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2012 PCA Main Event – Day 1A Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Tue, 2012-01-10 01:42
The first day 1 flight of the 2012
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event was a 9-level long affair. Having attracted a starting field of 418 players, Day 1A played into the organizers expectations. Alexey Repik was the one who managed to clinch the chip lead at the end of the day, having built up a 220k+ stack.
He started off on a 30k stack just like everyone else, but he must’ve done something better than the other players, because his end of the day stack will indeed be a tough one to best for the Day1B participants. Repik played well and although he did not overdo it with the aggression, he adopted a quirky style of play which caught most of his opponents off-guard. His bets were more generous than usual: preflop, he raised several times the BB and his post-flop bets were mostly actual pot-size ones.
Although he did pull away from the field by quite a bit, Repik was followed by a couple of players who did extremely well too: Richard Bruning managed to build a stack of 193.1k chips. Salvatore Bianco wasn’t far behind either: he finished the day on a 192.4k stack. Faraz Jaka and Adam Levy were two of the “name” players to finish close to the top. Jaka finished with 129.5k chips while Levy had a stack of 115k when the action was called.
Levy had more than his fair share of ups and down through the day. He started off well, and soon he had around 60k chips, having doubled his starting stack of 30k. He then picked up a pair of Ks and ran them straight into an opponent’s pocket rockets to have his stack cut to about 11k. He fought back fiercely though and he eventually managed to shoot past the 100k mark after he won a coin-flip against Jamie Rosen’s pocket Qs with A,Ko.
Victor Ramdin, Pat Pezzin and Jude Ainsworth made it to day 2 too.
