And just like that, in less than 10 minutes there have been 3 eliminations from the unofficial final table and the WPT is now just one elimination away from stopping for the day with 6 players remaining.
First to go was Khaly Dang, who found herself all-in holding 
facing the 
of Ruben Perceval. The run-out of 
missed her completely and Ruben’s pocket Tens hold.
10th place: Khaly Dang, $18,750.00
Next to be eliminated was Rene Fortin – who had been nursing a small stack all day and quite successfully laddering up pay jumps. Laddering up, that is, until he decided to shove with a small pair 
. He was called by Thomas Taylor holding 
and the 
community cards didn’t change a thing.
9th place: Rene Fortin, $25,630.00
Last to go was the most unlucky of the bunch. Wei Zheng was short-stacked since Tony Dunst cracked his pocket 
with 
by spiking a 
on the river and stacking almost 800K of Wei’s erstwhile stack. Ever patient, however, he waited for his spots – doubled up once – and finally pushed with and found a call from Seth Davies holding 
.
The flop was safe enough: 
as was the 
on the turn. The 
on the river brought out a gasp from the table as Wei had gotten super unlucky twice in a half hour and was eliminated from the tournament.
8th place: Zheng Wei, $34,180.00
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- Khaly Dang
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- Rene Fortin
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- Zheng Wei
