<img src="http://www.tlpoker.com.br/staff/Raidern/gimbel.jpg" align="right" style="margin:5px; border:1px solid black;">In a final table occupied mostly by American poker players - there were 7 U.S. citizens and one Norwegian - the final result could not be different. Harrison Gimbel, a 19-year old American, overcame his seven opponents and became the youngest champion in the history of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. PCA is one of the most important tournaments in the world, to win the tournament can make you known all over the poker world. This is the very same tournament that introduced one of Liquid Poker's finest players, Ryan Daut, to the big stages of the game.
Among the eight finalists we could spot Barry Schulman, CardPlayer Magazine's owner and winner of the WSOP Europe Main Event. Another tough opponent present was Tyler Reiman, a player who has a long list of solid results in online tournaments. The other finalists were Ryan D'Angelo, Thomas Koral, Benjamin Zamani, Zachary Goldberg and Aage Ravn.
We all know luck is an important aspect of poker, especially in long tournaments like the PCA. We can say luck definitely wasn't missing in the champion's game. Early in the tournament, for example, he sucked out on Barry Greenstein by defeating his pair of Aces with just 68 off. At the beginning of the final day, Gimbel must have felt that "this" was his day, as he got involved in a coin-flip pre-flop and got victorious.
He had Ace-King and his opponent, the chip leader at the time, held a pair of Jacks. D'Angelo raised and Gimbel reraised to 650,000. D'Angelo 4bet to 1.3 million and Gimbel moved all-in, then D'Angelo made the call. Right away the flop favored Gimbel, as it came 3QA. Turn and river completed the task: Ace and King.
Certainly a lot more important hands were played, and Harrison Gimbel navigated his way to the most important duel in the tournament. His opponent was Tyler Reiman, who entered<A name="cutnews"></A> the heads-up holding the chip lead, with the chip counts showing 28,000,000 vs 17,000,000.
A few hands into the heads-up, a key hand was played. Reiman had flopped the nuts with an 8-high straight. But the board played against him, as it made a flush possible on the final street. Gimbel represented the flush by check-raising on the river, which made his opponent fold. Later, Gimbel admitted to hold only A4, which would give him just a pair of fours. This hand reversed the chip stacks, leaving Gimbel with 28 million chips, against 17 millions of Reiman.
In the final hand, Reiman raised to 620,000 and Gimbel 3bet to 1.8 million. Reiman announced the all-in and Gimbel called. Reiman and Gimbel turned up Eights and Tens respectively. The flop pretty much sealed the result with T62. Reiman could only hope for a miracle, which didn't happen. An eight on the turn gave him something to hope for, but the Jack on the river meant Harrison Gimbel was the champion. Gimbel became the youngest winner in the history of the tournament and took home an incredible $2,200,000 . Tyler Reiman finished as the runner-up, but pocketed an awesome prize as well, good for $1,700,000.
"This is what I've dreamt of. I've always wanted to win a big major tournamet and fortunately I won one of my first ones," said Gimbel. "I was never in doubt. I felt my opponents were really good, but I had a lot of confidence in myself going into today and it really showed."
Payouts and standings: 1. Harrison Gimbel — $2,200,000
2. Tyler Reiman — $1,750,000
3. Barry Shulman — $1,350,000
4. Benjamin Zamani — $1,000,000
5. Ryan D’Angelo — $700,000
6. Aage Ravn — $450,000
7. Zachary Goldberg — $300,000
8. Tom Koral — $201,300 |
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