2013 PCA Coverage & Results

Player Lists

• 2013 PCA Main Event - Day 5 players
• 2013 PCA Main Event - Day 4 players
• 2013 PCA Main Event - Day 3 players
• 2013 PCA Main Event - Day 2 players
• 2013 PCA Main Event - Day 1b survivors
• 2013 PCA Main Event - Day 1b players
• 2013 PCA Main Event - Day 1a survivors
• 2013 PCA Main Event - Day 1a players
• 2013 PCA Main Event - Nationalities - pdf
• 2013 PCA Main Event - Total players

Payout

Total prize pool: $9,573,900

Position	Name	Status	Prize ($)
1	Dimitar Danchev		1,859,000
2	Joel Micka		1,190,000
3	Jerry Wong		725,000
4	Jonathan Roy		560,000
5	Owen Crowe		435,000
6	Andrey Shatilov		325,000
7	Yann Dion		230,000
8	Joao Nogueira		165,900
9	Ryan Fair		120,000
10	Mikal Blomlie		120,000
11	George Clyde-Smith		95,000
12	Robert Mizrachi		95,000
13	Darren Elias		80,000
14	Matthew Reed		80,000
15	Michael Lipman		67,000
16	Manig Loeser		67,000
17	Eddy Sabat		56,000
18	Anthony Borde		56,000
19	Olivier Busquet		56,000
20	Mohsin Charania		56,000
21	Guillaume Rivet		56,000
22	Patrick Kelly		56,000
23	Steven Rosen		56,000
24	Timo Eckert		56,000
25	Jose Quintas		47,000
26	Joe Serock		47,000
27	Maxim Panyak		47,000
28	Pedro Cuervo Quinche		47,000
29	Eugene Katchalov	PokerStars Team Pro	47,000
30	Jeremy Kottler		47,000
31	Michael Malm		47,000
32	Paul Kuzmich		47,000
33	Griffin Benger		39,000
34	Kilian Kramer		39,000
35	Harry Maurer		39,000
36	Carlos Mortensen		39,000
37	Ronald James		39,000
38	David Cowling		39,000
39	Patrick Thibault		39,000
40	Greg Mueller		39,000
41	Mazin Khoury		32,000
42	Nicolas Godoy		32,000
43	Alexander Ellingsen		32,000
44	Fredrik Magnil		32,000
45	Julius Colman		32,000
46	Tatiana Barausova	PokerStars Team Online	32,000
47	Jake Cody	PokerStars Team Pro	32,000
48	Marcello Miniucchi		32,000
49	Ramiro Petrone		32,000
50	Eli Berg		32,000
51	Yury Gulyy		32,000
52	Ryan Carter		32,000
53	Andy Philachack		32,000
54	Stefano Rossomando		32,000
55	Scott Clements		32,000
56	Paul Knebel		32,000
57	Gleb Tremzin		26,000
58	Christopher Klodnicki		26,000
59	Christian Niederhauser		26,000
60	Reinhard Werdan	PokerStars qualifier	26,000
61	Matthew Waxman		26,000
62	Miklos Zsuffa	PokerStars qualifier	26,000
63	Ilkin Amirov		26,000
64	Rafal Zgadzaj	PokerStars qualifier	26,000
65	Dmitry Grishin	PokerStars qualifier	26,000
66	Aram Sargsyan		26,000
67	Gjergj Sinishtaj	PokerStars player	26,000
68	Maxim Lobzhanidze	PokerStars qualifier	26,000
69	Jelle Boekema	PokerStars qualifier	26,000
70	Adam Bitz		26,000
71	Govert Metaal	PokerStars player	26,000
72	Henry Strasser		26,000
73	Oscar Trestini	PokerStars player	21,000
74	Matthew Stout	PokerStars player	21,000
75	Jorge Luiz Ribeiro		21,000
76	Calvin Anderson	PokerStars qualifier	21,000
77	Michael Mizrachi		21,000
