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PCA 2012: Haxton takes the lead on Day 1 of the Super High Roller
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2012 is well and effectively launched as the first event, the first day was held yesterday. The Super High Roller opened the series of tournament at the poker room of Atlantis Resort & Casino in the Bahamas with a field of 30 players. They have not beaten the record attendance of last year which was 38 participants, but spectators see there the arrival of the biggest names in poker in the world. Indeed, the Super High Roller of $ 100,000 buy-in was attended by players like Erik Seidel, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Jason Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Jonathan Duhamel, Viktor Blom, Tom Marchese, etc. This new edition of the Super High Roller is different from previous events by the possibility for eliminated players to return in the tournament (re-entry) before the end of each day.
The day of this poker meeting has seen the elimination of 12 players and to everyone's surprise, Eugene Katchalov was among those who say good bye to the next level. Thus, 18 players were qualified for Day 2 with Isaac Haxton as chipleader with a stack of 1.2 million chips. The other players are far behind ie Viktor Blom in second place with 875,000 chips, Erik Seidel (753,000), Jonathan Duhamel (729,000), Humberto Brenes (609,000), Mike McDonald (577,000), Jason Mercier (514,000), Chance Kornuth (444,000), Galen Hall (380,000), Scott Seiver (365,000), Daniel Negreanu (346,000), Sam Stein (344,000), Dan Shak (182,000), Yevgeniy Timoshenko (174,000), Will Molson (164,000), Tom Marchese (158,000), Bertrand Grospellier (112,000) and David Sands (47,000). The winner at the end of the three-day tournament will win a whopping $ 1,254,400.
Source: James WILLIAMS
Thursday, 12 January 2012
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