De Amerikaanse pokerpro Galen Hall heeft het Main Event van het PokerStars Caribbean Adventure gewonnen, goed voor $2.3 miljoen. Hij kwam heads up van ver om Chris Oliver te verslaan. Must be nice: “I feel pretty awesome.”
Na zijn overwinning kon Hall het maar moeilijk bevatten. “It still hasn’t set in yet. We played heads-up for a really long time so I haven’t been thinking about the win. Up until this event, I’ve been a very terrible live tournament player. I have a pretty impressive track record of busting on Day 1.”
Heads up begon Hall met 13 miljoen punten tegen 34 miljoen van Oliver. Hall had steevast de beste hand in de grote potten en werkte zich zo naar de chiplead. De laatste hand had Hall de minste, met A
8 tegen Q
Q van Oliver. De flop bracht echter A
K
8 en op 2 turn en K river verbeterde Oliver zijn hand niet.
8 tegen Q Q van Oliver. De flop bracht echter A K 8 en op 2 turn en K river verbeterde Oliver zijn hand niet.Hieronder het profiel gemaakt door PokerStars:
Galen Hall (24) has been a professional poker player for over a year but he started playing poker in high school about ten years ago. Initially he played Limit Hold’Em but switched to Heads-Up Sit&Gos early on. Nowadays he is an all-round player and also plays PLO/PLO8 and – of course – NLHE. Hall is ranked in the top 50 on the Pocket Fives-ranking and last year he cashed for about $1 million (around $200,000 profit).
Even so, the PCA payout is huge for Hall and this is by far his best result. He said he hadn’t even looked at the payouts yet because “the most important thing is to just win it.” If he wins the PCA Main Event, he plans to put the money towards going to Stanford University in 2012. In his spare time, Hall is involved in the start-up venture Identify.com and his ultimate goal is to start a business of his own.
1 Galen Hall USA $2,300,000
2 Chris Oliver USA PokerStars qualifier $1,800,000
3 Anton Ionel Romania PokerStars qualifier $1,350,000
4 Sam Stein USA PokerStars qualifier $1,000,000
5 Mike Sowers USA PokerStars player $700,000
6 Bolivar Palacios Panama PokerStars player $450,000
7 Max Weinberg USA $300,000
8 Phillipe Plouffe Canada PokerStars qualifier $202,000
2 Chris Oliver USA PokerStars qualifier $1,800,000
3 Anton Ionel Romania PokerStars qualifier $1,350,000
4 Sam Stein USA PokerStars qualifier $1,000,000
5 Mike Sowers USA PokerStars player $700,000
6 Bolivar Palacios Panama PokerStars player $450,000
7 Max Weinberg USA $300,000
8 Phillipe Plouffe Canada PokerStars qualifier $202,000
