Zheko Dinev Eliminated by Xin Lin

Zheko Dinev, who headed into Day 2 as the chip leader, is out before the money! Soon after his double up, Dinev gets into a raising war with his table neighbor Xin Lin who has a near identical stack and both reveal premium hands in showdown.

Zheko Dinev:
Xin Lin:

The board comes and Christopher Mateo grabs his folded cards out of the muck to show he would have made a flush.

Both stacks are counted and Lin has 158,500 while Dinev is covered by a single T-500 chip.

Christopher Mateo – 440,000
Xin Lin – 340,000
Zheko Dinev – Eliminated