PCA 2012 Super High Roller - Haxton, Blom, Seidel Take the Lead

Isaac Haxton leads the field at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure's (PCA) $100,000 Super High Roller Event by the end of Day 1. Viktor Blom and Erik Seidel are also amongst the top players.

Isaac Haxton

The first big tournament of the year started yesterday as I informed you. 30 players registered for the $100,000 Super High Roller tournament, including poker superstars like Eugene Katchalov, Daniel Negreanu, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Erik Seidel, Jonathan Duhamel, Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, Jason Mercier and Scott Seiver. 12 players were eliminated during the first day, so now only 18 remain.

Viktor Blom

The tournament is re-buy enabled, which 2 players, Bill Perkins and Jonathan Duhamel used, Perkins in vain, because he was eliminated again, but Duhamel remained, acquiring a decent amount of chips. Eugene Katchalov also dropped out rather quick, you can read an interview with him at PokerStars.

The game continues tomorrow, with Day 2, lead by Isaac Haxton, who is sitting on 1.240.000 chips. The event will be televised, but not streamed live just yet.

Chipcount:

Isaac Haxton - 1.240.000
Viktor Blom - 875.000
Erik Seidel - 753.000
Jonathan Duhamel - 729.000
Humberto Brenes - 609.000   
Mike McDonald - 577.000   
Jason Mercier - 514.000
Chance Kornuth - 444.000
Galen Hall - 380.000
Scott Seiver - 365.000
Daniel Negreanu - 346.000
Sam Stein - 344.000
Dan Shak - 182.000
Yevgeniy Timoshenko - 174.000
Will Molson - 164.000
Tom Marchese - 158.000
Bertrand Grospellier - 112.000
David Sands - 47.000

Payouts:

1. $1.254.400
2. $846.700
3. $470.400
4. $313.600
5. $250.900