DAY: 11 (Officially known as Day 7).
BIG NEWS: The World Series of Poker main event will have a new title winner this year.
Just three gold bracelet winners remained in a field of 51 players on Tuesday, each having won tournaments at the series other than its $10,000 buy in no-limit Texas Hold 'em main event.
Last year's champion Peter Eastgate was eliminated late Monday in 78th place, winning $68,979. He and 2005 champion Joe Hachem were the last remaining former champions in the tournament. Hachem busted in 103rd place.
Still competing are seven-time gold bracelet winner Phil Ivey and gold bracelet winners Antonio Esfandiari and Blair Rodman.
Prahlad Friedman, another past winner at the series, was eliminated Tuesday in 64th place, along with 2007 World Series of Poker Player of the Year Tom Schneider in 52nd.
STUD OF THE DAY: Leo Margets of Barcelona, Spain, the last woman remaining in the main event. Margets started the day 18th in chips with 3.65 million. Margets, a part-time poker player who works as a marketing manager for an Internet casino site headquartered in Gibraltar, said she has spent much of the tournament picking spots to play with a short stack.
"This is the first moment in the tournament where I actually have a stack that is playable," Margets said.
"I couldn't really do any moves to I had to find good spots and try to get big that way," she said. "If there's a good tournament that allows you to do that, it's the main event of the world series. It's just exploiting the opportunities that arise."
BUSTED OUT: 2003 pot-limit Texas Hold 'em bracelet winner Prahlad Friedman (64th place, $90,344); poker professional Joe Sebok (56th place, $108,047), the stepson of three-time bracelet winner Barry Greenstein and CEO of poker news site PokerRoad.com; two-time bracelet winner Tom Schneider.
UP NEXT: About 27 players play Wednesday until the final table of nine players is determined.
POKER TALK: Three-bet, four-bet: Another term for a re-raise determined by the number of extra bets in the pot. On Tuesday, Antonio Esfandiari three-bet Ryan Fair to 840,000 chips after Fair raised his initial raise to 365,000 chips. Fair responded by four-betting to nearly 1.67 million. Esfandiari folded.
HE SAID WHAT?: "She's a one-woman gang," - 2007 player of the year Tom Schneider, whose wife Julie was among the loudest fans in the crowd on Tuesday. Julie Schneider stood several feet away from her husband behind ropes designated for fans, but yelled in support of him as he gambled all his chips with two pairs. When he won the pot, she yelled: "Stack 'em, stack 'em, stack 'em to the top!"