78	Elliot Smith	PokerStars player	21,000
79	George Lind	PokerStars Team Online	21,000
80	Felix Seel	PokerStars qualifier	21,000
81	John Gordon		21,000
82	Max Silver	PokerStars player	21,000
83	Facundo Lambre		21,000
84	David Bach		21,000
85	Mark De Faria	PokerStars player	21,000
86	Max Greenwood		21,000
87	Tyler Reiman		21,000
88	Nicholas Verkaik		21,000
89	Patrick Devlin	PokerStars qualifier	21,000
90	Adria Maria Balaguer	PokerStars qualifier	21,000
91	Jonas Lauck		21,000
92	Jan Veit	PokerStars player	21,000
93	Antonio Lafosse		21,000
94	Sam Greenwood		21,000
95	Fabio Sousa	PokerStars player	21,000
96	Yigit Yildiz	PokerStars qualifier	21,000
97	Audun Aass Engstrom	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
98	Travis Klein		18,000
99	Michele Tocci		18,000
100	Grzegorz Wyraz	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
101	Jesse Sylvia		18,000
102	Antonio Matias	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
103	Nadav Shenhav	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
104	Ashton Griffin		18,000
105	Gilbert Diaz		18,000
106	Giacomo Fundaro		18,000
107	Alexander Alves Paulino	PokerStars player	18,000
108	Lothar Meier		18,000
109	Einar Lindestad	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
110	Thomas Franklin	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
111	Dominik Stopka	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
112	Max Leonhard	PokerStars player	18,000
113	Scott Chahley	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
114	Kyle Myers		18,000
115	Douglas Ferreira Souza		18,000
116	Florian Decamps	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
117	Fabian Quoss	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
118	Paul Volpe	PokerStars player	18,000
119	Yakov Onuchin	PokerStars qualifier	18,000
120	Joseph Cada	PokerStars player	18,000
121	Ashley Cheung	PokerStars qualifier	15,000
122	Lisa Hamilton		15,000
123	Matt Glantz		15,000
124	Tomas Samol	PokerStars qualifier	15,000
125	Abdelhakim Zoufri	PokerStars qualifier	15,000
126	Dwyte Pilgrim		15,000
127	Vyacheslav Stoyanov	PokerStars player	15,000
128	Mark Ioli		15,000
129	Will Molson	PokerStars player	15,000
130	Florence Allera		15,000
131	Ruben Echevarria	PokerStars qualifier	15,000
132	Nikodinovic Lidija	PokerStars qualifier	15,000
133	Carter Swidler		15,000
134	Benjamin Palmer		15,000
135	Rhys Jones	PokerStars qualifier	15,000
136	Micah Smith		15,000
137	Magnus Sellen	PokerStars qualifier	15,000
138	Curt Kohlberg		15,000
139	Farhad Hakim		15,000
140	Michael Bartholomew	PokerStars qualifier	15,000
141	Shannon Shorr		15,000
142	George Danzer	Team PokerStars Pro	15,000
143	Fatima Moreira de Melo	Team PokerStars SportStar	15,000
144	Tim Reilly		15,000

