Esfandiari Over-Bet Shoves Flop
In a pot that didn't appear to have more than 30,000 chips in it, Chino Rheem had to call off 148,800 to call Antonio Esfandiari's all in. The flop was and Rheem tanked for about five minutes. He told Esfandiari a couple of times that his first instinct was to fold it but couldn't get much of a reaction from his opponent. Eventually, Rheem slid out the chips and was disappointed when Esfandiari quickly tabled the nuts, . Rheem did still have outs for a chop though holding .
The turn was the which gave Rheem outs to win the pot by making a full-house but the river did neither for him when it fell the .
Esfandiari is now a top 5 stack with 325,000 while Rheem is down to just 100,000.