PCA 2015 - 24 left in Main Event, Ronaldo out in 26th

57 players started Day 4 of the PCA Main Event, including Brazilian football legend Ronaldo who was in 18th place of the chipcount. By the end of the day there were 24 players left and the remaining field is very tough with Pratyush Buddiga, Shyam Srinivasan, Dylan Linde and Noah Schwartz still in contest for the $1,491,580 first prize.

Day 4 started with Juan Etcheverry in the lead, the Argentian lead the pack with a 1.7 million stack, he was followed by Chance Kornuth and Kevin Schulz.

The field played down to the last 24, the chipleader is Brazilian Eugenio Mattar with 2.67 million chips, and he is followed by a very tough field consisting of Kornuth, Pratyush Buddiga, Shyam "g's zee" Srinivasan, Dylan "ImaLucSac" Linde and Noah Schwartz.

Several big names busted including Naoya Kihara (50th) Ole Schemion (45th) JC Alvarado (44th), Jonathan Duhamel (42nd), Jason Mercier (41st), Olivier Busquet (39th), Shannon Shorr (35th), Stefan Jedlicka (27th) and the Brazilian football legend, Ronaldo, who finished in 26th place.

Ronaldo lost his chips against fellow Brazilian Eugenio Matter. On Level 23 (10,000/20,000/2,000 ante) Ronaldo raised to 80,000 from early position, Mattar re-raised to 200,000 from middle position, and Ronaldo shoved for 536,000 when the action was back on him and Matter called.

Showdown:

Ronaldo: K-T suited
Mattar: Q-Q

The board ran out 5-J-9-8-J and Mattar's hand held up sending Ronaldo to the rail. The Brazilian legend generated a lot of media interest in the past few days and gladly handed out some signatures before leaving the tournament area.

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Eugenio Mattar - 2.673.000

Emrah Cakmak - 2.037.000 
Chance Kornuth - 2.026.000 
Pratyush Buddiga - 1.629.000 
Andreas Samuelsson - 1.628.000 
Ratharam Sivagnanam - 1.341.000 
Niklas Hambitzer - 1.317.000 
Shyam Srinivasan - 1.310.000 
Diego Ventura - 1.154.000 
Juan Martin Pastor - 1.085.000 5
Uwe Ritter - 1.062.000 
Maurice Hawkins - 962.000 
Jim Collopy - 799.000 
Rami Boukai - 769.000 
Dylan Linde - 709.000 
Scott Baumstein - 543.000 
Juan Etcheverry - 542.000 
Benjamin Pollak - 519.000 
Tim Reilly - 511.000 
Ambrose Ng - 485.000 
Kevin Schulz - 441.000 
Mayu Roca - 313.000 
Felipe Ramos - 282.000 
Noah Schwartz - 238.000

Payouts:

1. $1.491.580

2. $907.080
3. $641.140
4. $482.820
5. $380.720
6. $285.740
7. $203.420
8. $140.900
9. $111.440
10-11. $91.420
12-13. $81.760
14-15. $73.840
16-17. $64.940
18-20. $58.020
21-23. $50.100
24-27. $42.180