Poker NewsMuch more than just a poker blog...
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.
On Day 5 players will play down to the final table, you can see the chipcounts and payouts, as well as the live stream (starting from 18:00 CET) below:
If you want to qualify for an EPT, you can do it on PokerStars [3] where there are qualifiers running every day.
PokerStars room review and registration [3]
[4]
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