Credit to Stephen Bartley...
If you've been following the live coverage of the PCA Main Event for the past few days you might have been able to take a reasonable guess at how long it would take to lose 24 players from the remaining cast of 48 today. Rather than injecting caution into play the thought of a guaranteed $52,000 has had the opposite effect. We were supposed to finish on 24 players, then three players busted within moments of each other, meaning only 22 will return tomorrow.
At the end of a five-and-a-half-hour-day, Ana Marquez was not only the last woman standing sitting, but she was the overall chip leader.
The bulk of her stack came in a hand, worth 2.5 million, against Philippe Plouffe. Marquez flopped a set of jacks to beat Plouffe's turned set of nines. But this was an impressive all round performance that included the elimination of Ilan Rouah and taking half a million chips from Bolivar Palacios. It leaves her with 3,805,000 chips ahead of Day 5.
It's not just the chip leader making headlines. Right behind her is Chris Moneymaker. The Team PokerStars Pro is just 50,000 behind the Spaniard, bagging up 3,765,000 tonight after a day spent under the television lights on the feature table. Moneymaker has yet to finish a day outside the top six. Dmitriy Stelmak is in third place with 3,340,000 while last night's leader Chris Oliver is among the chasing pack with 3,275,000.
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http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/pca/20...nd-077474.html
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Table one
Seat 1. Bryan Colin, 1,925,000
Seat 2. Max Weinberg, 860,000
Seat 3. empty
Seat 4. Sam Stein, 3,085,000
Seat 5. Mike Sowers, 3,180,000
Seat 6. Joel Patchell, 650,000
Seat 7. Chris Moneymaker, 3,765,000
Seat 8. James St.Hilaire, 600,000
Table two
Seat 1. Gregory Baksic, 1,400,000
Seat 2. Calvin Anderson, 980,000
Seat 3. Grayson Ramage, 1,160,000
Seat 4. Galen Hall, 2,305,000
Seat 5. Martin Mathis, 2,385,000
Seat 6. Bolivar Palacios, 2,875,000
Seat 7. Philippe Plouffe, 2,480,000
Seat 8. Chris Oliver, 3,275,000
Table three
Seat 1. Anton Ionel, 1,670,000
Seat 2. Dmitry Stelmak, 3,340,000
Seat 3. Shayne Khanna, 720,000
Seat 4. Michael Pesek, 2,260,000
Seat 5. Walid Bou-Habib, 1,665,000
Seat 6. Rafael Golka, 2,220,000
Seat 7. empty
Seat 8. Ana Marquez, 3,805,000
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Cheers,
Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist
