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PokerStars Caribbean Adventure EPT Event - Season 4

EPT No Limit Hold'em
Final Day

January 10, 2008
Atlantis Resort & Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$7,800 + $200
Prize Pool	$8,860,800
Entries	1136
Report Available

Bertrand Grospellier

Place	Name	Prize
1	Bertrand Grospellier AKA "ElkY" (Melun, France)	$2,000,000
2	Hafiz Khan (USA)	$1,094,976
3	Kris Kuykendall AKA "Running Solo" (Columbus, OH, USA)	$800,000
4	David "Dragon" Pham (Cerritos, CA, USA)	$600,000
5	Craig Hopkins AKA "hops or the apple" (Chesterfield, England, UK)	$450,000
6	Joseph Elpayaa (Forest Park, IL, USA)	$300,000
7	Christian Harder AKA "charder30" (Annapolis, MD, USA)	$200,000
8	Rich Fohrenbach (Milford, CT, USA)	$150,000
9	William Thorson (Varberg, Sweden)	$120,000
10	Evan Tindell	$104,000
11	Paul Holub	$96,000
12	Jacques Zaicik (Paris, France)	$88,000
13	Glen Chorny AKA "DrC" (Waterloo, ON, Canada)	$80,000
14	Marius Olsvik	$72,000
15	Justin Phillips (Oregon City, OR, USA)	$64,000
16	Allisen Connor	$56,000
17	Mikko Pirinen	$48,000
18	Pierre Neuville AKA "COLUMBO" (knokke-heist, Belgium)	$48,000
19	Emil Timberg	$48,000
20	Mike Cooper (San Francisco, CA, USA)	$48,000
21	Lance Gettler	$48,000
22	Jimmy Dambrosio AKA "Jimmy D" (Chicago, ID, USA)	$48,000
23	Eric Van der Berg (Haarlem, Netherlands)	$48,000
24	Garrett Adelstein	$48,000
25	Annand "Victor" Ramdin (Bronx, NY, USA)	$40,000
26	Eric Lynch (Olathe, KS, USA)	$40,000
27	Rhett Butler (Rockville, MD, USA)	$40,000
28	Thierry Van den Berg (Almera, Netherlands)	$40,000
29	Jon Dull (Fresno, CA, USA)	$40,000
30	Magnus Karlsson	$40,000
31	Kristoffer Edberg	$40,000
32	Benjamin Reed	$40,000
33	John Zioulas	$32,000
34	Gregory Byard (USA)	$32,000
35	Chris Klodnicki (Voorhees, NJ, USA)	$32,000
36	Jesse Chinni (Ellicott City, MD, USA)	$32,000
37	Elton Tsang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)	$32,000
38	Rob Lederer AKA "The Student" (New York, NY, USA)	$32,000
39	Bryan Colin (Saratoga Springs, NY, USA)	$32,000
40	Jared Mahoney (Boston, MA, USA)	$32,000
41	Ace Smith	$24,000
42	Peter Jetten (Toronto, ON, Canada)	$24,000
43	Jon Friedberg (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$24,000
44	Jose Cuenca	$24,000
45	Hevad "Rainbow" Khan (Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)	$24,000
46	Daniel Grolemund (Warren, PA, USA)	$24,000
47	Richard Furay	$24,000
48	Jim McCrink (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$24,000
49	Chris Crawford (Kenneaw, GA, USA)	$24,000
50	Christian Taepper	$24,000
51	Rory Rees-Brennan	$16,000
52	Mike Gorodinsky	$16,000
53	Diego Perez (Valencia, Spain)	$16,000
54	David McNew	$16,000
55	Alex Michaels	$16,000
56	Jeffrey Nueman (Glen Elg, MD, USA)	$16,000
57	Jameson Painter	$16,000
58	Per Ravn (Denmark)	$16,000
59	Mauro Stivoli (Italy)	$16,000
60	John Dibella (Cave Creek, AZ, USA)	$16,000
61	Gerald Lauderman (Dunwoody, GA, USA)	$16,000
62	Evan Roberts	$16,000
63	Adam Green (Reston, VA, USA)	$16,000
64	Ted Lawson (Plantation, FL, USA)	$16,000
65	Duy Le (Davis, CA, USA)	$16,000
66	Eugenio Carmoneto	$16,000
67	Kevin McColgan (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$16,000
68	Johan Berquist	$16,000
69	Louis Cohen	$16,000
70	Duncan Bell AKA "pumper" (Vancouver, BC, Canada)	$16,000
71	James Ferguson	$16,000
72	Hugo Spangenberg	$16,000
73	Markus Ross	$16,000
74	Sean Gardiner	$16,000
75	Peter Busch	$16,000
76	Hunter Frey	$16,000
77	Cero Zuccarello (Madison, WI, USA)	$16,000
78	Marcel Kleczka	$16,000
79	Chris Pearsall	$16,000
80	Michal Melin (Sweden)	$16,000
81	Samuel Chartier (Montreal, QC, Canada)	$16,000
82	Hans Ari Varsi	$16,000
83	Dennis Petronack (USA)	$16,000
84	Guy Tomaselli	$16,000
85	Rosamelia Ferreria	$16,000
86	David Lacoste (France)	$16,000
87	Kevin Schaffel (Weston, FL, USA)	$16,000
88	Hakon Bentsen	$16,000
89	Clayton Maguire (USA)	$16,000
90	Stuart Taylor (UK)	$16,000
91	Brian Lindsay	$16,000
92	Hans Winzeler (Miami, FL, USA)	$16,000
93	Danny Shiff (Aventura, FL, USA)	$16,000
94	Ross Romash (Aventura, FL, USA)	$16,000
95	William Pilossoph AKA "Pittsburgh Billy" (Presto, PA, USA)	$16,000
96	Julian Thew AKA "yoyo" (Nottingham, UK)	$16,000
97	Irina Liepina (Birmingham, UK)	$16,000
98	Andre Akkari (Sao Paolo, Brazil)	$16,000
99	Jim Pechac (Phoenix, AZ, USA)	$16,000
100	John Bird (Dade City, FL, USA)	$16,000
101	Tyler Dickinson	$16,000
102	Johan Til	$16,000
103	Eric Liu (Rockville, MD, USA)	$16,000
104	Brett Levitzke	$16,000
105	Davide Sciabbarrasi AKA "Sciabbagoal" (Roma, Italy)	$16,000
106	Josh Ewing (S.Lake Tahoe, CA, USA)	$16,000
107	John Buchanan (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$16,000
108	Jeremy Harkin AKA "Worm" (Vancouver, WA, USA)	$16,000
109	Jacob Petersen (Baton Rouge, LA, USA)	$16,000
110	Lee Markholt (Eatonville, WA, USA)	$16,000
111	Matt Zoorob (Colorado Springs, CO, USA)	$16,000
112	Zack Stewart (Santa Monica, CA, USA)	$16,000
113	Michael Meredith (Westfleid, NJ, USA)	$16,000
114	Anthony Cousineau (Daytona Beach, FL, USA)	$16,000
115	Gasperino Loicano	$16,000
116	Kevin Bryniczka	$16,000
117	Dmitriy Kirin (PA)	$16,000
118	Jean-Phillipe Rohr	$16,000
119	Steve Gross (Marlboro, NJ, USA)	$16,000
120	Eric Koskas (Marseille, France)	$16,000

Tournament Report

Team PokerStars Pro ElkY wins the 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Team Pokerstars Pro Bertrand'ElkY' Grospellier has won the 5th PokerStars Caribbean Adventure- and a record first prize of $2 million - after besting a field of 1,136 players in the biggest televised poker tournament outside of the World Series of Poker.
The 26-year-old Frenchman said:'The entire trip has been one thrilling experience after another - and now I'm returning home as the 2008 PCA Champion. This was definitely one of the hardest tournaments I've ever played. It was a very tough field with a lot of online American qualifiers who played really well. But I really wanted this title and I would have been very disappointed not to win.'
Hafiz Khan, 33, from northern California took second place in the PCA for just over $1 million, and third place went to Kris Kuykendall, 25, from Cincinnati, for $800k. Top tournament professional David Pham, USA, was fourth ($600k).
ElkY's best friend Jacques Zaicik - who came 12th in the same tournament - said:'ElkY and I have been joking since the first day that he was just lending all his chips to the other players so they could play a bit, but they would have to give them back by the end of the week. And that's what happened.'
A total of 650 players won their PCA seats - and a holiday at the Atlantis Resort and Hotel in the Bahamas - online with PokerStars, including all seven of ElkY's final table opponents.
After a good start at the tournament, ElkY - who joined Team PokerStars two years ago - had a difficult Day 3 and on Day 4 went down to 400,000 chips but he managed to double up and began the final table in second position with just over 3 million. The key moment came when ElkY knocked out renowned professional Pham, one of five players he personally bust out of the tournament.
The deciding hand came when ElkY successfully called the bluff of Hafiz Khan with his pair of eights. That was enough to beat 9/3 offsuit and secure the first prize of $2m for the Frenchman.
As an official stop on the PokerStars European Poker Tour, the 2008 PCA featured some of the best known and celebrated poker players in the world, including 20 Team PokerStars Pros such as WSOP Champions Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, and Joe Hachem, plus multiple WPT champion Daniel Negreanu.
"This year's PCA is an exciting addition to the EPT, attracting the widest field of European and international contenders for the biggest prize pool on the tour," said Lee Jones, Executive Host of the EPT.'There is no better way to kick off the 2008 EPT season.'
TV coverage of the 2008 PCA final table will air in the US in Spring 2008.
The next EPT is in Dortmund, Germany (January 29 - February 2, 2008). Satellites for Dortmund as well as EPT Warsaw, Copenhagen and the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo are running now on PokerStars.