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2012 PCA Main Event – Day 2 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Wed, 2012-01-11 15:41
544 players returned to the tables on the second day of the 2012
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event. Six levels of action went into the day, at the end of which only 184 players were still standing. Faraz Jaka played extremely well on Day 2, and when play was called, he had the largest stack: 902.5k chips.
Jaka had a solid stack of 129k when the action kicked off and he put his chips to great use. He clinched the chip lead almost as soon as the action commenced: the end of the first level found him atop the provisional leader board. He had around $700k in his stack when thanks to some perverted twist of fate, Chino Rheem landed next to him at the table. Rheem had about 300k chips, but Jaka’s proximity wasn’t at all beneficial for him. He held on for about 2 hours, but by that time he barely had any chips left.
Having crippled his prey thoroughly, Jaka then moved in for the kill. Rheem shoved all-in holding an Ac, 9c and he made the call with a dominating Ah, Jh. The flop made it very clear from the beginning whom it would favor: the A,J,2 flop gave Jaka a two pair. The turn and the river changed nothing and Rheem was bounced. On the very next hand, Jaka ended the tournament life of another player. He didn’t slow down at all till the last level of the day when he managed to shed some chips, but his position at the top was still in no danger whatsoever.
Other players who had good day 2s and finished on impressive stacks were Cristian Folescu, Erik Cajelais and Phil D’Auteuil.
Several of the pros who were at the tables at the beginning of the day, had to settle for the proverbial wooden spoon. Lex Veldhuis, Dario Minieri, Humberto Brenes and John Racener were all eliminated.
