Galen Hall Poker Winnings

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Just look at the names who are winning big, time and again. I don’t think so. This €25,000 high roller event in Madrid, the new home for the EPT Grand Final celebrations, is a case in point. Chip leader going in to the final table is Galen Hall. Remember that name? The first tournament to reach a million dollar prize pool was the 1983 WSOP Main Event. The WSOP Main Event of 2004 had the first prize pool of above $10,000,000. The largest non Hold'em Tournament has been the 2008 WSOP $50K HORSE with a prize pool of $7,104,000 and the first prize of $1,989,120 going to Scotty Nguyen.

• A 24-year-old San Francisco native Galen Hall has won the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Hall had few cashouts on the live poker circuit prior to winning the big $2.3 million prize this weekend.
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• Galen Hall sits in seventh and will certainly be a player to watch. He snagged his first bracelet in 2018 in 888poker’s $888 Crazy Eights for $888,888. The New Yorker has $5.4 million in live tournament winnings.

The 2009 PCA saw a $25,000 High Roller event added to the schedule. A record 1,347 players came out to the beautiful Atlantis to attend the biggest festival of poker aside from the WSOP. The Main Event title once again went to Canada, as a Pokerstars qualifier, Poorya Nazari, who entered the event through a $33 qualifier, bested the huge field and came out on top, winning a cool $3 million. The High Roller saw poker’s elite fight for the title and the cash, and it was last year’s Main Event winner, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, who took down the tournament for $433,000, making the Bahamas his favorite poker location forever.

2010 – Harrison Gimbel (United States of America)

The incredible growth of the PCA continued in 2010 as the tournament broke the 1,500-player mark. This time around the festival lasted 10 days and resembled the WSOP more than any other series ever held. The series included a ladies event, a High Roller, and a host of other tournaments in assorted variations of the game of poker. Young American Harrison Gimbel won the Main Event, taking home $2.2 million, while William Reynolds won the High Roller for just over $500,000. Vanessa Rousso took the title of the best lady of the series in the ladies event.

2011 – Galen Hall (United States of America)

The 2011 PCA resembled the 2010 edition in all aspects. The Main Event shattered the record number of players by 40 and a $100,000 Super High Roller event was added to the series, giving poker’s elite a chance to compete in a very limited field for a huge amount of money. It was the young American Galen Hall who jumpstarted his poker career at the 2011 Main Event by winning the title and $2.3 million, defeating 1,560 players. Pokerstars pro Eugene Katchalov won the Super High Roller for $1.5 million, with William Molson grabbing the $25,000 High Roller for just over a million.

2012 – John Dibella (United States of America)

The Main Event field in 2012 was cut by a third and the event saw only 1,072, to the disappointment of organizers. The festival was still grand, with millions of dollars awarded, and this time it was American John Dibella who took the Main Event title home, winning $1.7 million dollars. The Swedish phenom Viktor “Isildur1” Blom won the Super High Roller, solidifying his name in the poker world, while Jonathan Duhamel cashed for a total of $1.2 million in events across the series, completing a great feat of his own.

2013 – Dimitar Danchev (Bulgaria)

The festival saw a new low in numbers in 2013 as the field dropped under 1,000 runners for the first time in years. The number of events also dropped to 41, but the High Roller action was spectacular. Bulgarian pro Dimitar Danchev won the Main Event and $1.8 million, but it was the American couple Vanessa Selbst and Scott Seiver who were in the headlines for winning the High Roller and Super High Roller, respectively. The series also featured the first ever tournament in an up and coming game, Open Face Chinese Poker.

2014 – Dominik Panka (Poland)

Last year’s PCA was an interesting one with the number of players in the Main Event once again growing to over 1,000 and big names winning big cash. The great stories of the series were Mike McDonald’s heads-up defeat to the eventual Main Event winner, Dominik Panka, Vanessa Selbst’s double third place finishes in the High Rollers, and Fabian Quoss winning the Super High Roller. The Main Event winner took home $1.4 million, while Quoss was awarded $1.6 million for his win in the $100k Super High Roller.

