At the biggest PCA event ever, competition has been incredibly tough and many poker pros have ran into PokerStars qualifiers that have shown very sharp skills, despite the fact that many PokerStars pros made deep runs, only one of them remains in the tournament: John Duthie, who is the founder of the European Poker Tour and also invented the PCA event, has always been on the executive side of the tournaments, but this time around he could be receiving the trophy and not awarding it. There’s a group of players that will stand in his way and outplaying them won’t be an easy task.
The money bubble was burst on day three and it was the PokerStars qualifier John Leathart who had the unfortunate luck of taking such position. He won his ticket to the PCA in a $33 satellite and fell just one position short of taking at least $15K home with him.
Some of the early chip leaders like Wayne Bentley and Praz Bansi had outstanding performances. While unfortunately their tournament life is over, at least they are not going home empty handed.
Day four brought some surprises but Ryan D’Angelo sure was no surprise – he has run over his opponents and will be starting day five with the largest chip stack. His opponents at the table are Tyler Reiman, Barry Shulman, Harrison Gimbel, Thomas Koral, Benjamin Zamani, Zachary Goldberg and Aage Ravn.
PokerStars scheduled the amFAR charity event for this passed weekend during the PCA festivities at the Bahamas. Many celebrities participated in the event and there was a good number of poker pros as well. Some of the people that contributed to the noble cause were Jaydee Nicole, Kelly Rowland, Montel Williams, Kenneth Cole, Carlos Bernard, Boris Becker, Fatima de Melo, Mats Sundin and Jerome Le Banner among many others. The top prize was won by the PokerStars qualifier Spencer Benjafield and $97K from the total amount raised went directly into the charity.
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