This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Jan. 3 - Jan. 9

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Card Player Player of the Year Update

1: Hevad Khan — 960
2: Rick Fuller — 800
3: Lars Bonding — 640
4: Michael Benvenuti — 528
5: Mark Wilds — 480
5: Flavio Eduardo Imamara — 480
5: Daniel Clemente — 480
8: Ron Feske — 440
9: Eric Crain — 400
9: Steven Merrifield — 400
9: Justin Wilkerson — 400

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Card Player Live Coverage Event – European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

The European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event broke many records in the first week of 2009. It attracted a massive field of 1,347 players, making it the largest poker tournament ever hosted outside of the United States. The $3 million first-place prize will be the 10th largest of all time, and it will go to the champion tomorrow.

At press time the final table for the 2009 PCA was set. You can catch all of the action in live updates, chip counts, photos, and videos tomorrow. The entire final table will also be broadcast on the EPT Live video feed. Here is a look at the standings heading into tomorrow's 1 p.m. EST start time:

1: Team PokerStars Pro Alexandre Gomes - 8,080,000
2: Poorya Nazari -6,790,000
3: Benny Spindler - 3,352,000
4: Pieter Tielen - 2,310,000
5: Anthony Gregg - 2,245,000
6: Kevin Saul - 1,640,000
7: Dan Heimiller - 1,440,000
8: Dustin Dirksen - 765,000

PCA $25,000 High Roller Event

ElkY Wins in the Bahamas Again

Winning back-to-back championships in any sport, in any form of competition, is quite a feat, and in poker it is even harder to accomplish. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier won the European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in 2008, besting a field of 1,136 players to win $2 million. In 2009, he was unable to beat a field of 1,347 players to repeat as champion, but what he did this week at the Atlantis Resort solidified his greatness. One year after he won the main event at the PCA, he won the first-ever $25,000 high-roller event held at the PCA and $433,500 in prize money. He has reached a pinnacle of poker consistency in the process. Grospellier has now won $2,433,500 in prize money in the Bahamas in the last 365 days.

Final Results:

1: Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier - Team PokerStars Pro (France) -- $433,500
2: Will Molson (Canada) -- $228,000
3: Scott Seiver (USA) -- $137,000
4: Liya Gerasimova (Russia) -- $91,300
5: Humberto Brenes - Team PokerStars Pro (Costa Rica) -- $70,800
6: Eli Elezra (USA) - $68,500
7: Daniel Alaei (USA) -- $57,000
8: Nick Schulman (USA) -- $45,700

Full Final-Table Recap

Selected Tournament Results:

PCA Event No. 3 ($2,000 no-limit hold’em):

Buy-in: $2,000
Number of Entries: 439
Total Prize Pool: $787,750
First-Place Prize: $200,000
Places Paid: 20

Final-Table Results:

1: Hevad Khan -- $200,000
2: Rick Fuller -- $110,300
3: Lars Bonding -- $79,000
4: Flavio Eduardo Imamara -- $55,100
5: Steven Merrifield -- $42,650
6: Jason Deutsch -- $34,700
7: Ryan Mackinnon -- $26,800
8: Lawrence Greenberg -- $19,000
9: Alfredo Tager -- $15,000      

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