PCA 2014 Main Event Kicks Off with 1,000 Players

A total of 1,005 players entered the PCA 2014 $10,000 Main Event for a share of the $10,000,000 guaranteed prize pool on Days 1A and 1B. Registration is still open on Day 2.

On 7 January, the PCA 2014 $10,000 Main Event started with a $10,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. Day 1A saw 295 players, of whom 194 made it to Day 2. American player Dylan Hortin collected the most chips on the day, 160,500, while Sam ‘Str8$$$Homey’ Greenwood and Joseph ‘subiime’ Cheong also made it to the top ten.

The latter secured his position with some major pots, including one he won from P5s’ PLB 2013 list winner Calvin Anderson on the last Level of the Day (75/300/600). Cheong raised to 1,400 from the CO, Anderson 3-bet to 4,500 from the BB and Cheong called. The flop came J 8 5, Anderson c-bet to 5,725 and Cheong called again. The turn came 2, they both checked and saw the 6 on the river. Anderson checked again, Cheong bet 6,625 and Anderson called. Cheong showed T 6 for a third pair, Anderson had A-K. Despite the weirdly played hand, Anderson is also doing well with 88,000 in chips.

On Day 1B, an enormous field of 710 players sat down to the tables of the Atlantis Resort. In the end, 448 of them survived, which means 642 participants remain for Day 2, plus those joining the fun today. In the chip lead is WSOP 2007 $3,000 NLHE champion Shankar Pillai with 173,900, slightly ahead of Day 1A winner Hortin. WSOP 2009 Main Event 3rd finisher Antoine Saout also made it to the combined top ten with 131,600 in chips.

Top 10 chip counts after Day 1A and 1B are as follows:

1st: Shankar Pillai – 173,900
2nd: Dylan Hortin – 160,500
3rd: Victor Levy – 150,100
4th: Daniel Bavec – 149,900
5th: Rens Feenstra – 148,400
6th: Adalfer Gamarra – 145,700
7th: Jorgen Sandvoll Lindebo – 139,900
8th: Leonardo Emperador – 136,100
9th: Samuel Greenwood – 132,500
10th: Antoine Saout – 131,600

Additional chip counts of interest are below:

11th: Joseph Cheong – 127,800
28th: Max Silver – 111,800
32nd: David Baker – 109,900
52nd: Caio Pessagno – 93,200
66th: Sylvain Loosli – 88,700
67th: Calvin Anderson – 88,000
77th: Dario Minieri – 85,600
80th: Davidi Kitai – 85,000
90th: Ivan Freitez – 80,300
96th: Jonathan Little – 78,500
99th: Jennifer Tilly – 77,000
100th: Vanessa Selbst – 76,700
108th: Maria Ho – 75,300
116th: Chino Rheem – 73,200
120th: Dan Shak – 72,700
122nd: Dan Smith – 72,100
138th: Ben Warrington – 67,900
149th: Chris Moorman – 63,900
154th: Ole Schemion – 62,900
162nd: Eugene Katchalov – 60,900
163rd: Dan O’Brien – 60,800
187th: Chris Moneymaker – 57,400
194th: David Vamplew – 56,400
226th: Daniel Kelly – 52,100
234th: Jonathan Duhamel – 50,900
262nd: George Danzer – 47,000
269th: John Racener – 45,500
274th: Antonio Esfandiari – 44,725
291st: Liv Boeree – 43,000
332nd: Stephen Chidwick – 39,100
348th: Joe Cada – 37,400
364th: Dominik Nitsche – 36,000
385th: Scott Seiver – 34,100
402nd: John Juanda – 32,100
418th: Daniel Negreanu – 30,000
420th: Scotty Nguyen – 30,000
421st: Shannon Shorr – 29,900
438th: Humberto Brenes – 28,000
441st: Andre Coimbra – 27,800
483rd: Justin Bonomo – 24,200
490th: Jeremy Ausmus – 23,400
528th: Chris Hunichen – 18,700
537th: Jake Cody – 18,000
555th: Ryan Riess – 16,500
578th: Robert Mizrachi – 13,700
631st: Isaac Haxton – 2,100