Zheng Wei lost a few chips following the dinner break before taking a big pot versus Antonio Esfandiari to put him back in the driver seat.
Antonio opened to 12,000 from middle position, and Rene Fortin came along for the ride from the button. Zheng 3bet to 35,000 from the big blind, finding a call only from Antonio. First to act, Zheng checked on the board, and called Antonio’s 33,000 chip bet. He then lead out for 50,000 on the turn, and Antonio completed. On the river, Zheng lead out once again, this time for 117,000. Antonio cut out the chips, gave a little speech and slid the call forward, only to run into the stone-cold nuts as Zheng tabled for broadway.
With that pot Zheng climbed up to around 650,000.
With 59 players left in the field, we are now only 5 eliminations away from being in the money.