Main Event
Day 4 Started
2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$10,398,400
Entries
1,072
Level
36
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
50,000
Day 4 Seat Draw
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| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Casey Kastle | 453000 |
| 1 | 2 | Faraz Jaka | 1220000 |
| 1 | 3 | Sam Chartier | 260000 |
| 1 | 4 | Danny Chevalier | 275000 |
| 1 | 5 | Luca Pagano | 863000 |
| 1 | 6 | James Seletzky | 201000 |
| 1 | 7 | Eddy Sabat | 594000 |
| 1 | 8 | Alexander Venovski | 351000 |
| 2 | 1 | [Removed:273] | 100000 |
| 2 | 2 | Robin Lindqvist | 155000 |
| 2 | 3 | John Dibella | 719000 |
| 2 | 4 | Roberto Rivera | 231000 |
| 2 | 5 | Luis Jaikel | 372000 |
| 2 | 6 | Will Reynolds | 269000 |
| 2 | 7 | Warren Strong | 725000 |
| 2 | 8 | Daniel Schmieding | 365000 |
| 3 | 1 | Peter Dräxl | 951000 |
| 3 | 2 | Thomas Gabriel | 385000 |
| 3 | 3 | Phil D'Auteuil | 1472000 |
| 3 | 4 | Nicholas Grippo | 265000 |
| 3 | 5 | Maksim Semisoshenko | 113000 |
| 3 | 6 | David Bernstein | 876000 |
| 3 | 7 | Richard Washinksky | 429000 |
| 3 | 8 | Daniel Shiff | 344000 |
| 4 | 1 | Spencer Hudson | 287000 |
| 4 | 2 | Sam Greenwood | 1401000 |
| 4 | 3 | Anthony Gregg | 1129000 |
| 4 | 4 | Ami Alibay | 165000 |
| 4 | 5 | Chris Klodnicki | 157000 |
| 4 | 6 | Ruben Visser | 666000 |
| 4 | 7 | Andrew Badecker | 406000 |
| 4 | 8 | Corey Burbick | 278000 |
| 5 | 1 | Mark Drover | 392000 |
| 5 | 2 | Alexandr Kuzmin | 741000 |
| 5 | 3 | William Luciano | 447000 |
| 5 | 4 | Bill Chen | 668000 |
| 5 | 5 | Byron Kaverman | 536000 |
| 5 | 6 | Rudy Blondeau | 311000 |
| 5 | 7 | Sergio Garcia | 235000 |
| 5 | 8 | Jan Heitmann | 395000 |
| 6 | 1 | David Peters | 857000 |
| 6 | 2 | Lee Goldman | 703000 |
| 6 | 3 | Charles Furey | 574000 |
| 6 | 4 | Viacheslav Igin | 244000 |
| 6 | 5 | Marc Tschirch | 540000 |
| 6 | 6 | Yevgeniy Timoshenko | 122000 |
| 6 | 7 | Cristian Folescu | 510000 |
| 6 | 8 | David Granados | 443000 |
| 7 | 1 | Artem Kachnyy | 589000 |
| 7 | 2 | Lawrence Greenberg | 764000 |
| 7 | 3 | Barry Greenstein | 379000 |
| 7 | 4 | Arnaud Mattern | 155000 |
| 7 | 5 | Alex Fitzgerald | 1154000 |
| 7 | 6 | Kyle Julius | 1019000 |
| 7 | 7 | Rodrigo Abellán Vivancos | 110000 |
| 7 | 8 | Jesus Sanchez | 217000 |
| 8 | 1 | Yuliyan Nikolaev Kolev | 292000 |
| 8 | 2 | Galen Hall | 168000 |
| 8 | 3 | Nikolaos Alafogiannis | 611000 |
| 8 | 4 | Xuan Liu | 680000 |
| 8 | 5 | Max Leonhard | 536000 |
| 8 | 6 | Martin Jacobson | 322000 |
| 8 | 7 | Erik Cajelais | 333000 |
| 8 | 8 | Jannick Wrang | 123000 |
A Pair of Canadians Lead For Day 4
Good morning, and welcome back for Day 4 of the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure. Over the weekend, 1,072 players turned up with $10,000 and a dream. More than a thousand of them have been sent off dissatisfied since then, and just 64 will return today with chips to unbag.
Atop the heap with his 1.472 million chips is Phil D'Auteuil, the young French-Canadian pro who you may remember from the EPT5 London final table. Right behind him is another Canadian, Sam Greenwood, who is, at least for now, the lesser known of the three Greenwood brothers. Four more players have joined the Canadians in the million-chip club, including Day 3's chip leader Faraz Jaka, Alex Fitzgerald, Anthony Gregg, and Kyle Julius.
