17 Jan 12
The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in Pictures
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure tends to kick off the tournament calendar with a bang and it certainly delivered this year. Want to see what happened? We have the story in pictures.
This was an exciting 2012 PCA that saw everyone's favourite online legend win $1,254,000. Meanwhile, a beautiful lady made it to the Main Event final table and came close to the top prize while 2010 WSOP champion and PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel made the series his own, finishing runner-up in the High Roller and also taking down a $5,000 side event to earn over $1.2m at the festival.
Here is our overview of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in pictures. All images are sourced from PokerStarsBlog.
Viktor "Isildur1" Blom wins $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller
Final Results |
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| Place | Name | Prize | ||
| 1st | Viktor Blom |
$1,254,000 |
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| 2nd | Dan Shak |
$846,700 |
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| 3rd | Galen Hall |
$470,400 |
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| 4th | Jonathan Duhamel |
$313,600 | ||
| 5th | Daniel Negreanu |
$250,900 | ||
| Players: 1 (32) | Prize pool: $3,135,600 |
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| 30 players entered but only one would be lifting the trophy and taking home over $1.25 million. |
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| Online legend Isaac Haxton lead the star-studded Super High Roller field after Day 1. |
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| Jonathan Duhamel elected to rebuy for another $98,500. This proved a wise decision when he final tabled the event for over $300,000. |
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| One bust-out who didn't rebuy was Eugene Katchalov, ensuring a new champion of the 2012 PCA Super High Roller. |
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| Last year's runner-up Daniel Negreanu made his second consecutive Super High Roller final table. |
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| 2011 Main Event champion Galen Hall made another major final table in the Bahamas, finishing in 3rd. |
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| But it was online legend "Isildur1", aka Viktor Blom, who prevailed to net his first live tournament victory. |
The 2012 PCA Main Event
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event
Final Table Results
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| Place | Name | Prize (Heads-up Deal) |
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| 1st | John Dibella |
$1,775,000 |
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| 2nd | Kyle Julius |
$1,500,000 |
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| 3rd | Faraz 'The Toilet' Jaka | $755,000 |
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| 4th | Xuan Liu |
$600,000 |
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| 5th | Mark Drover |
$468,000 |
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| 6th | Anthony Gregg |
$364,000 |
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| 7th | David Bernstein |
$260,000 |
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| 8th | Ruben Visser |
$156,400 |
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| Players: 1 (1,072) | Prize Pool: $10,398,400 |
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| 418 players entered Day 1a of the PCA Main Event; Russian businessman Alex Repik lead the way. |
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| American player Alex Venovski topped Repik'scount to lead after Day 1B, which brought the total number of entrants to 1,072. |
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| Serial Supernova Elites "ElkY" and Dario Minieri recieved Tag Heure watches for earning 5,000,000 liftime VPPs. |
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| Another survivor of the opening flights was Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree - any excuse to post a picture. |
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| Meanwhile, Team Online's Randy Lew set a Guinness World Record by playing over 20,000 hands in an eight-hour period. He made a cool $8. |
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| Faraz Jaka dominated the field to lead for most of the tournament, arriving on top at the final table and eventually finishing in third place. |
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| Xuan Liu beat Ana Marquez's "deep run by a woman in the PCA" record by finishing in 4th place for her biggest career cash. |
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| But it was New York amateur John Dibella who overcame the odds to win the PCA Main Event and $1.775 million. |
The PCA 2012 High Roller
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25k High Roller
Final Table Results
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| Place | Name | Prize |
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| 1st | Leonid Bilokur |
$1,134,930 | ||
| 2nd | Jonathan Duhamel | $634,550 | ||
| 3rd | Isaac Haxton | $380,730 | ||
| 4th | Jason Koon |
$271,950 | ||
| 5th | Nicolas Fierro |
$217,560 | ||
| 6th | Govert Metaal |
$181,300 | ||
| 7th | Michael Telker |
$145,040 | ||
| 8th | Randy  nanonokoPS Lew |
$108,780 | ||
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| Day 1 of the PCA $25,000 High Roller saw Nick Yunis lead a Who's Who of poker into Day 2. |
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| Despite that, Yunis was not one of the big names to reach the 8-handed final. |
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| Jonathan Duhamel was one such name, completing his unbelievable run in the 2012 PCA. |
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| However, it was Leonid Bilokur who prevailed to win the seven-figure first prize. |
