Second Verse
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Yesterday's PCA kickoff event welcomed 38 players to the felt for the $100,000 Super High Roller event. After nine hours of play, that field was trimmed down to 23, those survivors set to return today for the middle day of this three-day conquest. Germany's Tobias Reinkemeier is leading the way thanks to the final hand of Day 1 when his pocket jacks ran down a straight against Shawn Buchanan's pocket aces.
It sounds like a flukey thing that kept him alive, but Reinkemeier is no stranger to success in high-buy-in events. In May of last year, he took down the €25,000 High Roller event at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. There were 113 runners in that event, and Reinkeimer took close to €1 million (~$1.272 million) for that victory. This one's worth a bit more, $1.5 million, and Reinkemeier has himself in the top spot with 896,000 chips to his credit.
His lead is a small one, though, and danger lurks close behind him. Daniel Negreanu, Bryn Kenney, and Nick Schulman traded the chip lead around for the bulk of the day, and they're lined up in the next three places with Daniel "jungleman12" Cates rounding out the top five.
Also still in contention are three members of the PokerStars Team Pro family; Negreanu, Jason Mercier, and Humberto Brenes. They've all drawn Table 1 together.
The players are just beginning to wander into the room, and we're about twenty minutes from our scheduled start time of noon. Sit tight; we'll be back with the table draw for you in a moment.