The Canadian Wins $3 Milllion in the Bahamas
The final eight players at the 2009 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure returned to the Imperial Ballroom at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas to play for the 10th largest poker tournament top prize in history today. The massive field of 1,347 players made this event the largest ever hosted outside of the United States, and it also created a top prize worth $3 million. The final eight had accomplished much to make it this far, and even though they were each guaranteed to walk away with at least $214,000 -- the stakes and tension couldn't be higher.
The early going was rough on the Americans and poker professionals at the final table. Kevin Saul (eighth), Dan Heimiller (seventh), Dustin Dirksen (sixth), Pieter Tielen (fifth), and Team PokerStars Pro Alexandre Gomes (fourth) fell during the first three hours, leaving a big oppurtunity for a new face to emerge in the world of poker, and Benny Spindler held almost twice the amount of both his opponents combined when three-handed play began.
The three-handed battle proved to be the major stretch at the final table, lasting five hours. The final three players continued trading chips as players doubled up and action was slow otherwise. Spindler eventually fell in third place and the Canadian Poorya Nazari took an almost two-to-one lead into the heads-up match against the American Anthony Gregg. In the end it was Nazari who won the $3 million, after a heads-up battle that lasted only four hands.
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