The PokerStars family still has four players battling under their banner, and Luca Pagano is doing the best of the bunch. After a very active day at a tough table, Pagano managed to bag up 863,000 chips to put his name in the top ten. Germany's Jan Heitmann and America's Barry Greenstein are both hovering a bit below the chip average, and Arnaud Mattern has some work cut out for him. The Frenchman had his upward momentum dashed a few times over the course of Day 4, and he has a bottom-dwelling stack of 155,000 with which to mount a comeback. We wouldn't put it past him, though. Mattern was playing some good poker to finish 2011, and it seems he's due to "bink" something in the near future.
Other notables who'll be in the hunt today include David Peters, Bill Chen, Chris Klodnicki, Ruben Visser, Eddy Sabat, Erik Cajelais, and William Reynolds. We've also got one lady left standing, the charmingly Canadian Xuan Liu, and many would say she's due for a major tournament win as well.
Oh yeah, and the defending champ. Galen Hall won $2.3 million in this building last year, and he's already added more than a half-million with his third-place finish in the $100,000 Super High Roller event over the weekend. He'll be short on chips to begin the day, but we'd be fools to count him out now.
One more notable. Sergio Garcia knows his way around a golf tournament, and the pro iron swinger is turning some heads this week on the felt, too. Garcia has been steadily increasing his stack all week long, and he's still in the hunt with 235,000 chips to start this Day 4.
We're about 20 minutes away from our scheduled starting time, so don't wander away on us! We'll play down to 24 players today, and the cards will be in the air shortly.
Level: 20
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Level 20
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
The cards are in the air for Day 4 of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
Revenge For Mattern
The last time we saw Arnaud Mattern running deep in a 10k was at the World Series of Poker Europe in Cannes last October. We'll confess now after the fact that we were rooting for Mattern in that event, but he ran aces into pocket tens with ten players left to exit in cruel, two-out fashion.
Mattern has just gotten his revenge.
In middle position, he looked down at 
and shoved his last 153,000 into the middle. Around in the big blind, Artem Kachnyy woke up with the 
and made the covering call with a chance at the knockout.
The 
flop was a miss for Mattern, but the 
turn was just about the best miss in the deck. It gave Mattern another eight outs to the straight, and he'd find one of those on the river. The 
dropped off to save his tournament life, and Mattern is suddenly back in the game with 435,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
435,000 | -154,000 |
|
319,000 | 164,000 |
ANZ Player of the Year Chevalier Running Deep at PCA
Level 20
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
There are 64 players remaining in the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, but only one is the reigning Australia New Zealand Player of the Year. That player is Danny Chevalier and he entered Day 4 with 275,000 in chips.
Over in his native region of the world, Chevalier cashed in five of nine qualifying events on the ANZPT circuit to earn his player-of-the-year victory. It wasn't easy, though, as Chevalier was neck and neck with Leo Boxell right up until the last event. In that last event — ANZPT Darwin — Chevalier overtook Boxell and went on to finish in eighth place.
The five results Chevalier recorded en route to winning are as follows:
- ANZPT Adelaide - 8th for A$14,060
- ANZPT Perth - 20th for A$5,050
- ANZPT Gold Coast - 18th for A$6,760
- ANZPT Melbourne - 3rd for A$55,180
- ANZPT Darwin - 8th for A$5,760
The prize he earned was a sponsorship into four APPT Season 6 events and his choice of either an Aussie Millions Main Event package or a PCA Main Event package. Chevalier chose the PCA Main Event and so far he's parlayed that decision into a minimum of $32,500, with the chance to win much, much more. The stack he entered the day with is just about half of the current average.
Chevalier has plenty experience running deep in tournaments and maneuvering his way to the final table as exhibited in his ANZPT results, so we know he's got the game to make a massive splash here in The Bahamas. We'll be keeping an eye on the reigning ANZ Player of the Year all day long and keep you informed as to how he's doing going forward.
"Nuts"
Marc Tschirch and Cristian Folescu were heads up with the board reading 
. Folescu checked, and Tschirch fired 45,000. Folescu tank-called.
The turn was the 
, and Folescu checked agin. Tschirch reached for a tower of blue T5,000 chips, added two more chips on top, and slid it forward. The bet was 110,000, and after tanking for quite some time, Folescu called.
The 
completed the board, and Folescu led for the first time, betting 85,000. Tschirch tanked for over five minutes before slamming his cards in the muck, and Folescu turned 
over saying, "Nuts."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
735,000 | 225,000 |
|
325,000 | -215,000 |
Hall Out First
Well, we've lost the defending champ.
In middle position, Martin Jacobson opened to 20,000, and Galen Hall peeked down at 
in the hole. He only had 177,000 chips left, and he went ahead and stuck them all in there. Jacobson spent some time thinking which had to ease Hall's mind a bit, but the call eventually came, and Jacobson was flipping for the knockout with 
.
And the knockout he would get. The board rolled out 
, and that's the end of the road for Galen Hall. He certainly knows his way around this building by now, but this time around, he'll have to settle for a consolation prize of $32,500.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
515,000 | 193,000 |
|
Busted |
Find Out More About the PCA
Level 20
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
For more information on the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, you can check out the PCA website.