On the first PokerNews Podcast of 2014, the crew previews the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, plays a game of Know Your Circuit Stop, and discusses the color of the year - radiant orchid.
Scott Seiver just doubled again, and the defending champion has moved back to 230,000 in chips. He was all in with the against the for Mike "Timex" McDonald.
The board ran out in Seiver's favor when it came , and he doubled up. McDonald was left with 330,000.
Jason Koon open-shipped all in for his last 121,000 and Justin Bonomo called from the next seat over. The rest of the table folded their hands and the cards were revealed to find the two racing for Koon's tournament life.
Koon:
Bonomo:
Koon jumped out into a huge lead with two pair after seeing the flop. Fourth street was the , putting three clubs on the board and giving Bonomo outs to make a flush. Unfortunately for Koon, the rolled off on the river and Bonomo's flush was ultimately the best hand. Koon made for the rail and Bonomo collected the pot. He's now sitting on about 570,000 in chips.
Justin Bonomo was all in for 309,000 on the board against opponent Ole Schemion. After a bit of tanking, Schemion made the call with the . Bonomo tabled the for bottom set, and that meant Schemion was drawing dead.
The river completed the board with the , and Schemion sent over the chips to Bonomo. He was left with around 425,000 while Bonomo moved to nearly 1 million.
Over on the feature table, Jason Mercier open-shoved for 138,000 on the button. Philipp Gruissem re-shoved out of the small blind, and Bryn Kenney surrendered his big blind.
Mercier:
Gruissem:
Gruissem won the race as the flop, turn, and river came , and Mercier hit the rail.
On the outer tables, Steve O'Dwyer was also eliminated from the tournament.
We arrived at the table in time to find Lawrence Greenberg all in and at risk for his last 133,000 against start-of-day chip leader Martin Finger. Greenberg held and was dominating Finger's . Finger paired up on the flop and Greenberg was suddenly behind and in need of help to stay alive.
The on fourth street changed nothing and Greenberg was searching for a jack on the river. He found exactly that with the and was able to secure one more double up today. He's now sitting on about 280,000 while Finger has fallen to around 820,000.