PCA 2010 News
Introduction
The 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, at the Atlantis Resort & Casino on the exclusive Paradise Island, Bahamas, is now entering its closing stages. All the PokerStars satellite tournaments for online poker players have ended and the real action has moved on to a $25,000 High Roller game, which saw PokerStars professional, Dario Minieri forging an early lead with a stack of nearly 220,000.
Still playing at the poker tables
Last year’s winner, Elky (aka Bertrand Grospellier) is still in the poker game as too are the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Joe Cada and the currently second placed Lex Veldhuis. However, for me one of the best poker plays on day 1 of the High Roller event came from Greg Raymer. In danger of going out Greg went all-in with 21,800 on his pre-flop KS and 8C, with the opposition on 9S with an 8D. The flop brought 9D, 5C and 8H, so not looking too good for Raymer. The turn was 4C but the river turned over KD – changing his fortunes to a more respectable stack of 47,000 chips.
The PCA Main Event
Way to go Harrison - PCA Main Event 2010 winner!
Earlier on the PCA Main Event had been won by 19 year old Harrison Gimbel from Florida. Harrison becomes the youngest ever poker winner at the PCA Main Event, having beaten the 1529 strong field, changing his $1000 entry, via a satellite the night before, into a very cool $2.2 million. Harrison is no stranger to winning at poker, even at his young and tender age – having previously won $70k in his State poker championship and $45k in a recent PokerStars Sunday Million. However, with this big win Harrison’s first thought was to go “car shopping” for that dream set of wheels. The runner-up in the PCA Main Event was Tyler Reiman with veteran Barry Shulman in third place – these two places carried prize money of $1.73 and $1.35 million, so not a bad poker pay day for them either.