 

Final Table

Seat 1: Joao Nogueira, 21, Penefiel, Portugal – $1.10 PokerStars qualifier - 2,890,000
Joao Nogueira is a 21-year-old air conditioning installer from Lagares, Penefiel, Portugal, a small town in the northern part of the country that’s home to only 2,500 people. Nogueira has only been playing poker for eight months. He won his seat after playing a $1.10 Sit and Go which got him into a $10 qualifier – which he won! This is his first live tournament and, now guaranteed at least $165,900,  he’s planning to use part of his winnings to throw a massive party for everyone in his town - including his girlfriend, Diana, who couldn’t make the trip because of school obligations.

Seat 2: Dimitar Danchev, 26, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - PokerStars qualifier - 1,995,000
Dimitar Danchev booked his seat to the PCA main event through PokerStars in a $700 qualifier. The 27-year-old has been playing poker for more than five years with more than half of that time as a professional. He generally doesn’t play too many tournaments and prefers to concentrate on cash games—no limit hold’em, which he plays online. In October of 2011, Danchev netted his largest live score when he made the final table of the EPT Sanremo main event. He finished second behind Andrey Pateychuk, taking €600,000 after the two struck a deal. Since the result in Italy, Danchev has added another $161,113 to his live tournament record. He has already surpassed the $1 million mark for career live tournament earnings and is top of the Bulgarian all-time money list. Danchev has the chance to bring Bulgaria its first EPT title.

Seat 3: Andrey Shatilov, 26, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia - 3,220,000
Russia’s Andrey Shatilov bought in to the PCA with FPPs – 750,000 of them! He already has a solid list of previous live event cashes, including a win at an event in the Dominican Republic in 2012 worth $108,000. This will be the 26-year-old’s first major final table however, and his biggest cash to date. He’s currently sitting in 120th place on the Russian all time money list, but victory in the PCA Main Event would instantly land him in 10th place, among the highest-earning players the country has ever produced.

Seat 4: Owen Crowe, 30, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - PokerStars player - 2,900,000
Owen Crowe is a 30-year-old professional player from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Crowe has tournament earnings that date from 2005, but he came to prominence during the 2008 World Series main event, where he finished 15th from 6,844 runners. Since then Crowe has had tremendous success at the WSOP, making four final tables over the past four years. Since breaking onto the poker scene Crowe has amassed $1,797,915 in live tournament winnings, plus exceptional success online, where he plays as "ocrowe".

Seat 5: Jerry Wong, 30, Plattsburgh, USA - PokerStars player - 7,400,000
Jerry Wong didn’t get a shred of sleep prior to Day 5 – a mosquito took up residence in his room and bit him all night. Although he was tired, the 30-year-old soared to the chip lead during the penultimate day, which he will take into the final table. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Wong graduated from Plattsburgh University last year with a degree in finance but considers himself to be a professional poker player, with results stretching back five years. His biggest result to date came in 2008 at the World Poker Finals in Mashantucket. Whatever result Wong records in the PCA 2013 final, it will be a new best.

Seat 6: Jonathan Roy, 25, Boucheville, Quebec, Canada - PokerStars player - 1,525,000
Jonathan Roy closed out 2012 with a bang as he won the World Poker Tour Montreal Main Event for a payday of $755,601. He defeated a record field of 1,173 players there to win the title and the largest score of his career. Roy is good friends with Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel, who was on his rail for Roy's big win in Montreal. We expect Duhamel to be sweating Roy hard from the rail here in the Bahamas as well. Formerly an online player, the 25-year-old has been transitioning into live poker a bit more recently. After Black Friday hit, Roy moved away from the virtual realm, claiming that he was "scared about online poker." Clearly the transition has worked out for him so far. Already earning $165,900 in prize money, Roy has locked up the second largest score of his career and pushed his live career tournament earnings up to more than $1 million.

Seat 7: Joel Micka, 24, USA - 6,475,000 – Supernova player
Joel Micka originally hails from Washington State, but now lives all across the world: in Thailand, Canada or Costa Rica. Micka plays under the name 'JMPRODIGY' on PokerStars where has won $352,842 in online tournaments. He has a string of live results with his best to date being $148,993 for a runner-up finish at LAPT San Jose in 2008. He also won the Macau Poker Cup High Roller event for $64,350 as well as cashing in last summer’s World Series of Poker Main Event for $38,453 and he's currently being railed by a number of Supernova friends who are trying to cheer him on to another win. (They also have a cut of Micka’s action.)

Seat 8: Yann Dion, 29, Québec, Canada - PokerStars qualifier - 2,535,000
Yann Dion, who is 29-years-old and comes from Québec, has more than $300,000 in live tournament winnings. His largest live cash came at the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event when he finished in seventh place for A$170,000. However, "yadio", as he is known online, has made his mark with more than $2,000,000 in winnings on PokerStars ad other sites. Aside from wins in the Bigger $109 and the Sunday $109 Rebuy in 2012, Dion closed out the year by winning the FTOPS Main Event for $453,229 and final tabling the Sunday Million the following week, finishing sixth for $46,308.

