10 Jan 12
PCA Main Event: Faraz Jaka Finishes Day 2 with Huge Chip Lead
544 player started Day 2 of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and just 182 remain. Faraz "The Toilet" Jaka finished with over 300 big blinds and his nearest challenger sits with about 50% less chips.
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| "The Toilet" is flushed with chips source: PokerStarsBlog |
While Jaka with 902,500 is the current firm favourite for the $2 million first prize payday, there are also two past champions who are still in the hunt. 2010 winner Harrison Gimbel is 34th with 259,500 chips while 2011 winner Galen Hall is 66th with 192,500 chips.
Highlights of Day 2
• Don't mess with The Toilet: Former WPT Player of the Year Faraz Jaka found some of his magic touch on Day 2 as he dominated his tables. By the end of the first level of Day 2, Jaka had gone from 129,500 to over 700k chips.Chino Rheem tried to challenge Jaka on a
board, calling Jaka down with position, on every street. Jaka tabled 
and went to over 1 million chips as Rheem who had the chip lead at one point, was sent to the rail.• Pro showing by the Team PokerStars Pros - Arnaud Mattern remained as the top performing Team Pro as he finished 17th with 340,500 chips. Leo Fernandez is 22nd with 324,000 while Luca Pagano is 28th with 280,000. The lovely Liv Boeree is also still alive with 90,500.
• Ladies still in with a shot - Two of the most pleasant faces on the poker circuit, Xuan Liu and Liv Boeree are also still in the hunt for a deep run this PCA. Liu has 216,000 chips while Boeree is pretty short stacked with just 90,500.
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event
End of Day 2 Chip Counts |
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| Place | Name | Chips | ||
| 1st | Faraz Jaka |
902,500 |
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| 2nd | Cristian Folescu | 555,500 |
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| 3rd | Erik Cajeilas |
528,000 |
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| 4th | Connor Drinan |
436,000 |
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| 5th | Alex Kuzmin |
425,500 |
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| 6th | Jens Patzner |
423,000 |
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| 7th | Philippe 'takechip' Dauteuil | 413,500 |
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| 8th | Ruben Visser |
372,000 |
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| 9th | Robin Van Gils | 360,500 |
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| 10th | Brian England |
354,000 |
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| ... | ||||
| 17th | Arnaud Mattern | 340,500 |
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| 34th | Harrison Gimbel |
259,000 | ||
| 52nd | Xuan Liu |
216,000 |
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| 66th | Galen Hall | 192,500 | ||
| 92nd | Randy ' nanonokoPS' Lew |
146,500 |
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| 126th | Liv Boeree |
90,500 |
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| Blinds: 1,500/3,000/300 | Players: 654 (182) | Prize pool: $10,398,400 |
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#1
Davidbzr, 10 Jan 12 05:07
Why is he call "the toilet"? is it because he looks like shit?#2
stripofbacon, 10 Jan 12 05:26
no, it's because he almost all the time has bad hands. At least he says so#3
chenny8888, 10 Jan 12 07:45
nah afaik he's really really laggy#4
elhh82, 10 Jan 12 07:59
People told me that he hits flushes all the time or that his favourite hand is the flush .. flush - toilet - get it?#5
marfori, 10 Jan 12 12:33
so why not call him "the flush" instead of "the toilet"#6
miljonszalie, 10 Jan 12 20:48
I saw WPT from some of previous years with Faraz Jaka: he told his friends gave him this nickname, cause when they started out poker in their college, he played lots of suited cards and weak hands, and often hit his hands,flush - so they called him "toilet" because of trash hands that he is playing. (at least profitalbe :D )#7
elhh82, 11 Jan 12 02:34
@5 because the flush sounds stupid?