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Chris Oliver Leads PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event

Only 48 Players Remain Gunning For $2.3 Million First Place Prize

by Julio Rodriguez  |  Published: Jan 11, 2011  |  E-mail Author

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Chris Oliver

With the top prize of $2.3 million up for grabs, you’d expect a deliberate and cautious approach from the players still remaining in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event. Instead, day 3 produced some of the wildest action seen on the tournament circuit in recent memory.

A total of 173 players began the day, but just nine hours later, tournament officials were forced stop play due to the speed at which the field was busting. With only 48 remaining, it’s hard to believe that there is still four calendar days before a winner is crowned.

Leading the way heading into day 4 is Chris “Gettin Daize” Oliver, who was an absolute knockout machine during his time on the felt. The online pro used his aggression to put maximum pressure on his opponents and those who were brave enough to look him up found that he could come from behind as well. With 3,675,000, Oliver now has nearly four times the average.

Chris Moneymaker

Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker represented his site well and finished the day with 1,636,000, good enough for fifth place. Other notables include Mike Sowers (1,360,000), Eric Froehlich (1,187,000), Sam Stein (970,000), Eddy Sabat (918,000) and day 2 chip leader Adam Geyer (435,000).

Play will resume Wednesday at noon EST and continue until the final 24 remain. Check out the overnight chip counts below.

Rank Name Chip Count
1 Chris Oliver 3,675,000
2 Max Lehmanski 2,324,000
3 John Andress 1,985,000
4 Galen Hall 1,677,000
5 Chris Moneymaker 1,636,000
6 Philippe Plouffe 1,566,000
7 Matt Lichtie 1,463,000
8 Mike Sowers 1,360,000
9 Ilan Rouah 1,349,000
10 Dmitriy Stelmak 1,303,000
11 Ana Marquez 1,300,000
12 Grayson Ramage 1,290,000
13 Nicholas Kamen 1,258,000
14 Eric Beren 1,190,000
15 Eric Froehlich 1,187,000
16 Anton Ionel 1,157,000
17 Bolivar Palacios 1,023,000
18 Walid Bou-Habib 982,000
19 Toby Lewis 979,000
20 Sam Stein 970,000
21 Oleg Perepletchikov 956,000
22 James St. Hilaire 920,000
23 Edward Sabat 918,000
24 Joel Patchell 912,000
25 Martin Mathis 910,000
26 Alan Gould 802,000
27 Steven Curtin 783,000
28 Paulo Rink 775,000
29 Michael Pesek 759,000
30 Josh Bergman 743,000
31 Bryan Colin 738,000
32 Max Weinberg 724,000
33 Wesley Wiemes 689,000
34 Timothy Finne 671,000
35 Pablo Martin-Romo Ruiz 609,000
36 Calvin Anderson 526,000
37 Robert Cezarescu 524,000
38 Shayne Khanna 500,000
39 Aaron McCready 482,000
40 Sander Jansen 447,000
41 Peter Valente 439,000
42 Adam Geyer 435,000
43 William Givens 358,000
44 Erika Cerasti 338,000
45 Gregory Baksic 322,000
46 Marcio Barbieri 311,000
47 John Spadavecchia 302,000
48 Rafael Golka 297,000
 
 
Tags: Chris Oliver,   PokerStars Caribbean Adventure,   PCA Main Event,   Chris Moneymaker
 
 
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