The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure proved to be another huge success in 2014, despite the most productive attempts of a freak weather system that hit the U.S. grounding flights within the lead as much as the primary Event.
Although there have been 39 events with big paydays, three big tournaments stood out and PokerStars Blog covered them all, but when you need to look who cashed for the way much in all of the other events click here.
The $10,300 PCA Main EventThe PCA Main Event pulled in 1,031s player to wreck throughout the huge $10m be sure that have been submit. That large prize pool ended up paying the highest three finishers greater than 1,000,000 bucks apiece. That trio was made of online phenom Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron, breakthrough Polish talent Dominik Panka, who went directly to take the title after a three-way chop, and EPT Dortmund champ Mike "Timex" McDonald.
Timex, who had days earlier cashed within the Super High Roller for greater than $217k with not up to one big blind, had gave the impression of he might finally break the EPT jinx: nobody had won two EPT Main Event titles in additional than 90 tournaments. It was close, nevertheless it wasn't to be. McDonald needed to accept second place, despite at one point being one card clear of victory. Panka had played fantastically, and Team PokerStars Online's Ike Haxton wasn't backward on lavishing praise on his play in the course of the PCA Live webcast. You just do not get a larger stamp of approval than that. Click here for the general tournament report.
Date: January 7-13, 2014Buy-in: $10,300Players: 1,031Prize pool: $10,070,000
1. Dominik Panka, Poland, PokerStars qualifier, $1,423,096*2. Mike McDonald, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, $1,064,865*3. Isaac Baron, USA, $1,207,599*4. Madis Muur, Estonia, PokerStars qualifier, $581,0405. Daniel Gamez, Guatemala, $447,0406. Shyam Srinivasan, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, $328,0207. Pascal LeFrancois, Canada, PokerStars player, $242,0208. Fabian Ortiz, Argentina, $173,220
The $25,000 High RollerIf you were ever doubtful to whether Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst is among the best players within the world, you simply want to take a look at her PCA performance this year. She cashed in all three of the blue ribbon events and almost won two of them. There's variance after which there's Selbst. The yank took third in both events, but almost took first within the $25k High Roller for the second one year at the bounce. It could was her second major title defence following back-to-back NAPT Mohegan Sun wins.
Once Selbst was out of the picture, Jake Schindler and WSOP Main Event winner Greg Merson chopped up a deal after which settled the development in true High Roller style: they shoved and called blind. You'll be able to examine that and more within the High Roller tournament wrap.
Date: January 10-13, 2014Buy-in: $25,000Game: NLHE 8-handed re-entryEntries: 247Prize pool: $6,051,500
1. Jake Schindler, USA, $1,192,624*2. Greg Merson, USA, $948,996*3. Vanessa Selbst, USA, Team PokerStars Pro, $607,5804. Mustapha Kanit, $492,6005. Robert Mizrachi, USA, $389,7206. Aleksandr Denisov, $295,9207. Ole Schemion, Germany, $216,0408. Joao Viera, $157,960
The $100,000 Super High RollerThe $100,000 Super High Roller has become the hole event of the poker calendar ever since Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov beat Daniel Negreanu heads-up on the PCA in 2011. It never fails to disappoint. AN ENCHANTING nine-handed dance happened with some incredibly shallow stacks, nevertheless it was Brit Paul Newey who finally burst a bubble worth $100,000's. It will need to have been painful, but Newey later cashed within the High Roller to get an excellent chunk of both those buy-ins back.
Fabian Quoss continued in a very good line of German dominance in big buy-in events, but he did need to crack Dan Shak's aces with king-jack offsuit for his tournament life during three-handed play. Poker might be a skill game, but that does not mean you don't want a marginally of luck once in a while. Read more concerning the Quoss-fire hurricane here.
Date: January 5-7, 2014Buy-in: $100,000Entries:: 56 (45 unique)Prize pool: $5,433,120
1. Fabian Quoss, Germany, $1,629,9402. Dan Shak, United States, $1,178,9803. Vanessa Selbst, United States, $760,6404. Antonio Esfandiari, United States, $575,920 5. Matt Glantz, United States, $445,520 6. Tony Gregg, United States, $347,720 7. Ole Schemion, Austria, $277,080 8. Mike McDonald, Canada, $217,320
Find out more concerning the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and its history and records here.
*relates to a last table deal.
Rick Dacey is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.
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