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Eugenio Mattar Leads The Final 24 Players
Welcome to Day 5 of PokerNews' coverage of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event.
The starting field of 816 entrants is down to just 24 players, each with hopes of outlasting the field and capturing this prestigious title, as well as collecting the hefty first-place prize of $1,491,580. On top of the chip counts by a solid margin is Eugenio Mattar with 2,673,000. Rounding out the top five is Emrak Cakmak (2,037,000), Chance Kornuth (2,026,000), Andreas Samuelsson (1,628,000) and Pratyush Buddiga (1,624,000).
Others still in the field include last years sixth-place Main Event finisher Shyam Srinivasan (1,310,000), Maurice Hawkins (962,000), Jim Collopy (799,000), Rami Boukai (769,000), Dylan Linde (709,000), Scott Baumstein (543,000), Tim Reilly (511,000), Mayu Roca (303,000), Felipe Ramos (282,000) and Noah Schwartz (238,000), to name a few.
The plan for the day is to play down to the official final table of eight players. The cards will be in the air at noon local time, roughly 35 minutes from now.
Keep it here at PokerNews throughout the day for live updates on all of the exciting action as the final table for one of the most prestigous tournaments on the poker docket becomes set!