EPT -- PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Day 1BFirst-Place Prize of $3 Million Announced |
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Very few poker tournaments pay out a first-place prize of $3 million. The World Series of Poker main event has accomplished this impressive feat every year since Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker won $2.5 million in 2003 and changed the course of tournament poker history forever. The World Poker Tour World Championship has accomplished this feat three times, and the PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final awarded its first ever, first-place prize worth more than $3 million in 2008. The EPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will become the 10th tournament in poker history to award a $3 million first-place prize when it crowns a champion on Saturday, Jan. 10.
The 2009 PCA has attracted a field of 1,347 players. Over half the field qualified online at PokerStars.com, 735 players qualified at the world’s largest poker site. The field also represents an increase of 211 players over the 2008 PCA field that attracted 1,136 players, and awarded a first-place prize of $2 million to the winner, Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier. The major factor that caused the first-place prize to jump a full million was the decision to raise the buy-in from $8,000 in 2008 to $10,000 in 2009. That didn’t stop players from arriving in the Bahamas in droves over the past two days, and making history in the process. The top 199 players will get paid in the tournament and the total prize pool is worth $12,674,000.
Day 1B of the 2009 PCA began at noon EST today, and the Imperial Ballroom at the Atlantis Resort was packed full of poker players once again (676 players to be exact). They began with 20,000 in chips, but they played fast as the field shrunk by leaps and bounds during eight, 75-minute levels of poker. The level after the dinner break was especially devastating, as more than 100 players met their doom during just 75 minutes of play. At the end of the night only 205 remained. These players will join the 182 players that survived day 1A tomorrow for day 2, which also begins at noon. CardPlayer.com will be there to bring you all of the action in live updates, chip counts, photos, and videos from CardPlayer TV. The money bubble will surely burst tomorrow, and this aggressive field shows no signs of slowing down when the honor of bubble boy goes out to the player that finishes in 200th place.
Here is a look at all of the need-to-know information concerning day 1B at the 2009 PCA:
Notable Eliminations: Defending champion Bertrand “ElkY’ Grospellier, Phil Ivey, Chris Moneymaker, Boris Becker, Jeff Shulman, Ivan Demidov, Nick Schulman, Dario Minieri, Glen Chorny, Steve Sung, Adam Levy, Gus Hansen, Katja Thater, Freddy Deeb, Bernard Lee, Layne Flack, Johnny Lodden, Greg Mueller, Allen Kessler, Noah Boeken, Hevad Khan, Orel Hershiser, Daniel Alaei, Isabelle Mercier, Danny Wong, Joe Sebok, Eugene Katchalov, and Robert Mizrachi.
Top 10 Chip Counts:
Chris Fernandez -- 210,700
Benny Chen -- 195,600
Daniel Heimiller -- 178,300
Scott Bateson -- 177,600
Foued Atigui -- 169,700
Eric Liu -- 168,500
Brian England -- 168,300
Anatoly Gurtovoy -- 163,200
Alex Longobardi -- 156,500
Christopher Underwood -- 155,400
Full Chip Count List
Full Payout Structure:
1. $3,000,000
2. $1,700,000
3. $1,100,000
4. $750,000
5. $550,000
6. $400,000
7. $300,000
8. $214,000
9. $175,000
10. $150,000
11. $135,000
12. $120,000
13. $105,000
14. $95,000
15. $85,000
16. $75,000
17-18. $65,000
19-20. $60,000
21-22. $55,000
23-24. $50,000
25-32. $40,000
33-40. $35,000
41-48. $30,000
49-56. $27,500
57-64 $25,000
65-72. $22,500
73-80. $20,000
81-99. $17,500
100-130. $15,000
131-199. $12,500
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