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2014 PCA Main Event – Day 2 Report
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Fri, 2014-01-10 05:53
The second day of the 2014 PCA’s Main Event finally saw the numbers settled for good. The official starting field was 1,031-player strong, which meant that the prize-pool was set to $10,070,000. A total of 151 players will be paid, and the winner will walk away with more than $1.8 million on top of the title of course. Min cash has been set to $17,600, and everyone who makes the final table is guaranteed at least $173.2k.
The player who finished the second day of the
poker tournament with the largest stack was Pascal Lefrancois, who had 412k chips bagged. Sam Greenwood did well too: he finished with 402.5k chips to his name. Other top-finishers were Matt Berkey (who had 402.5k chips bagged too), Roger Teska and Brian Altman.
The 2013 Champion of the same event, John Dibella finished among the large-stacks too. He had 293.6k chips bagged after a pretty lucky run, which saw him make trip queens in one hand, followed by a diamond flush in the next one. He took down big pots with both those hands.
Lilly Kiletto’s Day 2 ride was one for people with strong stomachs only. She kicked it off by taking down a huge, 200k chip pot early on, but she then had to deal with some adversity, and found herself with only about 60k chips, before Roger Teska moved in and finished her off for good.
PokerStars’ Marc-Andre Ladouceur finished the day as the highest-ranking PokerStars pro. Others who made the cut were Humberto Brenes, Dario Minieri, Vanessa Selbst, Marcel Luske, Liv Boeree, Alex Kravchenko and Angel Guillen.
Daniel Negreanu and John Juanda were among the victims of Day 2, together with Ryan Riess, Philipp Gruissem and Robert Mizrachi. Eugen Katchalov was the one responsible for Dominik Nitsche and Philipp Gruissem’s eliminations in the same hand.
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