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PokerStars Caribbean Adventure – Day 6 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2010-01-14 06:48
After 7 days of red hot poker action and 32 blind levels, the Caribbean Poker adventure has finally come to an end. The chips, which had originally been spread among 1,529 participants, were shoved to a fro, played with and juggled an endless number of times before they all came to rest, stacked in front of the winner: Harrison Gimbel.
The final day of the
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure was nothing like the previous days. The 8 remaining players bellied up to a table on a special televised set. A large crowd of supporters were present too, many of them having come from afar. With $2.2 million on the line as the winner’s cut of the prize-pool, those who had set their expectations high regarding the battle were not disappointed.
It only took about 6 hands from the starting bell for the first fireworks to ignite. Harrison Gimbel and start of the day chip leader Ryan D’Angelo locked horns in a do or die battle over a 10 million chip pot.
The money went all-in before the flop as Gimbel tabled Ad, Kd against D’Angelo’s pocket Js. The board brought two Aces and a K to give Gimbel the boat and the pot which would prove essential in his victory run.
After such a dynamic opening, it only took a few more hands for the first casualty of the final table to hit the rail. Tom Koral became that casualty. He got into a three way preflop battle with Ty Reiman and Benjamin Zamani, holding pocket Qs. Zamani eventually got out of the way and when all the chips were shoved into the middle, Reiman tabled his pocket rockets.
Zachary Goldberg followed Koral to the rail in 7th place, eliminated by Aage Ravn. Ravn himself was bounced next in 6th.
5-handed action raged on for a while before a dramatic confrontation came about between Reiman and D’Angelo. D’Angelo’s pocket Js fell to Reiman’s A,K though and thus the former chip leader picked up $700,000 for his 5th place finish.
Zamani coin-flipped his way out of the
poker tournament next, followed by Barry Schulman in 3rd. Despite the fact that both these players were eliminated by Gimbel, the heads-up stage found him well behind Reiman stack-wise. He did catch up within a few hands though and eventually put Reiman away on a 10,10 vs 8,8 match-up.