The 2015 Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure is now underway and we will be reporting live from the Bahamas, with daily news, timely tournament updates, and exclusive PokerTube interviews from Rikard and Laura, so sit back and enjoy the 2015 PCA.

He might have had to wait two more days for it than he liked, but in the end, there was no stopping Galen Hall in Event #62: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed. Hall, who held the chip lead after both Day 2 and Day 3 continued where he left off, never relinquishing his stronghold over the competition, and finished it off in clinical fashion.

Hall won his first career WSOP bracelet as well as the appropriate first place prize of $888,888, following in Alex Papazian's footsteps as the first winner of this special event. With the win, the American moved up to over $5 million in lifetime winnings. Hall was supported by his girlfriend as well as his mom and dad, who drove in this morning to watch their son play the final stretch of this four-day tournament.

Runner-up was Eduards Kudrjavcevs of Latvia, who received $476,888 for his accomplishment to break his own $1 million lifetime winnings mark. Third place went to Niels Herregodts ($355,888) of Belgium, who got married here in Las Vegas just five days ago.

Official Final Table Result

The tournament got paused on Tuesday night after the level cap for the day was reached. Three players returned for the showdown on Thursday, after Wednesday was scheduled off to accommodate for the Main Event. Hall admitted he would've rather played it out on Tuesday night.

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'Tuesday, you know there's just certain things after like a whole long day of playing, it's harder for people to switch things up. People are a little tired so I felt like I had a good beat of what was going on. And today, I had to scale it back for the first 30 minutes or so to sort of see. You know, a lot of players can get coaching, or they get rest; they change their style a little bit if there's time off. But luckily I ran hot so it didn't matter.'

Despite the inconvenience — at least in Hall's opinion — the game plan wasn't going to change.

'I thought both of the other players were a little on the tighter side and I had the chip lead. ICM was a little less than normal with small third to second pay jumps, but I thought it probably still mattered to them a reasonable amount, so I was hoping if one of them got short I could apply a lot of pressure to the other one and I thought I would get a lot of chips from that and I just generally came in planning to be aggressive.'

The aggressiveness paid off: Hall was able to collect more than his fair share of pots as well as extracting value with his good hands. While holding the big lead, two important coin flips fell Hall's way to win the coveted price: ace-king against the pocket fours of Herregodts, followed up by holding with pocket nines against Kudrjavcevs' jack-ten to win it two hours after the day started.

Final Day Action

Shortly after the clock struck 2 p.m., the three remaining players of the original 8,598 entries returned to decide who would win their first career bracelet as well as the gigantic $888,888 first-place prize that awaited the winner. Hall started the day as the chip leader and maintained his lead as the three played down to the winner in 55 hands.

Kudrjavcevs started the day as the short stack and didn't need long to put his chips to work. A few of his shoves got through but chipwise, the stacks remained stable in the first dozen hands.

It took until hand #178, the 40th hand of the day, before one of Kudrjavcevs' all-ins got called. After raising, Herregodts called the shove with pocket deuces but Kudrjavcevs got there with king-queen when a queen hit the turn.

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Kudrjavcevs' comeback was short-lived, as Hall was able to extract value from the Latvian in a sizable hand with king-queen. Kudrjavcevs called off a big river bet, mucked his hand, and was left with eight big blinds.

However, it would be Herregodts that would bow out first. Holding pocket fours, the Belgian raised on the button and four-bet shoved around 34 big blinds when Hall three-bet him in the big blind. Hall snap-called with ace-king and hit an ace on the flop to send Herregodts home in third ($355,888). Hall and Kudrjavcevs played a few more hands before going on break.

After the break and subsequent blind-up, Kudrjavcevs had exactly eleven big blinds left and shoved those with jack-ten. Hall snap-called with pocket nines and scored his first career bracelet after the board ran out eight-six-five-seven-king. Kudrjavcevs received $476,888 for his second-place finish that put him over $1 million in lifetime winnings.

With his mom, dad and girlfriend on the rail, Hall celebrated the victory as the new $888 Crazy Eights champion.

This concludes the PokerNews coverage of this event. Keep following along as the action at the 2018 World Series of Poker is heating up.

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