2015 PCA Side Events: Jonathan Duhamel, Paul Volpe and Justin Bonomo Win Titles

Brett Collson Chief Editor

Jan 15, 2015 3 min read

While the PokerNews Live Reporting team was working hard to bring you coverage of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller, Main Event and High Roller, there was plenty of side action taking place at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas this month. A wide variety of events were held inside the enormous convention center, and several well-known pros took advantage by scooping big scores.

Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel took down one of the last events on the schedule, winning Event #31: $5,300 NLHE 8-Handed Turbo for $116,738 after a heads-up deal with Nick Maimone. A raucous rail turned up for this one (the final table was running as the PokerStars party ended) as supporters rallied behind Mustapha Kanit, Matt Waxman and Mike Watson, among others.

I just won the 5k turbo :-) #PCA2015 @PokerStars_PCA
— Jonathan Duhamel (@JonathanDuhamel)

Earlier in the week, Paul Volpe won his third career side event on the European Poker Tour by winning Event #14, a #2,200 no-limit hold'em event. The tournament attracted a field of 217 and Volpe collected $89,140 after beating Brazil's Joao Henrique Sousa heads-up. Volpe also took down the €10,000 no-limit hold'em turbo and €2,000 no-limit hold'em turbo at the EPT9 Grand Final.

Justin Bonomo also landed in the winner's circle, besting a small-but-stacked field of 27 in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event. Here's a look at some of the notable results from the 2015 PCA:

Event #4: No-Limit Hold'em Turbo

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$600	144	$75,312

2015 PCA Side Events: Jonathan Duhamel, Paul Volpe and Justin Bonomo Win Titles 101 — Dean Amar

Place	Player	Prize
1	Dean Amar	$18,072
2	Danny Stiegler	$12,320
3	Scott Wellenbach	$8,140
4	David Augustine	$6,700
5	Bryan Ponce Zerna	$5,380
6	Mary Pudmoreff	$4,220
7	Chaves Horacio	$3,160
8	Lukas Chiciak	$2,340
9	Luciano Chiazzese	$1,800

Event #9: No-Limit Hold'em Turbo

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$5,000	104	504,400

2015 PCA Side Events: Jonathan Duhamel, Paul Volpe and Justin Bonomo Win Titles 102 — Nick Petrangelo

Place	Player	Prize
1	Nick Petrangelo	$113,853*
2	Jonathan Little	$105,247*
3	Sergi Reixach Lloveras	$58,520
4	Igor Kurganov	$47,420
5	Andrew Chen	$38,080
6	Gurgen Arsenyan	$29,760
7	Erik Seidel	$23,460
8	Maxim Panyak	$17,900
9	David Bell	$13,120

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Event #10: No-Limit Hold'em Double Bubble

2015 PCA Side Events: Jonathan Duhamel, Paul Volpe and Justin Bonomo Win Titles 103 — Nicole Cervenka

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$2,200	49	95,060

Place	Player	Prize
1	Nicole Cervenka	$22,220
2	Atanas Kavrakov	$14,220
3	Mario Quintanilha Masciotro	$10,220
4	Agostinho Barreiro	$2,200
5	Victor Der Megreditchian	$2,200
6	David Peters	$2,200
7	Haroldo De Sousa Queiroz	$2,200
8	Richart Ruddie	$2,200
9	Vicente Delgado	$2,200

Event #12: Pot-Limit Omaha Turbo

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$5,000	53	$257,050

Place	Player	Prize
1	Benoit Galland	$80,970
2	Leif Force	$58,480
3	Ioannis Kontonatsios	$37,280
4	Adam Coviensky	$28,280
5	John Racener	$21,840
6	David Dayan	$16,700
7	Bill Perkins	$13,500

Event #13: No-Limit Hold'em Turbo Bounty

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$2,200	181	$351,140

Place	Player	Prize
1	Dzmitry Urbanovich	$37,640
2	Michael Mac Hugh	$25,440
3	Javier Hormazabal	$17,500
4	Aram Piruzyan	$14,280
5	Zachary Korik	$11,380
6	Afranio Miranda	$8,740
7	Asaf Levi	$6,360
8	Andrew Stott	$4,620
9	Sergio Aido	$3,820

Event #14: No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$2,000	217	$420,980

2015 PCA Side Events: Jonathan Duhamel, Paul Volpe and Justin Bonomo Win Titles 104 — Paul Volpe

Place	Player	Prize
1	Paul Volpe	$89,140
2	Joao Henrique Sousa	$59,940
3	Jacques Der Megreditchian	$42,260
4	Ramin Hajiyev	$34,260
5	Raena Janes	$27,120
6	Anibal Tacla	$20,580
7	Tom-Aksel Bedell	$15,020
8	Feizal Satchu	$10,980

Event #15: Pot-Limit Omaha

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$5,000	27	$135,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Justin Bonomo	$48,450
2	Tobias Hausen	$33,400
3	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	$21,280
4	Jason Koon	$15,380
5	Jeff Rossiter	$12,440

Event #16: No-Limit Hold'em Turbo 8-Handed

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$5,000	91	$441,350

2015 PCA Side Events: Jonathan Duhamel, Paul Volpe and Justin Bonomo Win Titles 105 — Aleksandr Denisov

Place	Player	Prize
1	Aleksandr Denisov	$117,250
2	Antonio Buonanno	$81,420
3	Marc Etienne McLaughlin	$53,840
4	Galen Hall	$42,140
5	Allon Allison	$33,980
6	Ivan Soshnikov	$26,480
7	Sorel Mizzi	$20,960
8	Davidi Kitai	$16,320
9	Paul Newey	$12,360

Event #31: No-Limit Hold'em Turbo 8-Handed

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$5,000	109	$528,650

Place	Player	Prize
1	Jonathan Duhamel	$116,738*
2	Nick Maimone	$112,972*
3	Giuseppe Pantaleo	$61,320
4	Mike Watson	$49,700
5	Matt Waxman	$39,920
6	Mustapha Kanit	$31,200
7	Andre Dos Santos	$24,580
8	Emrah Cakmak	$18,760