Event 3: 2nd Place - Eller

$500 + $60 No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)

 Tim Ace Eller (High Point, NC) 

$28,809

Tim Ace Eller pushes 50 bb all in with A♦ Q♠ and is in a coin flip against Rob Quigley's 9♥ 9♠.

Eller loses the race and finishes runner-up.

"This is the highlight of my poker career to date and I've been playing since I was 16," says the 52-year-old businessman after earning his largest cash.

Eller says he'll return to North Carolina to work, but expects to return for the Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship event (Jan. 27 - Feb. 1).

 Quigley (left) Celebrates as Eller Offers Congratulations