Level 8 at the World Poker Tour Alpha8 $100,000 super high roller event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open saw the exit of Chris Klodnicki in 15th place. On his final hand Klodnicki shoved all in with pocket queens against Jeff Gross, who called him down with in the hole on a board reading . Klodnicki was eliminated on the hand and Gross grew his stack to 177,000.

Jason Mercier continues to put on an impressive display of consistency as the chip leader with 343,000 but JC Tran is getting pretty close to catching up with him. Tran holds 336,000. The short stacks are Matt Glantz (42,500)  and Daniel Perper (55,000).
Table 89

Seat 1: JC Tran – 336,000 (168 bb)
Seat 2: Chris Klodnicki – Eliminated
Seat 3: Matt Glantz – 42,500 (21 bb)
Seat 3: Jeff Gross – 177,000 (88 bb)
Seat 4: Bill Perkins – 225,000 (112 bb)
Seat 5: Daniel Perper – 100,000 (62 bb)
Seat 6: Jason Mercier – 343,000 (171 bb)
Seat 7: Isaac Haxton – 73,000 (36 bb)

Table 90

Seat 1: Brandon Stevens – 55,000 (27 bb)
Seat 2: Phillip Gruissem – 95,000 (47 bb)
Seat 3: Dan Shak – 65,000 (32 bb)
Seat 4: Daniel Alaei – 148,000 (74 bb)
Seat 5: Joseph Cheong – 163,000 (81 bb)
Seat 6: Erik Seidel – 94,000 (47 bb)
Seat 7: Steve Silverman – 229,000 (114 bb)