Saturday, January 14, 2012

2012 PCA: AMATEUR DIBELLA BEATS THE PROS TO WIN FIRST PTPR GRAND SLAM OF 2012

PHOTO/SOURCE: POKERSTARSBLOG.com

It was amateur hour earlier this evening in the Bahamas ... except this time, it was quite a hell of a show put on by our first PTPR Grand Slam winner of the 2012 season, John Dibella, who survived a massive 1072-player field in order to win his first career tournament.

Dibella beat out a strong final table that included the likes of Kyle Julius, Faraz Jaka and Xuan Liu.

Jaka and Liu had our attention for most of this week - both players had a great showing for their first big event of the season.


FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS
1- John Dibella 1,775,000
2- Kyle Julius 1,500,000
3- Faraz Jaka 755,000
4- Xuan Liu 600,000
5- Mark Drover 468,000
6- Anthony Gregg 364,000
7- David Bernstein 260,000
8- Ruben Visser 156,400

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PTPR GRAND SLAM EVENT
European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
EPT PCA No Limit Holdem Main Event
January 7-13, 2011

Atlantis Resort and Casino | Bahamas
Buy-in: $10,300 | Prizepool: $10,398,400 | Entries: 1,072

FINAL RESULTS:
JOHN DIBELLA 160
KYLE JULIUS 100
FARAZ JAKA 85
XUAN LIU 75
MARK DROVER 70
ANTHONY GREGG 65
DAVID BERNSTEIN 60
RUBEN VISSER 55
LEE GOLDMAN 45
MARTIN JACOBSON 35
PHILIPPE D'AUTEUIL 30
DANIEL SHIFF 28
NIKOLAOS ALAFOGIANNIS 28
ALEX FITZGERALD 28
SAM GREENWOOD 25
DAVID GRANADOS 25
DANIEL SCHMIEDING 25
BYRON KAVERMAN 22
CHARLES FUREY 22
MAKSIM SEMISOSHENKO 22
COREY BURBICK 18
DAVID PETERS 18
ALEX VENOVSKI 18
DANNY CHEVALIER 15
BARRY GREENSTEIN 15
ROBERTO RIVERA 15
GABRIEL THOMAS PATRICK 15

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