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 two gold bracelet winners remained in a field of 27 players late Tuesday, each having won WSOP tournaments other than the main event: seven-time winner Phil Ivey and 2004 pot-limit Hold'Em champ Antonio Esfandiari.
Last year's champion Peter Eastgate was eliminated in 78th place, winning $68,979. The 2005 champion Joe Hachem busted in 103rd place.
STUDETTE OF THE DAY: Leo Margets of Barcelona, Spain, the last woman remaining in the main event. Margets started the day 18th in chips. She is a part-time poker player who works as a marketing manager for an Internet casino site headquartered in Gibraltar.
"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 so 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; last year's third-place finisher Dennis Phillips (45th, $178,857).
UP NEXT: The remaining 27 players play Wednesday until the final table of nine players is determined.
POKER TALK: Three-bet, four-bet: Another term for a re-raises. On Tuesday, Antonio Esfandiari three-bet Ryan Fair to 840,000 chips after Fair had already re-raised. 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. When he won a pot, Julie Schneider yelled: "Stack 'em, stack 'em, stack 'em to the top!"
