PCA 2014 Main Event - 215 Players Reach Day 3

The field has dropped to only 215 by the end of Day 2 of the PCA 2014 $10,000 Main Event. WSOP champion Pascal Lefrancois is in the lead, slightly ahead of Sam ‘Str8$$$Homey’ Greenwood.

Day 2 of the PCA 2014 $10,000 Main Event saw a total of 658 players sit down to the tables; 632 of them qualified from Day 1A and 1B, while another 26 registered on the day, in concordance with the late registration regulations of the tournament. These added up to a total of 1,031 registrations, accumulating a prize pool of $10,070,000 in the $10 million guaranteed event.

WSOP 2010 $1,500 NLHE champion Pascal Lefrancois managed to climb to the lead during the day: the Canadian bagged 412,000 in chips. However, he is only slightly ahead of FTOPS and SCOOP title holder online multi-table tournament specialist Sam ‘Str8$$$Homey’ Greenwood, who has a stack of 402,500. The average chip count is 143,860.

A total of 215 players remained by the end of Day 2, only 64 eliminations away from the in the money finishes. The field includes the likes of Taylor ‘taypaur’ Paur, seasoned PokerStars Pro Marcel Luske, two times WSOP champion Athanasios Polychronopoulos ($1,500 NLHE titles 2011, 2013), WSOP 2009 Main Event 3rd finisher Antoine Saout or Humberto Brenes’ borther, WPT winner Eric Brenes.

Top 10 chip counts after Day 1A and 1B are as follows:

1st: Pascal Lefrancois – 412,000
2nd: Samuel Greenwood – 402,500
3rd: Matthew Berkey – 372,100
4th: Roger Teska – 369,700
5th: Brian Altman – 362,100
6th: Max Silver – 345,200
7th: Keven Stammen – 342,500
8th: Christopher Ulsrud – 338,600
9th: Tyler Reiman – 331,800
10th: Jason Helder – 328,000

Additional chip counts of interest are below:

15th: Maria Ho – 300,800
22nd: Antoine Saout – 265,500
24th: Jude Ainsworth – 264,900
29th: Matt Stout – 257,900
32nd: Vanessa Selbst – 251,000
35th: Mike McDonald – 240,800     
43rd: Marc-Andre Ladouceur – 208,700
52nd: Sylvain Loosli – 189,100
53rd: Thomas Hall – 189,000
54th: Greg Merson – 188,800
58th: Angel Guillen – 185,600
69th: Dario Minieri – 168,500
75th: Chris Klodnicki – 154,500
84th: Sergio Aido – 138,200
85th: David Baker – 138,000
88th: Liv Boeree – 135,700
92nd: Marcel Luske – 134,600
100th: Dan Smith – 127,800
108th: George Danzer – 121,000
116th: Ben Warrington – 116,400
127th: Davidi Kitai – 108,700
132nd: Ole Schemion – 103,900
143rd: Leo Margets – 92,500
158th: Amanda Musumeci – 76,000
159th: Alex Kravchenko – 75,700
181st: Antonio Esfandiari – 57,000
182nd: Caio Pessagno – 54,300     
186th: Carter Gill – 52,000
194th: Isaac Baron – 47,000
198th: Jason Mercier – 43,800
203rd: Humberto Brenes – 39,000
214th: Casey Kastle – 21,900

Prizes:

1st: $1,820,420
2nd: $1,101,080
3rd: $774,060
4th: $581,040
5th: $447,040
6th: $328,020
7th: $242,020
8th: $173,220
9th: $135,400
10-11th: $112,400
12-13th: $100,700
14-15th: $90,700
16-17th: $80,700
18-20th: $70,700
21-23rd: $60,700
24-27th: $50,900
28-31st: $43,300
32-39th: $37,600
40-55th: $32,000
56-71st: $27,100
72-95th: $22,800
96-119th: $20,300
120-143rd: $18,200
144-151st: $17,600