danishshaikh
01-10-2012, 01:47 PM
As Day 2 starts in the quest to find the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event Champion of 2012 let's take a look back over Days 1a and b or the $10,300 buy in event.
The field, although still large enough to spread over two day 1's was around 30% smaller than last year - perhaps not surprisingly in the aftermath of Black Friday and it's extensive ramifications. However, the event still attracted a respectable 1,072 entrants creating a prize pool of $10,398,400 and a first prize of $2 million.
Day 1a, always the less well attended of the starting days drew a field of 418 players who played through nine levels which effectively halved the field by the end of the days play.
Some big names to fall in Day 1a include Chris Moneymaker, Isaac Haxton, Matt Glantz, Benny "toweliestar" Spindler and Theo Jorgensen.
The day ended with Russian businessman Alexey Repik take a decent chip lead, ending the day nearly 30,000 ahead of his nearest competitor for Day 1a with over 220k chips (from a starting stack on 30,000).
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Russian businessman Alexey Repik
Familiar names to make it out of Day 1a with chips to spare include; Victor Ramdin, Adam Levy, Jon "PearlJammer" Turner, Jordan Morgan, Hoyt Corkins, Tom Marchese and Randy "nanonoko" Lew.
Day 1b was attended by 654 entrants, whittled down to 342 by the end of the days play. By the end of play UK player Alex Venovski was leading the way, bagging up 193,000 chips, still quite a way short of Repik's total from day 1a.
Joining Venovski at the top of the leader board is former November Niner, recent Epic Poker League Event winner and controversial "alleged" money borrowing degenerate David "Chino" Rheem who ended the day on 183,000 with PokerStars high stakes regular Phil "takechip" D'Autueil in fourth (from Day 1b's leader board) with 171k chips.
Other notables making progress to day 2 inlcude; Barry Greenstein, JP Kelly, Michael Mizrachi, Marcel Luske, David Benefield, Betrand "Elky" Grospellier, Humberto Brenes and Lex Veldhuis.
Dumped out from Day 2 were recent high roller champion Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, WSOP Main Event Champ Pius Heinz, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Cliff Josephy, Martin Staszko and Jason Mercier.
Day 2 is now well under way and we'll be right back to you when the chips are bagged in anticipation of day 3.
The field, although still large enough to spread over two day 1's was around 30% smaller than last year - perhaps not surprisingly in the aftermath of Black Friday and it's extensive ramifications. However, the event still attracted a respectable 1,072 entrants creating a prize pool of $10,398,400 and a first prize of $2 million.
Day 1a, always the less well attended of the starting days drew a field of 418 players who played through nine levels which effectively halved the field by the end of the days play.
Some big names to fall in Day 1a include Chris Moneymaker, Isaac Haxton, Matt Glantz, Benny "toweliestar" Spindler and Theo Jorgensen.
The day ended with Russian businessman Alexey Repik take a decent chip lead, ending the day nearly 30,000 ahead of his nearest competitor for Day 1a with over 220k chips (from a starting stack on 30,000).
http://i42.tinypic.com/2rxzpkk.jpg
Russian businessman Alexey Repik
Familiar names to make it out of Day 1a with chips to spare include; Victor Ramdin, Adam Levy, Jon "PearlJammer" Turner, Jordan Morgan, Hoyt Corkins, Tom Marchese and Randy "nanonoko" Lew.
Day 1b was attended by 654 entrants, whittled down to 342 by the end of the days play. By the end of play UK player Alex Venovski was leading the way, bagging up 193,000 chips, still quite a way short of Repik's total from day 1a.
Joining Venovski at the top of the leader board is former November Niner, recent Epic Poker League Event winner and controversial "alleged" money borrowing degenerate David "Chino" Rheem who ended the day on 183,000 with PokerStars high stakes regular Phil "takechip" D'Autueil in fourth (from Day 1b's leader board) with 171k chips.
Other notables making progress to day 2 inlcude; Barry Greenstein, JP Kelly, Michael Mizrachi, Marcel Luske, David Benefield, Betrand "Elky" Grospellier, Humberto Brenes and Lex Veldhuis.
Dumped out from Day 2 were recent high roller champion Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, WSOP Main Event Champ Pius Heinz, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Cliff Josephy, Martin Staszko and Jason Mercier.
Day 2 is now well under way and we'll be right back to you when the chips are bagged in anticipation of day 3.