Brazil's Leonardo Pires Leads the 195 Day 2 Survivors
Thanks to the 25 players that took advantage of the late registration period, the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $5,300 Main Event officially attracted 928 entries, which created a $4,500,800 prize pool that will be distributed to the top 135 players. Whoever finishes as the last player standing will walk away with a cool $833,260, along with the title and coveted trophy.
The man best positioned to make a run at the title is Brazil's Leonardo Pires, who finished the Day 2 as chip leader with 524,000. Others who bagged big among the 195 survivors were Franco Spitale (432,300), Sampson Simmons (421,400), Phillip McAllister (420,600), Ami Barer (353,000), and Steve O'Dwyer (430,900), who was less than 24 hours removed from winning the $50,000 Single-Day High Roller.
Day 2 saw nearly 600 players return to action, but over the course of five 90-minute levels hundreds would hit the rail including actress Sasha Barrese, Mustapha Kanit, Bryn Kenney, Dan Colman, Isaac Haxton, Ole Schemion, Ryan Riess, Chris Moorman, Joe McKeehen, and Team PokerStars' Andre Akkari, Daniel Negreanu, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Jaime Staples, and Chris Moneymaker.
Regarding Moneymaker, the 2003 World Series of Poker Champ fell in Level 10 (500/1,000/100) when Thomas Muehloecker put Moneymaker all in on the 
board. Moneymaker called with the 
, but it was no good against the 
that Muehloecker held for two pair and Moneymaker was eliminated.
Another player to exit, albeit it in an unprecedented manner, was Antonio Esfandiari. He was disqualified due to a "breach of etiquette" at the table.
Late on Day 2, Esfandiari admitted to urinating in an undercover container while in the tournament, a decision tied to a prop bet with Bill Perkins that required him to lunge everywhere he went for 48 hours. He said that all of the lunging made it extremely painful to move, but believed he took things too far and that it was a lack of judgement on his behalf. At the time of the disqualification, Esfandiari had about 100,000 in chips.
Among those who survived the night were Jonathan Jaffe (255,400), John Racener (192,200), Kevin MacPhee (182,400), Toby Lewis (160,400), Calvin Anderson (153,900), Fedor Holz (114,500), and Benjamin Pollak (65,900).
Day 3 is set to kick off at 12 p.m. local time on Monday where the remaining players will play five more 90-minute levels. As always the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand to capture all the action, so be sure to join us then. In the meantime, check out this video on Esfandiari's crazy prop bet:
flop smacked Anderson right in the face by giving him Broadway! The 
turn left Pantazis looking for an ace on the river just to chop, but it wasn't in the cards as the 
flop, which both players checked. Action repeated itself on the 
turn, and then Calderaro fired out 5,000 on the 
river. Weel folded.
turn and 
river. Fardel showed the 
of Desvignes.
turn. Shakerchi bet 5,600, Desvignes check-raised to 14,900, and Shakerchi folded.
. Weel checked, Shakerchi continued for 6,000, and Campan quickly called. Weel folded, the dealer burned and turned the 
completed the board on the river, Shakerchi moved all in and Campan folded.
turn. Both players checked, the 
flop, Desvignes bet 2,500, and Esfandiari check-raised to 6,300. Desvignes called and then action went check-check on the 
. Both players checked the 
completed the board on the river, and Holz bet again.
for a straight. That hand left Riess crippled, and Holz finished him off shortly thereafter.
