In the most recent episode of Poker Eh on QuadJacks Radio (airs Thursdays at 9PM ET/6PM PT on QuadJacks.com), we discussed which Canadian players we should look at in 2012 - one of those players was Xuan Liu - and Liu sure is making us look good early!
Liu (2011 PTPR Rank: 518th) had a great day Tuesday - her Day 3 culminated with a pocket jacks vs. pocket sevens showdown with Mikhail Shikworich. Liu's jacks held up and Shikworich was shown the door.
There was another exciting hand earlier in the day where Liu's pocket queens were in a three-way all in against pocket jacks and Andrew Badecker's ace-king. Liu's hand held once again. From that point on, it seemed like nothing was going to stand in Xuan Liu's way on Tuesday.
The chip leader heading into Day 4 is fellow Canadian Philippe D'Auteuil. D'Auteuil takes over from Faraz Jaka as the chip leader. D'Auteuil (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) already has points on the board this season. D'Auteuil was sixth in the 5K PLO Turbo 8-Max event over the weekend here in the Bahamas.
The aforementioned Jaka (2011 PTPR Rank: 2094th) still maintained his big chip stack - he is now third heading into Wednesday's play. Alex Fitzgerald (2011 PTPR Rank: 788th), Anthony Gregg (2011 PTPR Rank: 2401th), Kyle Julius (2011 PTPR Rank: 1960th), Luca Pagano (2011 PTPR Rank: 201st) and David Peters (2011 PTPR Rank: 256th) all appear in the Top 10.
NOTABLE CHIP STACKS:
Philippe D'Auteuil 1472000
Faraz Jaka 1,220,000 (Day 2 Chip Leader)
Alex Fitzgerald 1,154,000
Anthony Gregg 1,129,000
Kyle Julius 1,019,000
Luca Pagano 863,000
David Peters 857,000
Alex Kuzmin 741,000
Xuan Liu 680,000
Bill Chen 668,000
Ruben Visser 666,000
Eddy Sabat 594,000
Byron Kaverman 536,000
Casey Kastle 453,000
Andrew Badecker 406,000
Jan Heitmann 395,000
Barry Greenstein 379,000
Erik Cajelais 333,000
Martin Jacobson 322,000
Corey Burbick 278,000
William Reynolds 269,000
Nicholas Grippo 265,000
Sam Chartier 260,000
Sergio Garcia 235,000
Galen Hall 168,000
Chris Klodnicki 157,000
Arnaud Mattern 155,000
Yevgeniy Timoshenko 122,000
NOTABLE DAY 3 ELIMINATIONS:
Tommy Vedes, Barry Shulman, Javier Dominguez, Eric Wasserson, Leo Fernandez, Phil Collins, Adam Geyer, Christian De Leon, Carlos Mortensen, Connor Drinan, Andrew Lichtenberger, former PCA Champ Harrison Gimbel, Randy Lew, Noah Boeken, Shawn Buchanan, Liv Boeree, Adam Levy, David Benefield, Juan Manuel Pastor, Shane Schleger, Jeffrey Forrest, Pat Pezzin, Nicholas Chouity and J.C. Alvarado.
We're playing down to the final 24 players on Wednesday and Sergio Garcia and defending champ Galen Hall are still in this thing!
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January 7-13, 2011
Atlantis Resort and Casino | Bahamas
Buy-in: $10,300 | Prizepool: $10,398,400 | Entries: 1,072
PTS AT STAKE:
1st place 160
2nd place 100
3rd place 85
4th place 75
5th place 70
6th place 65
7th place 60
8th place 55
9th place 45
10th place 35
11th place 30
12-14th place 28
15-17th place 25
18-20th place 22
21-23rd place 18
24-27th place 15
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