Main Event
Day 5 Started
2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Main Event
Day: 5
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 5 Draw
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| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | David Peters | 424,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Alex Venovski | 592,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Ruben Visser | 461,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Charles Furey | 379,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Maksim Semisoshenko | 1,446,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Kyle Julius | 1,818,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Alex Fitzgerald | 2,709,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Daniel Schmieding | 1,309,000 |
| 2 | 1 | David Granados | 980,000 |
| 2 | 2 | John Dibella | 1,406,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Corey Burbick | 551,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Sam Greenwood | 2,109,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Lee Goldman | 1,760,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Faraz Jaka | 4,114,000 |
| 2 | 7 | David Bernstein | 1,160,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Phil D'Auteuil | 2,280,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Nikolaos Alafogiannis | 221,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Daniel Shiff | 834,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Anthony Gregg | 2,142,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Xuan Liu | 1,082,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Mark Drover | 1,383,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Byron Kaverman | 2,136,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Danny Chevalier | 302,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Martin Jacobson | 1,627,000 |
Day 4 Arrives With Jaka, Fitzgerald in Front
Good morning once again, and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The $25,000 High Roller event begins today, but that's a story for another page. We've still got two days of Main Event action left, and today will be the playdown day from 24 players to the final table. Sometime tomorrow night or early Saturday morning, one of them will hoisting a big silver trophy and trying to figure out what to do with $2 million in cash.
Leading the way into this penultimate day is Faraz Jaka, who hasn't won much of anything. We're kidding, of course, but a quick look at his stat sheet confirms that his lone tournament victory came in a $1,000 side event at the L.A. Poker Classic in 2008. The second- and third-place finishes abound, though, and Jaka is approaching $2.5 million in career earnings despite only having one poker trophy on his mantle. He's very much the favorite to score his first major win here this week, and the 4.114 million chips he's accumulated so far would be an above-average stack at the final table. In short, he's crushing.
The road forward will likely not be as easy for Jaka as it has been to this point, though. Alex Fitzgerald is another talented American looking for his first major "bink", and his 2.709 million chips put him in second place to begin the day. He's still a long way back from Jaka but still within striking distance as neither of the two seem afraid to play the odd monster pot when the need arises.
Many of the guys we have left are just as well known by their online handles than their real-life names and faces. Some of those still in the hunt include Phil "takechip" D'Auteuil, Anthony "wwwBTHEREcom" Gregg, Kyle "KJulius10" Julius, Ruben "rubenrtv" Visser, David "dpeters18" Peters, and Corey "comandr_cool" Burbick.
It's not all "guys", though. Xuan Liu has been steadily matriculating her way through the field all week long, and she's been the last woman standing for a couple days now. Still relatively young in her career as a poker pro, Liu already has some experience at an EPT final table. Back in April of last year, she finished third in San Remo for more than a half-million dollars, and we wouldn't bet against her making a second EPT final table by the time it's all said and done today.
Everyone's chasing "The-Toilet 0" and "Assassinato", though, and Jaka and Fitzgerald are the two to beat for now. The players are taking their seats and unbagging as we speak, and the starting gun is just a few minutes away.
Just a Few More Minutes
The players appear to be here — all of them — and the staff is making final preparations for the day. Photos are being taken, chips stacked, interviews given.
Cards will be in the air in just a couple short minutes.
Level: 23
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
Every Day I'm Shufflin'
Level 23
: 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
The small blind is 10,000, the large blind is 20,000. Antes? 3,000. Robbie Thompson has just called the dealers into action, and Day 5 is off and running.
PokerNews Podcast
Level 23
: 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
The crew grabbed Faraz Jaka for an interview after play yesterday. He talks about his day, his spending habits, and his very colorful shirt.
The First Flop
Level 23
: 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
It took about ten minutes of action to see a flop at any of the tables. Over on the feature, Faraz Jaka opened with a middle-position raise, and Phil D'Auteuil three-bet him a couple seats over. Jaka called, and off they went.
The dealer spread out 
, and Jaka check-called another 103,000 from D'Auteuil to arrive at the 
turn. D'Auteuil fired 245,000 now, and Jaka took a look and folded.
Drover Undeterred
First in from middle position, Anthony Gregg opened to 44,000, and Mark Drover three-bet to 106,000 in the cutoff. Next door, Byron Kaverman came in from the cold with another raise to 235,000 total, and that folded Gregg without incident. Not Drover, though. He popped it right back up to 505,000, and Kaverman surrendered his cards back to the dealer.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,080,000 | -62,000 |
|
1,900,000 | -236,000 |
|
1,620,000 | 237,000 |
Level: 24
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 3,000