PocketFives.com member Harrison gibler123Gimbel (pictured at right) became the youngest champion ever of the PokerStarsCaribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event at the tender age of 19. Gimbel pocketed $2.2 million for the win and outlasted fellow online poker player Tyler dabears87 Reiman heads-up. Monday marked the finale of the $10,000 buy-in tournament, which kicked off last Tuesday from the Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Let’s recap the action from the final table.

After momentarily losing the chip lead to Gimbel, Ryan g0lfaD’Angelo (pictured at left) sent Thomas Koral packing in the first elimination of the eight-handed PCA Main Event final table. Koral was committed pre-flop with queens and found himself up against D’Angelo’s wired pair of aces. The better hand held and Koral earned $201,300 for his eighth place effort. D’Angelo once again became the chip leader in the Bahamas as a result. He’s one of only three players ever to take down multiple World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) tournaments in the same year.
Zachary Goldberg pushed pre-flop with pocket tens and received a call from Aage Ravn, who held A-Q. Gentlemen, start your engines! The flop came 8-J-K, giving Ravn a straight draw to go along with his overcards, and an ace promptly hit on the turn to end Goldberg’s 2010 PCA Main Event run. The youngster picked up $300,000 for his seventh place effort.

Ravn hit the exits shortly thereafter. The table’s only non-American player came out on the short end of a three-way all-in holding A-Q of clubs. He was up against Gimbel’s pocket jacks and Ben Zamani‘s pocket eights, with Gimbel having both players covered and looking for a double knockout. However, the flop came eight-high, giving Zamani a set, which held to send Ravn home. Ravn, a native of Norway, earned $450,000 for his sixth place finish in the Bahamas.

D’Angelo hit the rail in fifth place after pushing pre-flop with pocket jacks. Reiman made the call with A-K, setting up another race. The flop of 4-9-3 kept D’Angelo in the lead and a five on the turn left Reiman drawing to an ace, king, or deuce on the river. Sure enough, a king hit, ending D’Angelo’s wildly successful 2010 PCA Main Event run. D’Angelo, who finished third in a $2,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament during the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) for $326,000, added another $700,000 to his net worth on Monday.

In Zamani’s final hand, he led out for 400,000 and Gimbel pushed over the top. Zamani called for his final 5.7 million with A-10 and Gimbel turned over pocket eights. Once again, the wired pair of eights found a set on the flop and Zamani missed a gutshot straight draw on the river to finish in fourth place. He earned $1 million for his performance in the record-setting 1,529-player tournament and made his hometown of Boca Raton, Florida proud.

2009 WSOP Europe Main Event winner Barry Shulman, the only member of the PCA Main Event final table over the age of 26, took third place after shoving with Q-10 and running into Gimbel’s A-9 in the big blind. Shulman, the owner of CardPlayer Magazine, is fresh off an £801,000 payday in the WSOP Europe Main Event in September. By virtue of his third place showing cross-“Pond” in the Bahamas, he added another $1.35 million to his bank account. He triumphantly donned a CardPlayer logo throughout the festivities, just as his son, Jeff Shulman, did during the 2009 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas.

Entering heads-up play in Atlantis, Reiman (pictured at right) had 28 million chips to Gimbel’s 17 million, a lead of about 3:2. After 25 minutes, the chip stacks were reversed. In a key hand, Reiman flopped an eight-high straight, but with a flush possibility looming on the river, Gimbel put in a check-raise to cause Reiman to fold. After a 4-5-6 flop with two hearts, Gimbel check-called a bet of 630,000 to an offsuit ten on the turn. Gimbel check-called a bet of 1.8 million from Reiman to bring the seven of hearts on the river. Gimbel check-raised all-in and Reiman folded 7-8 face up.

Gimbel held a 3:1 chip lead after that hand and finished off Reiman when the eventual runner-up pushed pre-flop with pocket eights. Gimbel called with tens and spiked a set on the flop. The turn was an eight, making the situation slightly more dramatic, but the river bricked for Reiman, who took home a $1.75 million consolation prize.

Here were the final results from the 2010 PCA Main Event:

1. Harrison gibler123Gimbel – $2,200,000
2. Tyler dabears87Reiman – $1,750,000
3. Barry Shulman – $1,350,000
4. Benjamin Zamani – $1,000,000
5. Ryan g0lfaD'Angelo – $700,000
6. Aage Ravn – $450,000
7. Zachary Goldberg – $300,000
8. Thomas Koral – $201,300

The PCA continues this week with a $25,000 buy-in High Roller event plus action from the World Cup of Poker. Visit PokerStars for more information.