During the break, a few of the players were relocated to feature and secondary feature tables. The main feature table up on the stage is reigning World Series of Poker Main Event champion Ryan Riess' table. He's joined by Bryn Kenney, Jesse Chinni, Mike McDonald, Dani Stern, Guy Laliberté, and Martin Finger.
There are then two secondary features tables located on the outside of the main stage. One table contains Lawrence Greenberg, Steve O'Dwyer, Jason Koon, Jason Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Philipp Gruissem, Timothy Adams. The other contains Scott Seiver, Paul Newey, Antonio Esfandiari, Dan Shak, Tom Marchese, Isaac Haxton, and JC Alvarado.
Our access will be somewhat limited to the main feature table, but we will do our best to provide as many updates as possible.
Poker's winningest female player, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, has joined the party. She's making her third appearance in a $100,000 buy-in event, and will be looking for similar success to what she found at last year's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
At the 2013 PCA, Selbst won the $25,000 High Roller for a massive score of $1,424,420. She defeated Vladimir Troyanovskiy heads up and earned the second largest score of her career.
Fabian Quoss joined the field during the break. Quoss is coming off his best year ever for poker, earning $1,344,883 in prize money and eclipsing the million-dollar mark for the first year in his career. Quoss is notably part of "Team Germany" and has $3,327,524 in career live tournament earnings.
Fabian Quoss opened the action with a raise to 4,500 from UTG+1. Igor Kurganov called from the next seat over and action trickled around to Matt Glantz in the big blind. Glantz cut out a three-bet to 16,600 and Quoss called. Kurganov stuck around as well and the three players took a flop.
The dealer fanned on the felt and Glantz dropped 26,000 into the center of the table. Quoss called and Kurganov quickly let go of his cards. The on the turn prompted two checks which allowed the to finish off the board on the river.
Glantz fired out one last bet of 55,000 and Quoss leaned back in his seat, grabbed his jacket, and put it on.
"I'm not raising," said Quoss who sat pondering for well over a minute.
Ultimately he decided to release his cards and Glantz was pushed the pot.
Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and John Juanda have both been eliminated.
Grospellier was the first to go, and he was dispatched during a hand that ran over into the last break by Justin Bonomo. Bonomo moved to roughly 550,000 in chips with the elimination.
After busting, Juanda inquired about how to reenter and confirmed with event staff that he could reenter all the way up until the start of play tomorrow, so we'll likely see him back in the mix at least one more time.
Another member of "Team Germany" coming off his best poker year ever is Tobias Reinkemeier, and he's now in the field. After winning $3,231,707 last year, Reinkemeier brought his career live tournament earnings up to $7,517,039. That's good enough for third on the German all-time money list.
After unknown action, Philipp Gruissem was all in and at risk for around 85,000 on a board of . Jason Koon had him at risk, but never revealed his holdings after Gruissem showed for trip nines.
Koon fell to 145,000 chips, while Gruissem has around 290,000.
The flop read and Chris Klodnicki checked over to Joseph Cheong. Cheong fired out 15,000 and Klodnicki called to see the hit the board on fourth street. Another check from Klodnicki prompted Cheong to move 26,000 forward. Klodnicki called for a second time.
The completed the board and Klodnicki checked for a third time. Cheong dropped out 55,000 which sent Klodnicki into the tank. Eventually, Klodnicki called and showed which was good enough to take down the pot.
When we arrived at the table, Antonio Esfandiari was all in and at risk for 122,400 with against Isaac Haxton's . The board read , and the dealer completed it with the on the river.
Esfandiari doubled to 280,000 chips, while Haxton fell to 105,000.
A few hands later, Haxton was all in for 80,600 on a flop of . Paul Newey had him at risk with , which was well behind Haxton's . Neither the on the turn or the on the river improved Newey's hand, and Haxton doubled to 215,000 chips.
Action folded to Steven Silverman in the hijack seat, and he opened with a raise to 4,200. Daniel Colman was in the cutoff seat, and he reraised to 12,000. Play got back to Silverman, and he called.
The flop came down , and Silverman took his time before leading with a bet of 21,500. Colman folded, and Silverman won the pot.
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on the felt and Glantz dropped 26,000 into the center of the table. Quoss called and Kurganov quickly let go of his cards. The 
on the turn prompted two checks which allowed the 
to finish off the board on the river.
, and Juanda called. Altergott tabled the 
for a full house, aces over deuces, and Juanda mucked.
. Jason Koon had him at risk, but never revealed his holdings after Gruissem showed 
and Chris Klodnicki checked over to Joseph Cheong. Cheong fired out 15,000 and Klodnicki called to see the 
hit the board on fourth street. Another check from Klodnicki prompted Cheong to move 26,000 forward. Klodnicki called for a second time.
completed the board and Klodnicki checked for a third time. Cheong dropped out 55,000 which sent Klodnicki into the tank. Eventually, Klodnicki called and showed 
which was good enough to take down the pot.
against Isaac Haxton's 
. The board read 
on the river.
on the turn or the 
on the river improved Newey's hand, and Haxton doubled to 215,000 chips.
