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It's an exciting time for the 100 players who remain. As one player told us during the last break -- employing understatement -- "This is pretty fun."
Of course, one of those 100 -- Andrew "Foucault" Brokos -- is well familiar with the feeling.
This marks Brokos' third straight year of making the top 100 in the WSOP Main Event, having finished 35th in 2009 and 87th in 2010. In fact, Brokos has cashed five of the last six years in the Main Event, a feat which is very likely unmatched among all the many thousands who've played the event since 2006.
As Phil Collins chipped up to more than 10 million in chips on the feature table after eliminating Lance Steinberg, Eli Elezra moved the last of the last of his money into the middle on the secondary feature table with , only to run into the of Jared Vengrin.
The board ran out ace-high and that signalled the end of Elezra's run in the 2011 WSOP Main Event.