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2012 PCA Main Event – Day 4 Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Fri, 2012-01-13 13:56
64 players returned to the tables on day 4 of the PCA’s 2012 Main Event. The objective was to play down to the final 24, and that’s exactly what the field accomplished in one of the shortest but most action packed days of the
poker tournament. Faraz Jaka started the day with one of the largest stacks and he put his chips to work well: at the end of the day, he was the one sporting the largest stack. He managed to build up a monster stack, leading the rest of the field by more than 1.5 million chips at the end of the day.
Alex Fitzgerald played well too: he finished in second place. The other start of the day large stacks fared well too: Phil D’Auteuil finished 3rd followed by Anthony Gregg and Byron Kaverman.
Day 4 was smooth sailing for Jaka indeed: he couldn’t make a bad move. One of the most interesting hands of the day saw him go up against Martin Jacobson. The two players got around 300k into the pot on the Ah,3c,2h,Qs,4h board. Jaka then put another 500k into the middle, sending Jacobson into the tank. He eventually made the call, only to see Jaka flip over a Jh, 9h for the unbeatable flush. He didn’t even show his hand.
Even though that pot had already put his stack over the 3 million chip mark, Jaka didn’t stop there. A little later, he eliminated Lawrence Greenberg for another huge pot. He then moved on and bounced Sam Chartier and Eddie Sabat. Barry Greenstein also made Jaka’s victims’ list by the end of the day.
Galen Hall had played well through the first few days. Being the reigning champion of the event, he drew plenty of press attention too. Unfortunately, on day 4 he would not be around for long: he was the first player who earned a trip to the rail.
