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2010 PCA Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
2010 PCA Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Total Entries
1,529
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 1,529
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The list of notables who came out to play is a veritable who's-who of the poker world. Gavin Smith, Bill Edler, Huck Seed, Brock Parker, Erik Seidel, Jeff Madsen, Jonathan Little... the list goes on and on. The Team PokerStars Pros were well-represented as well with the likes of Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, Dennis Phillips, Barry Greenstein, Noah Boeken, Jason Mercier, and EPT found John Duthie were all among the sponsored Pros who chose the first flight as their opening day. Most of them were rewarded for that choice. Phillips, Negreanu, and Greenstein all had stellar days to finish up with several times their starting chip stacks.
The top of the leaderboard was a cluster of uncertainty for the first six levels, but one man would break out from the field as the day wound down. Dragging monster pot after monster pot, Wayne Bentley surged past the field in the late stages to stuff his chip bag with 329,500 technicolor checks. That puts him miles out in front of his nearest chaser, but the tournament will not be won on the first day.
Those who survived will take the day off tomorrow as we welcome a new set of faces to the Imperial Ballroom. They'll be back at noon on Thursday for the combined Day 2.
So that's it for this opening day. We, unfortunately, don't get a day off like these slackers. We'll be back tomorrow at noon to pick up the action with Day 1b. All expectations are for a packed house tomorrow as we try to cram over 1,400 players into this event. Until then, goodnight from paradise. Paradise Island, that is.
. His opponent turned up pocket jacks, and they would hold on a board running 
.That dropped Mercier down into the danger zone with just a few thousand chips, and he would move them all in a few hands later with
. He was looked up by an opponent with pocket kings, and, unable to improve, Mercier made his way slowly toward the exit.
, one player checked to Amit Makhija. He fired 5,000 before Bill Edler raised to 12,000. Wayne Bentley snap-called the 12,000 and the first player along with Makhija folded.The turn brought the
and Edler checked. Bentley fired 15,000 and then Edler put in a raise to what looked like 55,000. Bentley moved all in and Edler made the call.Edler began the hand with over 100,000 chips and tabled
. Bentley held a flopped set of eights -- 
.The river was the
and couldn't produce a miracle for Edler. He was sent packing. Bentleyaccelerated himself up to 335,000 chips and is the clear leader heading into the final minutes of play for Day 1a.
Makhija held
against Bentley's .The flop came down
, pairing Makhija and taking away a few outs from Bentley with his added flush draw.The turn was the
and then the river completed the board with the 
. Makhija doubled up to over 20,000."That's the first ace I've seen in forever," said Makhija.
, Vivek Rajkumar was faced up against one other player. Rajkumar held position on the hand and called a bet of 9,800 on the turn.After the river fell the
, the first player checked. Rajkumar fired 22,000 and his opponent called within a few seconds. Rajkumar then tabled and his opponent mucked.With that pot, Rajkumar is up to 112,000 chips.
, Tiffany Michelle got the remaining ~11,000 of her chips into the pot, and Team PokerStars Pro Angel Guillen was right there to look her up, though he didn't seem to confident as he shook his head and opened up his cards: . "Oh jeez," said Michelle, turning up her coolered .The turn brought a useless
, and the 
that filled out the board will be the last card of Tiffany Michelle's day; she's been eliminated.
