8h, sending him to the rail as Guo watched his stack grow to 3.78 million.

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