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The final table was as stacked as the rest of field, with Team PokerStars Pro and 2008 WSOP bracelet winner Alexandre Gomes coming into the day the dominant chip leader. He vaulted to the top of the leader board in a huge hand with Kevin "BeL0WaB0Ve" Saul just before the final table, but busted in fourth place here when his full house was not enough against Benny Spindler's quads. Gomes' elimination put the brakes on what had to that point been an amazingly quick final table. It took just three hours to bust the first four players from the final table, but it took four and a half hours from the time that Gomes headed to the rail in fourth place to bust Benny Spindler in third place ($1,100,000).
From there it only took four hands for Nazari to finish off Tony Gregg as the runner-up. The two newly-minted millionaires got it all in preflop with Nazari holding
to Gregg's 
. The board ran out 
, and Nazari became 2009's early-year tournament money leader. The results from the final table of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event:
1. Poorya Nazari - $3,000,000
2. Tony Gregg - $1,700,000
3. Benny Spindler - $1,100,000
4. Alexandre Gomes - $750,000
5. Pieter Tielen -$550,000
6. Dustin Dirksen - $400,000
7. Daniel Heimiller - $300,000
8. Kevin Saul - $234,000
Photo courtesy PokerStars
Poorya Nazari Wins the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
January 11 2009, John Hartness
The final table was as stacked as the rest of field, with Team PokerStars Pro and 2008 WSOP bracelet winner Alexandre Gomes coming into the day the dominant chip leader. He vaulted to the top of the leader board in a huge hand with Kevin "BeL0WaB0Ve" Saul just before the final table, but busted in fourth place here when his full house was not enough against Benny Spindler's quads. Gomes' elimination put the brakes on what had to that point been an amazingly quick final table. It took just three hours to bust the first four players from the final table, but it took four and a half hours from the time that Gomes headed to the rail in fourth place to bust Benny Spindler in third place ($1,100,000).
From there it only took four hands for Nazari to finish off Tony Gregg as the runner-up. The two newly-minted millionaires got it all in preflop with Nazari holding
to Gregg's . The board ran out , and Nazari became 2009's early-year tournament money leader. The results from the final table of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event:
1. Poorya Nazari - $3,000,000
2. Tony Gregg - $1,700,000
3. Benny Spindler - $1,100,000
4. Alexandre Gomes - $750,000
5. Pieter Tielen -$550,000
6. Dustin Dirksen - $400,000
7. Daniel Heimiller - $300,000
8. Kevin Saul - $234,000
Photo courtesy PokerStars
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