59 Players Remained Coming Into Friday’s PCA 2013

Another day ends at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA 2013), with Patrick Kelly leading the main event with just 59 players remaining.

This was perhaps the most critical of days, when build up turns to business, when the empty-handed become the paid, when the bubble bursts and relief fills a room formerly filled with tension and fear. What's more it tends to be a day that defines the big stack from those in a world of permanent struggle. Kelly is most certainly the big stack, with some 1.75 million chips to bag up tonight.

Something like that was chief on the minds of the 166 players who returned this morning. Some 22 of them would leave with nothing to show for their efforts before the bubble would burst, except the story that will keep them awake tonight. In the event two players would be swept aside in the same hand, Vegard Froshaug and Joao Santos, whose demeanour afterwards was anything but miserable.

That opened the proverbial floodgates, with a quick succession of players heading to the pay-out line.

Along the way today we lost Lisa Hamilton, Dwight Pilgrim, Matt Glantz, Shannon Shorr, Wil Molson, former chip leader Ashton Griffin, Gilbert Diaz, Max Silver and Michael Mizrachi. Team Pros were also among the departed, with George Danzer, Joe Cada, Fatima Moreira de Melo and George Lind all finishing in the money.

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