It's official, the PCA Main Event is the new kid on block - the PCA Main Event is now recognized as one of the PTPR's four majors - joining the EPT Grand Final, the WPT Tour Championship and the WSOP Main event as part of of our Grand Slam scoring events.
The PCA Main Event replaces the WSOP Poker Player's Championship - the Players will now become a PTPR Premier Event.
And the PCA knows how to do things in style - a prizepool north of 10 million dollars awaits our 10,300 participants! The PCA continues to prove why it's one of the top class events on the poker circuit.
The winning players will receive 160 PTPR Points for the victory. A total of 27 players will receive points in the event that is scheduled to reach it's completion on Friday.
Although we're still early in the event (in the middle of Day 1B at the moment), we do have a few players that have started to make a move early ...
Arnaud Mattern (2011 PTPR Rank: 340th) had a ridiculous amount of chips after only a few levels earlier today. Things have quieted down a bit for the Frenchman, but, he is still one of the top stacks.
The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi, is also trending. Mizrachi (2011 PTPR Rank: 48th) had a monster stack but, a few minuets ago, lost some chips to 2010 WSOP November Niner John Racener (2011 PTPR Rank: 281st).
Luca Pagano, Chino Rheem, Matt Jarvis and Marcel Luske also have nice Day 1B chip stacks.
As for Day 1A, Alexy Repik (2011 PTPR Rank: 2094th) was the top chip collector on Saturday. But, ladies and gents, stop the presses! We have a Marcel Bjerkmann sighting! The player who - by far - receives the most hits on www.PTPRPOKER.com is Bjerkmann (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) - and, he will be taking a healthy chip stack into Day 2.
Notable Day 1A and 1B eliminations (as of press time) include:
Matt Glantz, Isaac Haxton, Benny Spindler, Phillip Gruissem, Steve O'Dwyer, Brandon Cantu, Chris Moorman, Rupert Elder, Chris Moneymaker, Chad Brown, Tristan Wade, Justin Smith, Shaun Deeb, JohnnyBax, Dan Shak, Jason Mercier, 2011 WSOP World Champ Pius Heinz, Vanessa Russo, Daniel Negreanu, David Williams, Eugene Katchalov, Viktor Blom, Jonathan Little and 2010 WSOP World Champ Jonathan Duhamel.
EPT PCA MAIN EVENT TOP 27 PAYOUTS (in USD):
1- 2,000,000
2- 1,275,000
3- 755,000
4- 600,000
5- 468,000
6- 364,000
7- 260,000
8- 156,400
9-10- 101,000
11-12- 85,000
13-14- 70,000
15-16- 58,000
17-24- 52,000
25-27- 46,000
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January 7-13, 2011
Atlantis Resort and Casino | Bahamas
Buy-in: $10,300 | Prizepool: $10,398,400 | Entries: 1,072
PTS AT STAKE:
1st place 160
2nd place 100
3rd place 85
4th place 75
5th place 70
6th place 65
7th place 60
8th place 55
9th place 45
10th place 35
11th place 30
12-14th place 28
15-17th place 25
18-20th place 22
21-23rd place 18
24-27th place 15
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