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2012 PCA Main Event – Day 1B Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2012-01-10 08:40
The second day 1 flight of the 2012 PCA Main Event surpassed expectations by drawing a starting field of 654 players. Together with those who had registered the previous day, that took the total number of participants to 1,072. The prize-pool was set too: those who make it to the money will share $10,398,400. The money bubble is set to 160th place and min-cash is $15k. The winner of the event will take home $2 million.
327 players managed to survive the day’s green felt hostilities. Alex Venovski was the one to clinch the lead, with a stack of 193k chips.
Venovski had a good start to his day: he amassed more than 180k chips before the dinner break, and from there on out he wielded his large stack skillfully, not only preserving his advantage, but adding some to it too.
There weren’t too many other players to cross the 100k mark, but those who did were quite a bunch indeed. Chino Rheem finished the day in second place, having built a 182,900 chip stack. Philip D’Auteuil, Jonathan Jaffe and Luca Pagano all finished with stacks larger than 100k too.
Rheem was responsible for one of the most interesting pots of the day. Towards the end of the action, he got his chips into the middle against Tyler Kenney, firmly believing he was holding pocket rockets. He had apparently made a grievous mistake though, as the pocket hand he flipped over was an A,2o. An A fell on the river nonetheless to give him the pot and to send his opponent packing.
PokerStars’ Arnaud Mattern did extremely well too: he picked up pocket rockets twice during level 3 and he took full advantage of them both times, getting his stack up to 150k. He later bled some chips, but he still finished with a more than healthy 139k stack.
Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Vanessa Rousso and Eugene Katchalov were all eliminated.
