Tyler Reiman, last year's PCA runner-up, has had a rough start to the day. Most recently, Reiman held 
and doubled an opponent in Seat 1 who held 
on a 
board. With that hit, Reiman is down to 42,000.
Eddy Sabat is up to 109,000 in chips after winnings two nice pots on back-to-back hands. First, he busted a player with 
to pocket queens thanks to an ace on the river. Then, he took a sizable pot off Team PokerStars Pro Sandra Naujoks with a set of eights for another boost.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
280,000 | 50,000 |
|
230,000 | 131,000 |
|
200,000 | 5,800 |
|
190,000 | 111,000 |
|
175,000 | 11,800 |
|
160,000 | 118,800 |
|
110,000 | 35,600 |
|
102,000 | 21,200 |
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
|
90,000 | 5,000 |
|
75,000 | 10,500 |
|
70,000 | 13,400 |
|
60,000 | -13,000 |
|
|
60,000 | 16,200 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
175,000 | 41,400 |
|
162,000 | 72,400 |
|
160,000 | 122,100 |
|
154,000 | 12,100 |
|
140,000 | 66,600 |
|
125,000 | 70,400 |
|
90,000 | -28,500 |
|
80,000 | 25,100 |
|
60,000 | -3,300 |
|
55,000 | -5,400 |
|
40,000 | -37,700 |
|
40,000 | -26,900 |
|
38,000 | -185,000 |
|
33,000 | -15,400 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion and Team PokerStars Pro (USA) member, Joe Cada, was seated at the same table as fellow pros Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (France) and Jose "Nacho" Barbero (Argentina), which was certainly one of the toughest tables in the room. Unfortunately, Cada grew short stack and could not manage a comeback. He has been eliminated from the 2011 PCA.
As told to us by a player at Harrison Gimbel's former table, last year's PCA champ had about 25,000 remaining when he got it in with against an opponent's 
. Gimbel was unable to catch up, bringing his 2011 PCA Main Event to an end.
Allen Kessler was in for 18,900 with 
against David Benyamine's 
.
It started out well for Kessler when the flop came down 
, but the turn brought the 
and spelled the end for Kessler.
Benyamine is up to about 120,000.
A player in middle position raised to 4,500 only to have the next player in Seat 9 reraise to 12,000. Jason Senti then moved all in from the hijack for 72,000. Action folded back to the middle position player and he moved all in over the top for around 130,000. Seat 9 got out of the way and the cards were turned up:
Senti: 
Middle Position: 
It was off to the races as the board ran out 
. Senti's jacks held and he received a double to nearly 160,000!
It wasn't a massive pot, but Noah Schwartz is back up to about 45,000 after his 
held against Yuval Bronshtein's .
The board ran out 
and Schwartz secured the win. Bronshtein is still strong with about 145,000.
Jonathan Jaffe won a monster pot at the end of Level 11 to vault to the chip lead.
As told to us by Jaffe, Carol Ventura raised to 3,800 from the cutoff and Jaffe popped it to 11,600 from the small blind. Ventura called and the flop came down 
. Jaffe bet 11,000 and was called, leading to the 
turn card. Jaffe settled on 17,000, but was faced with a raise to 37,000 by Ventura. After a few moments Jaffe called and when the 
hit the river, he checked. Ventura sat motionless for about two minutes before she announced all in.
Jaffe snap-called with the nuts, 
. Since Ventura had the last aggressive act, she was forced to show her 
. The dealer broke down the chips and Jaffe's all-in call was for 144,400.
The end result?
Jaffe: Up to about 411,000
Ventura: Down to about 4,000
