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Faraz Jaka, Xuan Liu Headline 2012 PCA Final Table

by Wicked Chops Entity on 1.12.2012 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

Xuan Liu is still looking good at the 2012 PCA, as she's stacked third overall going into final table play.

The final table is set at the 2012 PCA Main Event.

Leading the way is the man who has dominated the tournament since Day 2, Faraz Jaka. The former WPT Player of the Year is stacked at 6,470,000. He’s closely followed by Kyle Julius with 6,450,000.

In third overall and continuing a solid 12-month run is Xuan Liu, a woman, with 6,355,000. Liu finished third for over $500,000 at last year’s EPT San Remo.

Final table play begins at 1pm ET on Friday with the live stream launching at 1:40pm.

Get full chip counts here.

Tagged as: 2012 PCA, Faraz Jaka, Poker News, Xuan Liu

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Sergio Garcia Does Not Win 2012 PCA Main Event

by Wicked Chops Entity on 1.11.2012 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

Garcia is the one on the left.

Sergio Garcia‘s inspired run at the 2012 PCA Main Event came to an end on Wednesday.

The Spanish golfer–who was among the chip leaders at various stages of the tournament–was eliminated in 51st place for $35,000–or approximately .001% of what he’s earned during his professional golf career.

This makes Garcia’s third ever career poker tournament cash, giving him three more than Rocco Mediate (at the WSOP here) or Paul Pierce (at the WSOP here).

While Garcia was KO’d, 24 still remain. Faraz Jaka reclaimed the chip lead with 4,114,000. He’s followed by Alex Fitzgerald with 2,709,000.

Xuan Liu, a woman, is also still alive with 1,082,000.

Get a full recap of the day here.

Tagged as: 2012 PCA, Faraz Jaka, Poker News, Sergio Garcia

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The Faraz Jaka Conundrum

by Wicked Chops Entity on 6.2.2010 in Random | 2 comments

The Faraz Jaka Conundrum

The ever-elusive WPT Player of the Year Faraz Jaka

As we catalogue as many player images as we possibly can, The Entities realized that we had no pics of WPT Player of the Year Faraz Jaka.

So we gave our photog a one-word description of Jaka and sent him loose to find Jaka. He came back with four photos of Jaka candidates, none of which were Jaka. So we sent him out again. He eventually took the ever-elusive Jaka pic (above) but below are the rest of the Jaka pics he took.

(In our photographer’s defense, he has heard of many of the players he took photos of in the Faraz Jaka Conundrum gallery below…but he just didn’t know the faces…which is why, for example, Vivek Rajkumar made it in but Victor Ramdin did not…)

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Faraz Jaka Really Wants to Be WPT POY

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.22.2010 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

Watch Can David Williams take the WPT? on RawVegas.tv

With 18 remaining, Faraz Jaka reclaimed the chip lead at the WPT Championship.

Jaka, who currently holds the lead for WPT Player of the Year, has expressed behind-the-scenes how much he’d like to earn the honors, and is playing like it too. That was a really poorly constructed sentence.

While Jaka holds the chip lead with 3,117,000, he doesn’t necessarily have the title locked up yet…right BJ? A bunch of big names/waist-lines still remain. David Benyamine is second overall with 2,350,000. David Williams (above discussing if he can take down the title) is third overall with 2,072,000.

Also remaining are old-schooler Billy Baxter (1,630,000), Phil Hellmuth (1,377,000), Shawn Buchanan (1,224,000), a looking-to-make-back-to-back-WPT-Championship-final-tables Scotty Nguyen (941,000), Eric Baldwin (880,000), JJ Liu, a woman (674,000), Johnny “Cliff Josephy” Bax (458,000), Jason Lester/Al Krux (421,000), Josh Arieh (303,000), and Matt Stout (274,000).

Heather Sue Mercer was eliminated in 21st.

Get full chip counts here.

Tagged as: David Williams, Faraz Jaka, World Poker Tour, WPT Championship

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Faraz Jaka Leads Day 2 of WPT Championship

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.20.2010 in Poker Tournaments | 2 comments

David Williams and his new look (not pictured) is among the WPT Championship Day 2 chip leaders.

The 2010 WPT Championship ended up with a total field of 195, down pretty significantly from the 338 who entered last year. This is also the fewest entrants since Season 1, which brought in 111.

First place will pay out $1,530,537, down from its peak in 2007 when Carlos Mortensen won $3,970,415.

All of that aside, current WPT POY leader Faraz Jaka is looking to shore up that title. He ended Day 2 as chip leader, stacked at 597,100. He’s trailed by Shawn Buchanan (596,600) and Justin Bonomo (503,600).

Other notable big stacks include Brandon Cantu (489,000), David Williams (363,300), Yevgeniy Timoshenko (279,400), and the aforementioned Carlos Mortensen (261,100).

Only 98 remain. Follow the action starting at 3pm ET here.

In semi-related news, at post-time 17 remain at the EPT San Remo. Allan Bække leads with 3,483,000. Liv Boeree remains with 1,337,000. Follow here.

Tagged as: Faraz Jaka, Poker News, World Poker Tour, WPT Championship

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