Generally speaking, as a tournament buy-in increases in size, so does the skill level of the field. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that there was a very small field for the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller NL Hold’em event. With only 30 people participating, it was guaranteed that some of the best players in the world were going to be fighting for the $1.25 million first place prize.

There was an optional rebuy in this event, and only two people took it: Jonathan Duhamel and Bill Perkins. Day two saw Issac Haxton start the day as chip leader, but he was unable to make it to Day 3 alive. Do you think the Internet phenom went to his room to make a PokerStars install once he was done for the day?

Galen Hall was the chip leader going into Day 3 with just 7 people remaining. Hall is famous for winning the PCA Main Event in 2011 after beating tournament pro Chris Oliver. He took home $2.3 million for his efforts.

PokerStars had a myriad of pros at the final table: Humberto Brenes, Danial Negreanu, Duhamel, and Viktor Blom. You might better know Blom as Isildur1 on PokerStars, a player famous for being involved in some of the largest pots in online casino USA history. Even though the other three players at the Day 3 final table weren’t PokerStars pros, they were still big poker sharks: Dan Shak, Mike McDonald, and Scott Seiver.

Only five spots made the money in this event, however, and the three to miss a payday were Seiver, McDonald, and Brenes. While they made the money, both Negreanu and Duhamel had to settle for 5th and 4th place respectively. This meant that Shak, Blom, and Hall saw 3-handed play.

A cooler caused the next bust: Hall got dealt 99, but Blom was able to hold with AA. This hand meant that Blom had plenty of chips going into heads-up versus Shak. Shak wasn’t able to mount a comeback, and he busted in 2nd place for a healthy $846,700. Congratulations to Blom for winning his first ever major live tournament for $1.25 million!

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