Chronic stack builder Bruce Pace is at it again. This time he jedi-mind tricked a player into shoving for 60,000 into his top pair on a jack-high flop.
Pace's held when the turn and river bricked and he accepted the gift graciously.
That 150,000-chip pot and a whole lot of over-betting has Pace setting the pace as the first player past 200,000 here.
Veteran Television and and Film actor Kirk Acevedo is working on a TV project in nearby Toronto, Canada and on breaks in filming has come up to play a couple of events at Summer Slam this year.
Although he's been featured films like Boiler Room, Invincible and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and appeared in top TV shows including The Walking Dead, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Fringe, Acevedo is also an avid poker player.
He's got $99,570 in career tournament earnings and looking to add to it, sitting on a threatening 115,000-chip stack here in the Main Event.
A solid grinder, Acevedo appears to have steadily built it up all day and continues to climb the counts without a lot of big confrontations.
Syracuse, NY's Jonathan Giordano has a smooth grind going.
He's pushing close to 200,000 now and hasn't had any big all-in confrontations or played any massive pots.
In fact, he told PokerNews he hasn't played a pot worth more than 40,000 chips all day, winning droves of small ones throughout and working with the structure like a seasoned vet that he is with $50,312 in tournament earnings up and down East Coast.