Main Event
Dia 2 Concluído
Main Event
Dia 2 Concluído
After two Day 1 flights, the remaining players in the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event all sat down in the same room for Day 2, with over 500 players to start the day. Following five 90-minute levels, Walter Fisher emerged as the leader when he bagged 497,000 in chips. Fisher holds a slight lead over Hugh Drummond (456,800) and Juan Martin Pastor (446,000).
Fisher, an amateur player, said most of his poker consists of playing cash games in Los Angeles. He came to the PCA with a trio of recognizable names (Bill Perkins, Jeff Gross, and Sorel Mizzi), and said he had the good fortune to hit a few sets against fellow big stacks holding aces. Despite his excellent early position, Fisher is taking the long view.
"I'm trying to get rest and keep myself nice and calm because it's only Day 2 and there's so many days," Fisher said. "I've seen so many of my friends go through it with monster stacks and end up being massively upset because they punted away their chips."
As for Drummond, he won a monster pot late in the day when Sebastian Von Toperczer shoved over his 47,000 reraise for about 150,000 during Level 13 (1,000/2,000/300), the last of the night. Drummond snapped it off with , and his bullets held up against Von Toperczer's .
Surviving were 175 players to advance to Sunday's Day 3. Other notables to advance included Pratyush Buddiga (357,900), Jim Collopy (342,000), Daniel Negreanu (295,600), Liv Boeree (247,100), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (212,400), Ole Schemion (192,600), Olivier Busquet (190,700), Mike Leah (185,400), retired Brazilian footballer Ronaldo (146,300), former World Series of Poker Main Event champ Jonathan Duhamel (77,700), and Jason Mercier (49,000).
One player who failed to make it through was defending champion Dominik Panka. Last year, the Polish player defeated Mike McDonald heads up to capture the title and more than $1.4 million in prize money. Panka fell at some point during Level 10.
Faraz Jaka, Jacob Bazeley, Vanessa Selbst, pro golfer Sergio Garcia, David "Bakes" Baker, Jake Cody, Tony Gregg, Dan Kelly, 2003 Main Event champ Chris Moneymaker, Shaun Deeb, Randy "nanonoko" Lew, former PCA winner Harrison Gimbel, and 2014 WSOP Player of the Year George Danzer were also among those eliminated during the course of play.
Gregg had a big stack for much of the day, but found himself short during the last level of the night. Following a flop of , the man many refer to as "End Boss" was all in for about 22,000 with the against the held by German superstar Ole Schemion. Despite Gregg flopping a full house, Schemion caught the turn to take the lead and further improved to quads with the river to deliver a painful end to Gregg's tournament.
Play will resume at noon local time on Sunday for Day 3, and PokerNews will continue to provide live coverage. Meanwhile, check out the latest episode of Ivey Stories.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Walter Fisher | 497,000 | 62,000 |
Hugh Drummond | 456,800 | 76,800 |
Juan Martin Pastor | 446,000 | 31,000 |
Adam Reynolds | 378,500 | -11,500 |
Diego Ventura | 362,800 | 92,800 |
Jesse Rockowitz | 359,700 | 69,700 |
Pratyush Buddiga | 357,900 | 17,900 |
Jim Collopy | 342,000 | 8,000 |
Carlos Chadha | 322,800 | 12,800 |
Tim Reilly | 322,400 | 92,400 |
Tyler Cornell | 314,800 | 134,800 |
Christopher Lockhart | 306,900 | 11,900 |
Naoya Kihara
|
301,800 | 75,800 |
Daniel Negreanu
|
295,600 | 140,600 |
Mario Puccini | 294,400 | -85,600 |
Eugenio Mattar | 271,800 | 243,500 |
Felipe Carrico | 268,500 | 181,000 |
Uwe Ritter | 266,700 | 6,700 |
Lothar Meier | 266,100 | 169,300 |
Oleg Perepletchikov | 261,000 | 168,900 |
Carter Swidler | 258,400 | 8,400 |
Liv Boeree
|
247,100 | -22,900 |
Stefano Terziani | 246,900 | 86,900 |
Alex Klimashin | 246,900 | 111,900 |
Juan Etcheverry | 246,400 | 11,400 |
Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and Jake Cody took questions on switching from online to live poker this morning, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier just lost back-to-back pots near the end of the night. The first hand was lost to Jose Manuel Nadal, but it was the second that would hurt a bit more.
On the first, Mercier raised to 4,000 from the hijack seat and received a call from Nadal, who was acting out of the big blind. After Nadal checked the flop, he checked and Mercier bet 3,700 with the flick of his wrist. Nadal called, and the turn was the . Both players checked, and then checked the river card. Nadal showed the for a pair of jacks, and he won the pot. Mercier mucked.
On the very next deal of the cards, Mercier opened from middle position to 4,000. An unknown opponent called on the button, and everyone else folded.
The flop was , and Mercier continued with a bet of 3,600. His opponent raised to 11,200, and Mercier called. The turn was the , and both players checked to see the pair the board on the river. That's where Mercier checked and his opponent bet 23,000. Mercier tanked for a bit, before finally tossing in the call. His opponent showed a flopped straight with the , and Mercier mucked his hand.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Jose Manuel Nadal | 108,000 | 52,800 |
Jason Mercier
|
58,500 | -33,500 |
The tournament staff has announced that there will be four more hands before play concludes for the day.
Brazil's Ronaldo opens up about the poker games he played during his football career, his love for the game and his excitement to play in the huge $10,000 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event.
Sean Winter three-bet to 14,000 in middle position and then shoved all in over a four-bet from Mario Puccini on the button. The German made the call.
Winter:
Puccini:
Winter found no help as the board ran out .
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Mario Puccini | 380,000 | 336,900 |
Sean Winter | Eliminado |
Three players including Pratyush Buddiga and Philip Klein took a flop of in a raised pot. There were two checks over to Buddiga and he fired out a bet of 7,500. Klein replied by moving all in over the top for approximately 80,000. It folded back to Buddiga and he announced a call.
Buddiga:
Klein:
Buddiga led with top two pair and he retained that lead as Klein bricked through the on the turn and the on the river. Buddiga stacked his new chips and boosted his stack to about 340,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Pratyush Buddiga | 340,000 | 175,600 |
Philip Klein
|
Eliminado |
Carlos Chadha opened to 4,000 from the button and Laszlo Bujtas three-bet shipped for 30,900 from the big blind. Chadha called and the hands were turned on their backs.
Chadha:
Bujtas:
The flop fell , pairing Bujtas but giving Chadha four to a spade flush and an inside Broadway draw.
"I like this flop!" remarked Chadha.
Unfortunately, he disliked the turn and river as he failed to improve with the and the . Bujtas doubled and now sits around 70,000 in chips.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Carlos Chadha | 310,000 | -45,000 |
Laszlo Bujtas | 70,000 | -29,600 |