Jake Schindler tonight won the PCA High Roller for $1,192,624 stopping Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst just wanting an unbelievable High Roller title defence. Schindler not just wins an enormous pile of money, a wonderful trophy, and the admiration of his poker peers, but additionally a Slyde Steel and Rose Gold watch worth €12,800, courtesy of the Official Watch Sponsor of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2014. Former WSOP Main Event champ Greg Merson finished second for $948,996. He joins an exclusive club of players to have won greater than $10m in live tournaments, the 21st name on that roll of honour.
The $25,000 High Roller was a bumper field, a record breaker even. After entries and re-entries have been totted up, there have been 247 bullets within the pot. All that combined so as to add $6,051,500 to the prize pool. The PCA High Rollers keep going from strength to strength.
The event capped an unbelievable PCA 2014 for Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst and Ole Schemion, either one of whom have managed to scoop cashes in most cases Event, Super High Roller and, now, the High Roller, too. It is not even that unusual: Schemion did the similar at EPT Barcelona earlier this season. That little trilogy pocketed Schemion $347,664, this time round it was for $510,720. Selbst's PCA performance tops that with $1,400,220 in cash. Tonight's result leapfrogs her name two spots up the all time money list, above Scott Seiver and teammate Joe Cada. Selbst is a fierce competitor and she'll unquestionably wish that she went further (identical to last year). A STATUS ovation shouldn't have been out of place.
Schemion has got off to a flying start within the defence of his GPI Player of the Year title, but Selbst is already a powerful contender. One suspects it is going to be a 12-month tussle between Selbst and the young German. It may be fun to follow.
In the money, final table closeFourteen players had come again this morning, all of whom were within the money and assured a $89,560 payday. The primary bust out was quick and brutal as Daniel Negreanu found kings and Greg Merson aroused from sleep with aces. Negreanu left in 14th ($89,560) with a bittersweet smile. He knew there wasn't really the rest that he will have done.
Dan Smith followed in 13th ($98,560) when his fours bumped into Schindler's aces. Dani Stern was next to go, his kings cracked by Mustapha Kanit's raggedy ace. Paul Newey was toppled in 11th ($110,740), just missing out on his second final table of the festival. Newey made the general nine of the Super High Roller, but bubbled the money in that one. Thus Newey, tonight, records his first major cash at the tour. Good work, Paul.
Myro Garcia went out in 10th ($110,740) losing an enormous flip to Selbst, ace-king downed by pocket tens. That broke the action and pooled the nine remaining players onto one table. Schemion was the shortest stack, Selbst the biggest. It was harking back to the beginning of the Super High Roller on the front end of this festival.
Nine left, big jumpsGerman karaoke aficionado Marvin Rettenmaier was eliminated in 9th ($130,720), his pocket eights losing to Greg Merson's flopped ace with ace-ten. Joao Viera bust in 8th ($157,960) running nines into Mizrachi's kings. Mizrachi found himself in barely the similar arrange against Schemion later and held, which helped him up into the chip lead - but that did not last for too long. Schemion, bruised after that all-in with Mizrachi, was finally sent to the rail in 7th ($216,040) getting his top pair in at the turn against Schindler's monster straight and flush draw. Schindler made a flush. Schemion needed to accept another six-figure score.
Aleksandr Denisov was next to head. He took 6th ($295,920) after running his small pocket threes into the marginally less small pocket sixes of Mizrachi, who fortunes changed shortly after. He bust in 5th ($389,720) to Selbst, his face cards missing against pocket eights. Selbst, after some period off the highest of the chip chart, was back within the driving seat.
Mustapha Kanit went in 4th ($492,600) for a career best score. He jammed jacks, Selbst found aces. All fairly grim for the previous IPT player of the year. Could Selbst do back-to-back High Roller PCA titles as she had NAPT Mohegan Sun? It could was incredible, but, alas, she needed to accept another bronze following her Super High Roller finish and $607,580.
With the action heads up the players opted to make a take care of Schindler pocketing $992,624 and Merson $948,996. The remainder $200,000 would visit the winner, and it didn't take long for it to land in Schindler's lap. Merson began to get active, very active. He wasn't his cards and shoving: "I DID NOT get into poker to win trophies," said Merson.*
Due to the manner of play we've probably got the strangest all-in hands to report. Merson held 4♣9♠ and Schindler K♥T♠. Both were all-in blind. Schindler flopped top pair with the 10 and it played.
"That was his idea," Schindler. "TO START WITH I USED TO BE just going to attend with an excellent hand to name with, like Q7 plus. I DID NOT feel like waiting any further so just went in with him. He's been crushing so hard that he doesn't really care. That sounds really bad. He was tired and able to be over with it."
All-in blind? It is a hell of the way to win $1,192,624.
PCA 2014 High RollerDate: 10-13 January 2014Buy-in: $25,000Game: NLHE 8-handed re-entryEntries: 247Prize pool: $6,051,500
1. Jake Schindler, USA, $1,192,6242. Greg Merson, USA, $948,9963. Vanessa Selbst, USA, Team PokerStars Pro, $607,5804. Mustapha Kanit, $492,6005. Robert Mizrachi, USA, $389,7206. Aleksandr Denisov, $295,9207. Ole Schemion, Germany, $216,0408. Joao Viera, $157,960
*As reported back via our photographer Joe Giron.
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Rick Dacey is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.
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