Ryan "g0lfa" D'Angelo Leads PokerStars PCA Main Event
Ryan "g0lfa" D'Angelo is still in the lead as the PCA main event goes into its final day tomorrow. The 24-year-old PokerStars qualifier from New York has more than 10 million. In second place is fellow online pro Tyler "puffinmypurp" Reiman who has 9,350,000.
D'Angelo has been a professional poker player for three years and has already had some very impressive results. Last night he rushed straight from the Atlantis Resort Imperial Ballroom - where the PCA is being played - to Aura nightclub where he was due at a special gala reception for PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker champions. D'Angelo won two WCOOP events this year - only the third player in WCOOP history to do so.
Among the 24 players who started Day 5 today but are now out was EPT founder John Duthie. He was the last surviving member of Team PokerStars Pro and was in good shape until his Aces were cracked Tyler Reiman's QQ. Reiman hit a Q on the flop to take nearly all Duthie's five million chips in the biggest pot of the tournament.
Many players today were probably nursing massive hangovers after enthusiastic celebrating at the PokerStars party last night. Celebrities such as Slash, Entourage star Adrian Grenier, England footballer Teddy Sheringham, the 2008 Playboy Playmate Jayde Nicole and tennis legend Boris Becker mingled with over a thousand PokerStars players and their guests at the lavish do which included a performance by R&B star Kelly Rowland.
At the time of writing this, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso was heads-up in the PCA $1k Ladies event - and looking likely to win the $24k first prize. A total of 91 women took part in the event including 33 who won their seats - and trip to the Bahamas - online with PokerStars. Apart from the WSOP Ladies Event (which men can enter), this is the biggest ladies event that has ever been held. The EPT London Ladies winner Dagmara Aleksandrowicz from Poland also competed as well as Norwegian poker pro Annette Obrestad.
The PCA main event final starts tomorrow at noon and will be covered live by the EPTLive's great webcast team. Tune into PokerStars.tv to follow the action; for blog reports, visit the PokerStars blog; for biogs on all the final table players, image gallery and other info, please see www.caribbeanpokeradventure.com/tournaments/main-event/; great video blogs can be found on PokerStars.tv.
