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2013 PCA High Roller – Final Table Reached
Posted by: Jo Martin - Tue, 2013-01-15 04:44
The second day of the
2013 PCA’s $25k High Roller was an extremely productive one: 79 players showed up at the tables in the beginning of the day and after a day’s worth of action, only 8 were left standing. The player who had the biggest stack going into the final stretch of the
poker tournament was poker pro Shaun Deeb. Deeb finished well ahead of start of the day chip leader Vladimir Troyanovsky, who finished with 1.62 million chips. Deeb himself had 2.53 million chips bagged at the end of the day.
Due to the pro-heavy nature of the field, the final table turned out to be extremely pro-heavy as well. Besides Deeb, Vanessa Selbst, Ole Schemion, Mike Watson and Brynn Kenney made the cut too. Tobias Reinkemeier and Micah Rashkin rounded out the top 8.
Day 2 saw several players who had bitten the dust on day 1 re-buy. Everything accounted for, the total number of entries hit the 204 mark. The eventual prize-pool fell just short of the $5 million mark.
With the money bubble set for 24th place, the early day 2 action was rather fierce as no one wanted to go home empty-handed after having coughed up $25k for the right to play. Still, the majority of the participants had to go with nothing to show but the wooden spoon. Phil Hellmuth was among those eliminated before the bubble, together with scores of other pros like Marvin Rettenmaier, Michael Mizrachi, Erik Seidel, Ben Lamb and
PokerStars’ own Daniel Negreanu.
The official bubble-boy of the event was Nichola Petrangelo, who got his last chips into the middle on a pair of 9s he’d picked up. Shawn Buchanan made the call with pocket Js. The board gave Buchanan yet another J to make things crystal-clear.
