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2012 PCA Main Event – Day 5 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2012-01-13 13:58
24 players bellied up to the tables on Day 5 of the
2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’s Main Event. Faraz Jaka had a massive lead over the rest of the field at the beginning of the day and he preserved his advantage for the final table. Everything went according to plan on Day 5 too: the field played down to the final table as scheduled. This time around, meeting the schedule wasn’t easy: Day 5 was the longest one of the event thus far.
The short stacks were under quite a bit of pressure when the action kicked off. The first to be bounced was Danny Chevalier, the shortest stack in the room. He got his last few chips into the middle on an A,10, only to be called by Daniel Shiff with pocket Ks. Instead of an A to save Chevalier, the board brought another K to draw first blood.
Alex Venovski was the next one to hit the rail. He was followed by David Peters. After the field whittled down to 21, things froze up a bit eliminations-wise. Corey Burbick’s elimination restarted the trickle. The end of his tournament life was decided by a coin-flip: his pocket 7s fell to an opponent’s A,Q.
After a few more eliminations, Ruben Visser clinched the chip lead for a little while. Jaka had just dropped a rather large pot to an opponent when his A,K fell to pocket rockets, but he was about to start a rally. He saw off Sam Greenwood in 15th and suddenly he was back in contention. Anthony Gregg caught a good pot too, and he too vaulted towards the top of the chip counts.
Lee Goldman was the official final table bubble boy. He busted out in 9th place after he shoved all-in with pocket Ks and got called by John Dibella with pocket 9s. Although he had the goods, Goldman was struck down by the 9h on the river, which gave his opponent a set.