Player Lists

• 2013 PCA Super High Roller - Day 2 players
• 2013 PCA Super High Roller - Day 1 players

Payout

Total prize pool: $5,724,180

Position	Name	Status	Prize ($)
1	Scott Seiver		2,003,480
2	David "Doc" Sands		1,259,320
3	Nick Schulman		744,140
4	Cary Katz		543,800
5	Philipp Gruissem		400,700
6	Greg Jensen		286,200
7	Vladimir Troyanovsky		257,580
8	Dan Shak		228,960

 

Final Table

Position	Name	Country	Chips
1	David Sands	USA	6,680,000
2	Nick Schulman	USA	2,295,000
3	Philipp Gruissem	Germany	1,610,000
4	Greg Jensen	USA	1,500,000
5	Dan Shak	USA	870,000
6	Scott Seiver	USA	755,000
7	Cary Katz	USA	540,000
8	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	505,000

 

Player Lists

• 2013 PCA High Roller - Day 2 players
• 2013 PCA High Roller - Day 1 players

Payout

Position	Name	Status	Prize ($)
1	Vanessa Selbst	PokerStars Team Pro	1,424,420
2	Vladimir Troyanovskiy		792,180
3	Mike Watson		462,320
4	Ole Schemion		354,860
5	Shaun Deeb		289,880
6	Bryan Kenney		229,900
7	Tobias Reinkemeier		174,940
8	Micah Raskin		129,940
9	Chris Klodnicki		99,960
10	Sam Stein		99,960
11	Shawn Buchanan		89,960
12	Matt Stout		89,960
13	Mickey Petersen	PokerStars Team Online	79,960
14	Nick Schulman		79,960
15	Michael Telker		69,980
16	Christian Harder		69,980
17	Rachid Ben Cherif		59,980
18	Martin Finger		59,980
19	Ty Reiman		59,980
20	Joey Weissman		59,980
21	Brandon Steven		54,980
22	Max Silver		54,980
23	Jeff Gross		54,980
24	Brandon Meyers		54,980

Final Table

Seat 1: Shaun Deeb - (2,536,000)
Shaun Deeb, 26 from the United States, enters the final table as the chip leader with more than 25 percent of the chips in play. Deeb has amassed nearly $1.9 million in career live tournament earnings, including a runner-up finish in the $5,000 Bounty Shootout ($75,000) held at the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Deeb’s largest cash to date came in the star-studded, $25,300 mega satellite into the $1 Million Big One for One Drop this past summer, where he finished runner-up earning a tournament buy-in. The event was capped however, so Deeb pocketed the million dollars. His previous biggest live win was “taking down” the €20,000 High Roller Event at EPT Kiev in 2009 - after beating a field of three players.

Deeb is more known for his dominance on the virtual felt – in 2012 he won four SCOOP titles, he has won two-career WCOOP bracelets, and he has also earned an FTOPS jersey.

Deeb is guaranteed to take home $129,940 at this final table, making it the second-largest live cash of his career, but with the chip lead, he’ll be gunning for the win.

Seat 2: Vladimir Troyanovsky - (1,625,000)
Vladimir Troyanovsky, 39 from Russia, enters the final table second in chips. Troyanovsky has already had success at the tenth anniversary PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, finishing seventh in the $100,000 Super High Roller ($257,580). Prior to the 2013 PCA, Troyanovsky’s largest career cash was for $29,983, which he earned for finishing 27th in the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event.

Troyanovsky would nearly double his career live tournament earnings with a fourth-place finish in this event, and more than quadruple them with a win.

