Bulgarian Pro Wins PCA Bahamas

Surviving five tough days of poker in the Bahamas Dimitar Danchev, a 26-year-old Bulgarian poker pro, has bested a field of 986 intenational players to take down the tenth anniversary edition of Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure along with the first prize of $1,859,000. This is a landmark prize for the Bulgarian poker pro and represents the best tournament result to date. It took his career winnings to over $2.8 million; his previous top win was Euro 600,000 in a European Poker Tour tourney. Danchev achieved to start final table action, that included Jerry Wong, Jonathan Roy, Owen Crowe, Andrew Shatilov, Yann Dion and Joao Nogueira, as the second-lowest chip count. It was a particularly profitable adventure for the Nogueira, who won $165,000 for an eighth placing, but spent only $1.10 to qualify in a satellite tournament instead of having to buy-in for $10,300! Through dint of patience and the experience and skill to know when to play aggressively and when to await opportunities, Danchev worked his way up through the chip counts until only Joel Micka stood in his way at the heads up in which Micka put up a resistance but was soon overwhelmed taking home an impressive consolatory second prize of $1,190,000.