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PokerStars Caribbean Adventure – Day 5 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2010-01-14 03:57
Day 5 of the
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure saw the remaining 24 players belly up to the tables at the Imperial Ballroom of the Atlantis Resort, to play down to the final 8. Sure enough, in about 6 hours’ time, the field had whittled down to the final table, with start of the day chip leader Ryan D’Angelo still in possession of the largest stack. D’Angelo’s Day 5 run didn’t go unchallenged through. Ty Reiman took the chip lead at one point in the poker tournament, thanks to a massive pot he took down about halfway through the day.
As soon as the action kicked off, short stacks began to take coin-flips for their
poker tournament lives. Robert Mizrachi was one of these short-stacks and even though he was not the first to go on Day 5, his 22nd place exit was probably less than satisfactory for him. Hew ran a couple of overcards into Ty Reiman’s pocket Js for the bust. He did take down a $75,000 prize through.
Jeff Madsen followed him to the rail in 19th place, though the difference in prize-size between the two of them was rather significant: Madsen took home $87,500.
Praz Bansi, one of the earlier chip leaders of the poker tournament, started Day 5 on a positive note. He doubled up initially, but then he got hit bad by Reiman, whose pocket rockets blew Bansi’s A,9o away to send him to the rail in 18th place.
Reiman was obviously on a roll at that stage and he wouldn’t stop there. Only a few hands later, he locked horns with John Duthie, in a pot which would turn out to be the largest one of the day. The two players shoved all-in before the flop, after which Duthie turned over a pair of rockets against Reiman’s pocket Qs. Despite being dominated this way, Reiman proved unstoppable. The flop landed another Q for him and the rest of the board didn’t help Duthie out. He was left crippled after this encounter and he was eliminated in 12th place 2 hands later.
9 handed play continued on for a while. It took the remaining field almost an hour to eject Mathew Haugen and thus to set the final table of the
2010 PCA. Haugen’s A,6o succumbed to Barry Schulman’s pocket Ks in the decisive hand.
