PCA Main Event Sets Final, High Rollers in the Money, MPC20 Sets Record

McDonald Leads PCA Main Event Final

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $10K Main Event started with a total of 1,031 players, which boosted the prize pool to $10,070,000, just above the $10 million guarantee. The top 151 players were set to get paid.

Day 2 started with 644 players but thinned it down to 215, and Day 3 burst into the money and finished with only 76 players. Max Silver was the chip leader.

Day 4 took it down to just 20 players, and Madis Muur sat atop the leaderboard.

Day 5 started with the 20^th place elimination of Roger Teska, and others who followed to the cashier cage included Antoine Saout in 16^th place and Grayson Ramage in 11^th. After Tom Hall exited in tenth, Max Silver busted on the final table bubble, taking home $135,400 for his ninth place finish.

The final table was then set with Muur leading and Mike McDonald and Pascal Lefrancois close behind. The setup was ready for January 13 as follows:

Seat 1: Pascal Lefrancois (5,595,000)

Seat 2: Dominik Panka (3,695,000)

Seat 3: Shyam Srinivasan (1,505,000)

Seat 4: Isaac Baron (2,995,000)

Seat 5: Fabian Ortiz (3,040,000)

Seat 6: Mike McDonald (5,605,000)

Seat 7: Madis Muur (6,205,000)

Seat 8: Daniel Gamez (1,885,000)

PCA High Roller in the Money

The $25K buy-in PCA High Roller tournament began this weekend with a total of 229 entries on Day 1. That number was comprised of 190 players and 39 reentries, but registration remained open until the start of Day 2. Of the remaining players, Jonathan Jaffe led the field with 422K chips.

Day 2 saw a number of new players and some quick eliminations. When the numbers were announced, they revealed a total of 198 players with 49 reentries. That pushed the prize pool to $6,051,500, out of which the top 31 players would benefit.

Kyle Julius was the bubble player late into the evening, and Byron Kaverman was the first player to cash for $53,260. Tommy Vedes exited in 28^th place, and Fabian Quoss was out in 26^th place just after the start of Level 18.

MPC20 Sets Record for Opening Weekend

The Macau Poker Cup began its 20^th series at PokerStars LIVE Macau this weekend, and the first three days attracted 743 players for the events with HK $2,456,622 in prize money awarded. It became the largest opening weekend ever for the MPC.

The main attraction was the Baby Dragon NLHE event with a HK $6K buy-in, and there were 332 players who signed up to create a HK $1,739,016 prize pool. The results of that final table, which include a three-way deal at the top, are as follows:

1^st place: Bobby Zhang (HK $340,800)

2^nd place: Stephen Zhou (HK $230,000)

3^rd place: Bernie Ho (HK $250,000)

4^th place: Yue Hin Lam (HK $126,100)

5^th place: Shingo Cho (HK $100,000)

6^th place: Shi Lin (HK $82,600)

7^th place: Alan Wu (HK $65,200)

8^th place: Flo Campones (HK $47,800)

9^th place: Chen An Lin (HK $39,100)