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Weizheng Zhong 101 betWins TLPT Circuit Main Event
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- Final Table Results
- Final Table Action
- Heads-up Action
Sometimes, the cards just fall your way in both poker and in life.
Weizheng Zhong can typically be found grinding poker tournaments in America, but a spur-of-the-moment invitation changed everything. While travelling through China, a friend reached out and suggested he swing by Jeju. Zhong took the offer, hopped into the TLPT Circuit Main Event, and three days later, that impromptu decision paid off in spades as he was crowned the inaugural champion.
For the victory, Zhou takes home the Circuit Main Event trophy and the US$120,000 first-place prize, which was the biggest slice of the $700,000 prize pool.
"It's pretty surreal," Zhou said shortly after winning the event. "It's my first time playing in Asia. I'm feeling very lucky."
Zhong's impressive victory came after navigating a final table that included poker phenom Stephen Song and a seemingly unstoppable Xuecong Wu, who cruised through the final table after winning nearly every meaningful pot he played. At one point, Wu held an over 2:1 chip lead over Zhong during their heads-up battle, but Zhong stuck to his game plan and was able to edge out the win.
"My strategy [against Wu] was to play as much post-flop as I could, so I almost never raised [preflop]," Zhong explained. "I felt I had a little bit of a post-flop edge, and I was able to pull it off in the end."
Final Table Results
Rank | Player | Country | Prize (in US$) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Weizheng Zhong | China | $120,000 |
2 | Xuecong Wu | China | $65,000 |
3 | William Jia | Australia | $47,000 |
4 | Fangzhou Zhu | China | $36,300 |
5 | Yiyu Zhou | China | $28,000 |
6 | Jiaming Zhao | China | $21,000 |
7 | Stephen Song | United States | $16,000 |
8 | Jin Zeng | China | $12,500 |
9 | Huan Wen | China | $9,700 |

Final Table Action
Once players were seated at the final table, an explosive start at the Landing Casino inside the extravagant Shinhwa World Hotel Jeju saw four players eliminated within the first two levels of play.
On the very first hand, Huan Wen took his chances with ace-jack sitting on just seven big blinds and was sent out in ninth after running into Zhong's pocket jacks. Shortly after, Jin Zeng followed Wen out the door after shoving with a dominated ace against Jiaming Zhao's ace-king.
In a shocking turn of events, Song, who entered the final table second in chips, had his aces cracked by Wu in a massive pot to get sent out in an unexpected seventh.
The run-good for Wu kept coming as he scored another knockout against Zhao just a few hands later to soar into the five-handed chip lead.
Play became notably more reserved at that point as the short-stacked players began making snug folds, seemingly trying to out-ladder each other for pay jumps. Meanwhile, Wu continued making hands and chipping up, accumulating nearly half the chips in play with five remaining.

All eyes shifted to William Jia, who had slipped into short stack by a large margin. However, a pair of fortunate double-ups gave Jia new life and left the last lady standing — Yiyu Zhou — as the short stack. With no room left to manoeuvre, Zhou took a stand with jack-ten suited after being shoved into by Zhong, but Zhong held up with king-high to send Zhou out in fifth.
A relatively quiet Fangzhou Zhu managed to pick up kings and score a big double through Wu, only to have Jia double through Zhu twice in quick succession to leave him on the short stack. Wu then paid Zhu back by eliminating him with Big Slick in an all-in preflop confrontation.
Jia's string of double-ups finally came to an end after he shoved with jack-seven into Wu's ace-seven and failed to get lucky, setting up a finale between Wu and Zhong.
Heads-up Action

The heads-up match quickly became a back-and-forth battle, with the chip lead exchanging hands on several occasions. Neither player was interested in raising preflop, which led to an abundance of post-flop action that initially favored Wu.
However, Zhong vaulted into the lead in a pivotal hand wherein Zhong flopped two pair against the open-ended straight draw of Wu. Zhong called a couple of semi-bluffs from Wu, and then Wu paid off a hefty bet from Zhong after making top pair on the river.
A few hands later, Zhong found himself on the brink of victory after getting Wu all in holding king-queen against Wu's pocket fours. Zhong flopped a king to leave Wu drawing to two outs, but Wu ended up turning a set to get back into the match.
Zhong answered right back, however, after a brutal cooler left both players with two-card straights. Zhong held the higher straight and doubled through Wu.
Just a few hands later, Wu moved all in with a king-high hand, and Zhong snap-called with an ace and the chip lead. The board ran out clean, and with that, Zhong emerged victorious as the inaugural TLPT Circuit Main Event champion following a roller-coaster heads-up duel.
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