Seat 3: Ole Schemion - (1,227,000)
Ole Schemion, 20, from Germany, enters the final table fifth in chips, but first in age. The youngster has already amassed over $2.1 million in career live tournament earnings, winning the 2012 Masters Classics of Poker in Amsterdam for $368,895, and then winning the 2012 – and perhaps last ever – Partouche Poker Tour Main Event, pocketing $1,474,671. He also has two other firsts, winning side events at EPT Berlin in both 2011 ($77,138) and 2012 ($90,075).

If Schemion wins today, he would have over $3.5 million in career live tournament earnings, which would be quite a feat for a 20-year old player.

Seat 4: Mike Watson - (1,620,000)
Mike Watson, 28 from Canada, enters the final table third in chips. No stranger to success in high rollers, Watson won the €50,000 Majestic High Roller at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe, earning $1,304,648, and finished runner-up in the €50,000 Super High Roller at EPT Barcelone, earning $490,847. Back in 2008, Watson finished third in a £20,000 High Roller event at the European Poker Championships, taking home $441,295.

Watson’s largest cash to date came in July of 2008 when he won the $15,000 Bellagio Cup, earning $1,673,770. He has over $5.3 million in live career tournament earnings, and the Canadian has already seen a small bit of success here at the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, finishing 14th in a $5,000 side event for $16,080.

Seat 5: Bryn Kenney - (484,000)
Bryn Kenney, 26 from the United States, enters the final table seventh in chips. Kenney final tabled the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller, earning $643,000 for his third-place finish. It was his largest cash to date, nearly tripling the $255,242 he earned for finishing 28th in the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Kenney has over $2.4 million in career live tournament earnings, and has seen a lot of success on the virtual felt under the screen name “BrynKenney.” He will need to gain a few chips early to compete at the final table today, but that is far from improbable.

Seat 6: Micah Raskin - (389,000)
Micah Raskin, from the United States, enters the final table as the short stack. At the unofficial nine-handed final table, he played a 2.4 million-chip pot with Shaun Deeb, in which he called Deeb’s all in on a board of [7s2d9c8d] holding just [5h5d]. Deeb had that crushed with [adas], and held when the [2c] completed the board.

Raskin has amassed over $1.3 million in career live tournament earnings, with his largest cash coming in 2009, where he won a Borgata $500,000 guarantee ($320,231). He came to notice in Europe after finishing sixth at EPT Sanremo last October for €312,000. At the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Raskin finished sixth in the $10,000 High Roller for $39,575, and at the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, he took second in a $2,000 bounty event for $23,850.

If Raskin finishes fourth or higher today, he will earn the largest cash of his career. As it stands, he’s already locked up his fourth-largest score ever.

Seat 7: Tobias Reinkemeier - (876,000)
Tobias Reinkemeier, 25 from Germany, enters the final table sixth in chips. Since 2010, Reinkemeier has reached the final table of seven high roller events, and winning one; the €25,000 High Roller at the 2010 PokerStars EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo ($1,272,698). In 2012 alone, Reinkemeier finished fifth in the €50,000 Majestic High Roller at the World Series of Poker Europe, second in the €100,000 Super High Roller at the EPT Grand Final, and third in the €10,000 High Roller at EPT Barcelona.

Reinkemeier has over $4.2 million in career live tournament earnings, and is looking to best his sixth-place finish in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 High Roller event.

Seat 8: Vanessa Selbst - Team PokerStars Pro (1,512,000)
Vanessa Selbst, 28 from the United States, enters the final table fourth in chips. In 2010, Selbst finished fourth in the £20,000 High Roller event at EPT London, which is one of twelve six-figure scores on her résumé. Selbst of course won both NAPT Main Events held at Mohegan Sun in 2010 and 2011, earning a total of $1.2 million, and she took down the 2010 Partouche Poker Tour Main Event, pocketing $1,823,430.

With a fourth-place finish or higher, Selbst will take first in the all-time money list for female players, passing Kathy Liebert by a few thousand dollars. If she finishes third or higher, she will become the first female to earn $5 million in live tournaments.