$100,000 Super High Roller
Day 3 Started
2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
$100,000 Super High Roller
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Buy-in
$98,000
Prize Pool
$5,724,180
Entries
59
Level
24
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
The Final Table Cometh
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The third and final day of the tenth anniversary PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller is set to begin at 1 p.m. EST today. Your overwhelming chip leader is David "Doc" Sands, who bagged a total of 6.68 million chips after Day 2 (45 percent of the chips in play).
Joining Sands at the final table are fellow professionals Nick Schulman, Philipp Gruissem, and Scott Seiver, amateurs Greg Jensen, Cary Katz, and Vladimir Troyanovsky, and Super High Roller beast Dan Shak. Shak finished runner-up in this event last year, earning $846,700, and won the 2010 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge, pocketing $1,107,553.
Sands' largest cash to date is for $806,370 at the 2012 L.A. Poker Classic Main Event. He can best that today with a second-place finish or better, and if he wins, then his lifetime live tournament earnings will exceed five million dollars.
The cards will be in the air in the next 45 minutes or so, but we will be reporting off of the live stream. That means our updates will be delayed by 60 minutes. We hope that you stay tuned for the coverage of this final and every major final table at the 2013 PCA!
A Look At The 2013 PCA $100K Final Table
Here’s how the official final table looks:
| Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nick Schulman | 2,295,000 |
| 2 | Dan Shak | 870,000 |
| 3 | Greg Jensen | 1,500,000 |
| 4 | Scott Seiver | 755,000 |
| 5 | Vladimir Troyanovsky | 505,000 |
| 6 | Philipp Gruissem | 1,610,000 |
| 7 | Cary Katz | 540,000 |
| 8 | David Sands | 6,680,000 |
Seat 1: Nick Schulman (2,295,000)
Nick Schulman is no stranger to the PCA's $100K. Back in 2011, when the Super High Roller premiered, Schulman was one of the 38 entries. Not only that, he made the final table where he ultimately finished in fourth place for $400,000. Moreover, Schulman also has an eighth-place finish on his PCA résumé in the 2009 $25,000 High Roller Event, for which he earned $45,700.
Schulman began playing poker in his teens and soon made his way to the virtual felt online. Because he couldn’t play in brick and mortar card rooms until he was 21, Schulman spent his days grinding it out online. He studied the game and improved over the years as he climbed the limits. When he eventually turned of legal age, Nick took to live games and played in underground clubs in New York City.
His time in those clubs didn’t last long as the common raids pushed him to legal venues up and down the East Coast. In 2005, the youngster entered the Foxwoods World Poker Finals and came out on top, earning the $2.1 million plus for first place. An unbelievable start that put Schulman on the map as the youngest winner of a World Poker Tour event.
In 2009, Schulman captured his first World Series of Poker bracelet by winning the $10,000 World Championship No-Limit 2-7 Draw event for $279,751. Amazingly, Schulman won that very event for a second time in 2012 for his second gold bracelet and a $294,321 payday.
All told, Schulman has 5,389,881 in tournaments earnings, which he'll add to here today. Known as “TheTakeover” online, Schulman has been known to do just that in live tournaments... though he'll have his work cut out as he trails the chip leader by nearly a 3-1 margin.
Seat 2: Dan Shak (870,000)
Dan Shak is not an amateur, nor is he a professional poker player - he's a tweener who's had tremendous success in Super High Rollers.
In 2010, at the Aussie Millions, Shak defeated Phil Ivey heads up to win the $100,000 Challenge, earning $1,107,553. He also finished runner-up in this event last year, taking home $846,700, and he finished fourth in the 2009 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge, pocketing $142,074.
Shak can best is largest score to date with either a second or first-place finish, and even with an eight-place finish today, he's already crossed four million dollars in earnings in his career.
Seat 3: Greg Jensen (1,500,000)
Prior to the start of the $100,000 Super High Roller, the registration list was a laundry list of well-known professionals sprinkled with a few experienced amateurs — with the exception of Greg Jensen. Here was a man that no one in the poker community had heard of. After a little digging, it was revealed that Jensen was a hedge fund manager and the co-CEO and co-CIO for Bridgewater Associates, a firm based in Westport, Connecticut with assets totaling $122 billion.
What's more, Jensen entered the tournament on whim after a colleague of his had gifted him a seat into the $10,000 PCA Main Event. Jensen decided to take a shot in the Super High Roller, and incredibly, he has made it all the way to the final table.
Seat 4: Scott Seiver (755,000)
Scott Seiver enters the final table sixth in chips, but is one of the most successful players at the table. Seiver boasts over $4.9 million in career live tournament earnings, with his biggest score coming in May of 2011 when he took down the $25,000 WPT Championship Event at the Bellagio, earning over $1.6 million.
Seiver won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2008, besting David Seidman heads up in a $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. Seiver earned $755,891 to go along with the hardware - it is his second-largest live cash to date.
The 2012 PCA was a successful trip for Seiver, who won the $5,000 heads up event ($78,210) and finished fifth in the $5,000 8-Game event ($13,810). Seiver has already earned a profit for his efforts in this Super High Roller, but is gunning for the two million dollar payday and the trophy.
Seat 5: Vladimir Troyanovsky (505,000)
Russia's Vladimir Troyanovsky is a veteran of high roller events, and though you might not guess it, he's a hardcore player of World of Warcraft. Needless to say, he's quite the gamer.
Troyanovsky travels the world playing in tournaments of all sizes, and he recently took one down. It happened back in April at the European Poker Tour Berlin €3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Heads-Up event when he defeated WCOOP runner-up Vojtech Ruzicka in the final round to win €21,600. A total of 16 players competed in that event and created a prize pool of €48,000. Israeli Saar Wilf and German Nima Ahrary came joint third for €6,000; Ruzicka for €14,400 for second.
While Troyanovsky has an EPT win on his résumé, some would say he's overdue for some high roller success. He just might find it today, but he'll have to overcome the short stack to do it.
Seat 6: Philipp Gruissem (1,610,000)
German Philipp Gruissem, who ranks 14th in the Global Poker Index, enters the final table third in chips, but perhaps first in high roller résumé. In 2011, Gruissem won two high rollers on the European Poker Tour (EPT Barcelona and EPT London), earning a combined $1,041,495. He also finished 28th in the Main Event that year, earning $242,636.
Gruissem continued to crush in 2012, final tabling the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, the WSOPE €50,000 Majestic High Roller, and finishing tenth in the Macau High Stakes Challenge Super High Roller.
Over the past two years, Gruissem has earned over $3.3 million. He has an opportunity to add $2 million more to that total today.
Seat 7: Cary Katz (540,000)
While technically an amateur, Cary Katz, who is in his early 40s and resides in Las Vegas, is no stranger to poker. He's regularly played in the world's highest buy-in events, including this summer's $1 million buy-in Big One For One Drop at the World Series of Poker.
Katz, who is married with six children, is the Chief Executive Officer of the seventh- largest student loan company in the United States, the College Loan Corporation (CLC), which has helped more than 800,000 students by providing them with over $19 billion in college loans since it was founded in 1999. He is also the acting chairman of a Stop Child Predators, nonprofit organization founded to help protect children and hold their victimizers accountable.
Katz, who has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Georgia, has $831,047 in career earnings, though his biggest score was just $51,713 for a 12th-place finish in a 2011 WSOP $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Event.