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January 12, 2010. Harrison Gimble wins Pokerstars Caribbean Main
Event and takes home $2.2 Million
The seventh PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, the richest
poker tournament ever held outside of Las Vegas, has ended with
a 19-year-old poker pro from Jupiter, Florida scooping the $2.2
million first prize to become the youngest ever PCA champion.
Harrison “gibler321” Gimbel bested a 1,529-strong field
from 57 countries after winning his seat into the $10,000 no limit
hold’em tournament in a $1,000 satellite held the night before
the event started.
Gimbel – who started college in September but gave it up
three weeks later – beat PokerStars player Tyler Reiman after
a heads-up battle lasting less than an hour. Prior to this year’s
PCA, his best live result was winning the 2009 Florida State Poker
Championships for $67,860. He has numerous big cashes in online
tournaments including a $47,000 prize for finishing sixth in the
PokerStars Sunday Million online tournament in November.
“I’m so excited,” he said. “It’s
been a really good day. It feels amazing. I’ve always wanted
to win a major tournament and luckily I have accomplished it on
one of my very first ones. A lot of these players were very good
but I had a lot of confidence in myself coming into today and it
really showed. I’m now going car shopping!”
Runner-up Tyler Reiman, who was chip leader for much of the final
day, takes $1.75 million back home to Morton, Illinois. Third place
– and $1.35 million - went to Barry Shulman, the 63-year-old
owner of Card Player magazine, who won the World Series of Poker
Europe event in London in October for £801,601.
Some of the best players in the world competed in this year’s
event as well as dozens of stars from the world of sport and entertainment,
generating a total prize pool of $14,831,300. More than 750 players
won their seats – and trip to Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas
– online with PokerStars. Darren Keyes qualified for 75 Frequent
Player Points and left the Bahamas $150,000 richer after cashing
in 10th place.
Mike Ward, Tournament Director, said: “With more than 50
events on the schedule, we expected a lot from this year’s
PCA and it certainly hasn’t disappointed. The main event has
generated the biggest prize pool and the biggest field we have ever
had and the buzz in the Atlantis Imperial Ballroom has been astonishing.
Congratulations to our winner Harrison Gimbel, as well as all 224
players who cashed and the 756 players who won seats to the event
on PokerStars. “
EPT founder John Duthie survived the longest out of the 55 members
of Team PokerStars Pro who competed. He bust in 12th place, winning
$130,000. The other Team Pros to cash were Vicky Coren, Ivan Demidov,
Dario Minieri, Victor Ramdin, Johnny Lodden, Florian Langmann, Matthias
De Meulder, Luis Medina and former PCA champion Steve Paul-Ambrose.
Other Main Event entrants included world champion Joe Cada and poker
legend Daniel Negreanu.
Other stars who competed included American rapper Nelly, Playboy
Playmate Jayde Nicole, Team PokerStars SportStars: Tennis legend
Boris Becker, NHL star Mats Sundin and Dutch hockey pro Fatima Moreira
de Melo. Friends of PokerStars Baseball legend Orel Hershiser, UK
football star Teddy Sheringham and US talk show host Montel Williams.
Since it started in 2004, more than $53 million has been won at
the PCA, with more than 6,000 players taking part - including thousands
of PokerStars qualifiers. Previous winners include Team PokerStars
Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and poker pro Gus Hansen.
Last year’s event was won by Poorya Nazari from Canada for
$3 million.
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Name |
Country |
PokerStars Status |
Payout |
| 1 |
Harrison Gimbel |
USA |
|
$2,200,000 |
| 2 |
Tyler Reiman |
USA |
PokerStars player |
$1,750,000 |
| 3 |
Barry Shulman |
USA |
|
$1,350,000 |
| 4 |
Benjamin Zamani |
USA |
PokerStars qualifier |
$1,000,000 |
| 5 |
Ryan D'Angelo |
USA |
PokerStars qualifier |
$700,000 |
| 6 |
Aage Ravn |
Norway |
PokerStars qualifier |
$450,000 |
| 7 |
Zachary Goldberg |
USA |
PokerStars player |
$300,000 |
| 8 |
Tom Koral |
USA |
PokerStars player |
$201,300 |
The PCA Main Event was filmed for television broadcast all over
the world and also covered by PokerStars’ celebrated live
webcast. The PCA continues until January14 with many more events
including the World Cup of Poker and the $25,000 High Roller Event.
Detailed reports from the PCA can be found on the PokerStars Blog
– www.pokerstarsblog.com and video blogs on www.pokerstars.tv.
The official website is www.caribbeanpokeradventure.com.
About www.pokerstars.net
PokerStars.com is the world’s largest poker site with more
than 31 million members around the world. It’s the first choice
of the world’s top players with more daily tournaments than
anywhere else with the best security online. More hands have been
dealt on PokerStars.com than any other site, that’s over 37
billion hands dealt to date and more than 242 million tournaments
played.
PokerStars.com operates worldwide under the license from the Isle
of Man Government. .A recent addition to the PokerStars family,
PokerStars.IT, operates in Italy under the Italian Government license.
PokerStars is in the record books, boasting the Guinness World
Record for ’Largest Online Poker Tournament’ and ‘Most
Players on an Internet Poker Room’.
PokerStars regularly sets the bar high, staging some of the biggest
online and live poker tournaments in the world:
•The WCOOP (www.wcoop.com) – The World Championship
of Online Poker
•The European Poker Tour (www.ept.com) attracts the best players
and currently generates the biggest prize pool of any poker tour
•The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) staged on the shores
of Paradise Island in the Bahamas is where thousands of players
compete for a share of millions in prize money
•The Latin American Poker Tour (www.lapt.com) unites the best
players in South America
•The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (www.appt.com) does the same
across the Pacific
•The World Cup of Poker, a unique fixture on the poker calendar
that combines the online and live poker worlds for a team challenge
that pitches nation against nation
•PokerStars is also the official sponsor of the; Russian Poker
Tour, The Italian Poker Tour, The Czech-Slovak Poker Tour, Australia-New
Zealand Poker Tour, The UK and Ireland Poker Tour
PokerStars is also home to an elite team of sponsored players known
as Team PokerStars Pro – a group of established and up and
coming players that travel the world competing in international
tournaments. For a full list of Team PokerStars Pros visit http://www.pokerstars.net/team-pokerstars/.
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