What’s better than spending a week in paradise, palm trees swaying in the breeze, sipping frozen Bahamian cocktails by night and playing in a massive $8,000 buy-in, televised poker tournament by day?
How about winning the whole thing?
Ryan Daut did just that and in the process, pocketed over $1.5 million at the 4th annual Poker Stars Caribbean Poker Adventure, a World Poker Tour event held annually at the beautiful Atlantis Resort & Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
Daut bested a total field of 937 players in route to victory, the largest the tournament has ever seen. When the final table began, Isaac Haxton, a 21-year-old cash game player from Boston, held close to half of the chips in play. His $9,216,000 dwarfed the stack of his closest competitor’s, Jonathan Little, who had $2,366,000.
If this final table is indicative of poker’s future in terms of player demographics, then poker is no doubt getting younger. 28, 21, 22, 25, 22, and 22: the ages of the six contestants at the TV table.
Other final table participants were Jon “Croixdawg” Ford, Frank Rusnak, and perhaps most notably, Robert Mizrachi, successful tournament pro and brother of Card Player’s 2006 Player of the Year, Michael Mizrachi.
| PokerStars' Caribbean Poker Adventure | |
| Casino: | Atlantis Resort & Casino |
| Location: | Paradise Island |
| Buy-in: | $7,800 |
| Entry Fee: | $200 |
| # of Players: | 937 |
| Prize Pool: | $7,063,842 |
| Final Table date: | Jan 10, 2007 |
| Results | ||
| 1 | Ryan Daut |
$1,535,255 |
| 2 | Isaac Haxton |
$861,789 |
| 3 | Robert Ford |
$550,980 |
| 4 | Robert Mizrachi |
$409,703 |
| 5 | Jonathan Little |
$317,873 |
| 6 | Frank Rusnak |
$247,234 |
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