It was folded to a short-stacked Uwe Ritter who was in the cutoff. He moved all in for his last 99,000 and was called by the big stack of Kevin Schulz in the small blind. The big blind folded and Ritter tapped the table and stood up, knowing his tournament life was on the line. He tabled and was pleased when he saw that he was ahead of the that Schulz held.
The flop came keeping Ritter in the lead. The turn changed nothing as it was the .
The dealer put out the on the river and Ritter did a double fist pump.
"Yea, come on," he said quietly as he took his seat, tapping the table, and then letting out a big exhale.
Welcome to Day 4 of PokerNews' coverage of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event.
The starting field of 816 entrants is down to just 57 players, each with hopes of capturing this prestigious title, as well as the first-place prize of $1,491,580. On top of the chip counts by a solid margin is Juan Etcheverry with 1,706,000. Rounding out the top five is Chance Kornuth (1,165,000), Kevin Schulz (1,1,65,000), Juan Martin Pastor (930,000) and Jim Collopy (889,000).
Others still in the field include Rami Boukai (625,000), Pratyush Buddiga (589,000), Noah Schwartz (558,000), soccer legend Ronaldo (512,000), PokerStars Team Online's Naoya Kihara (509,000), Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier (447,000), Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel (266,000), Olivier Busquet (201,000) and Shannon Shorr (135,000), to name a few.
The plan for the day is to play another five levels or to play down to 16 players. The cards will be in the air at noon local time, roughly 35 minutes from now.
Keep it here at PokerNews throughout the day for live updates on all of the exciting action as the quest to crown the next PCA Main Event champion continues!