Madis Muur Leads PCA 2014 Main Event Final Eight

The PCA 2014 $10,000 Main Event reached the Final Table day. The final eight is led by Madis Muur in the race for the $1,820,420 first prize.

Madis Muur

The weekend saw the field of the PCA 2014 $10,000 Main Event melt from 215 to only eight. On Friday, Canadian WSOP champion Pascal Lefrancois had the chip lead but, while surviving the day, dropped back significantly by the time the stacks got bagged and tagged. British pro Max Silver took over, accompanied by Vanessa Selbst in the top ten, among others. Players reached the in the money finishes and, eventually, a total of 72 of them secured their return on Day 4.

By Saturday night, only 20 of those returning remained and Madis Muur was already sitting behind the largest stack, just ahead of Mike McDonald, WSOP 2009 Main Event 3rd finisher Antoine Saout, a revived Lefrancois and Max Silver, just to mention the very top of the field.

On Day 5, play started on Level 24 (3,000/12,000/24,000) and first out was Roger Teska, whose pocket eights were cracked by Muur’s sixes, improving to a straight. Robert Auer, Kyle Sorel, Adrian Bussman, Saout and Allon Allison followed. The last elimination of the same level was Pal Zsibrita, calling all-in for 520,000 on McDonald‘s bet on the K J 2 7 6 board and showing K Q against the latter’s K J two pair.

Jorgen Sandvoll Lindebo, Fabio Freitas, Grayson Ramage and Tom Hall were also out before the eight-handed final table formulated on Level 26 (5,000/20,000/40,000). Lefrancois raised to 85,000 from early position, online multi-table tournament ace as well as FTOPS and Sunday Million winner Isaac ‘westmenloAA’ Baron called from the Hijack and so did Silver from the Blind. The flop came Q J K and they all checked. On the 8 turn, Silver shoved his 600,000, Lefrancois called and Baron folded.

Silver: A 4
Lefrancois: K T

River: K

Lefrancois won with a three of a kind and Silver was out in 9th place.

The Final Tabel kicks off today at 20:00 CET with Muur still in the chip lead, ahead of McDonald and Lefrancois in the top positions.

The Final Table seat draw is as follows:

Seat 1: Pascal Lefrancois – 5,595,000
Seat 2: Dominik Panka – 3,695,000
Seat 3: Shyam Srinivasan – 1,505,000
Seat 4: Isaac Baron – 2,995,000
Seat 5: Fabian Ortiz – 3,040,000
Seat 6: Mike McDonald – 5,605,000
Seat 7: Madis Muur – 6,205,000
Seat 8: Daniel Gamez – 1,885,000

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