Sam Cohen and an opponent looked down at a flop of . Cohen had a bet of 6,600 in front of her when we arrived at the table and her opponent put out a raise to 15,000. Cohen took a moment before calling the raise.
The hit fourth street and Cohen checked. Her opponent tossed out 18,000 and Cohen wasted no time announcing an all in raise. Her opponent let go of his hand and Cohen raked in the pot. She's now sitting on about 110,000 in chips.
On the last hand of the level, action folded to Raymond Chen in the small blind and he raised to 11,300 effective. Daniel Negreanu called all in from the big blind immediately.
Chen:
Negreanu:
The board ran out , no help to Negreanu, ending his PCA Main Event.
Noah Boeken has built up a healthy stack of more than 120,000 — nearly three times the average at the moment — here on Day 2 of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event. No surprise to see the Dutchman do well at the start of the year after having just ended 2013 with a win in the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam where he topped a field of 298 for a €306,821 score.
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PokerStars Team Pros Vanessa Selbst and George Danzer took a flop together in a raised pot. The flop came down and Selbst led from the hijack for 2,400. George Danzer, from the next seat over, flatted to see fourth street.
The came on the turn and Selbst dropped out 3,700. Danzer reached into his stack and came out with a raise to 12,000. Selbst thought for about 30 seconds before moving out a call. The board paired with the on fifth street and Selbst tapped the table. Danzer wasted little time checking it back.
"Jack," said Selbst, tabling .
Danzer flicked his cards into the muck and Selbst dragged in the pot. She's now sitting at about 82,000 while Danzer has dropped to 40,000.