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PCA $25K HR – Muehloecker and Durnegger lead final 12

After 20 levels of play yesterday at the $25k High Roller event in the prestigious PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), the final 12 have emerged at the Atlantis Resort and Casino situated on Paradise Island, Bahamas.

Leading the pack of 12 are two Austrians sitting with nearly the same stack. Thomas Muehloecker is the chip leader with 1,520,000 chips. Trailing just behind him is Markus Durnegger with 1,385,000. Sam Greenwood, one of the three Greenwood brothers in the PCA and the winner of PCA $100k Super High Roller rounds up top 3 with a stack of 880,000. Greenwood even cashed in PSPC and the Main Event. Only top 23 places will be paid in the event.

The 12 players to play Day 2 of the $25k HR have all locked at least $75,080 as their earnings in the event as 12^th place cash prize, but all will be eyeing for the 1^st place cash prize of $895,110 (~INR 7.01 Crores).

Coming back to the chip leader, Muehloecker is quite a popular player in the circuit. Muehloecker has earned upwards of $6.7 million and ranks 1^st in Austria’s All Time Money List. One of his recent victories was when he shipped the Bellagio Cup XIV $10,400 NLHE event for $345,790 in July last year. Though, his best live score of $1,277,346 came at the 2017 WSOPE Rozadov HR One for One Drop, finishing 4^th.

Other notables to make it to Final 12 include Nick Petrangelo, 2017 WSOPE €10k HR winner Dominik Nitsche and Sean Winter. England’s Lucas Reeves was the leader after Day 1 of the $25k HR, but unfortunately got busted at 22^nd place, just making the money  for $44,660. Spain’s Jesus Cortes got busted at 15^th for $59,680. Cortes has had an incredible run in the PCA so far as he finished 3^rd in the $100k SHR and 2^nd in $25k Single-Day HR and earned over $1 million total.

Play will resume today at 12.30 pm local time and the final day of the $25k HR will be the final day of the PCA series too, with other ongoing events also coming to an end today.

Top 10 Chip Counts –

1. Thomas Muehloecker – 1,420,000
2. Markus Durnegger – 1,385,000
3. Sam Greenwood – 880,000
4. Martin Zamani – 780,000
5. Kelvin Kerber – 755,000
6. Gianluca Speranza – 645,000
7. Nick Petrangelo – 530,000
8. Dominik Nitsche – 475,000
9. Sean Winter – 390,000
10. Tom-Aksel Bedell – 390,000

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