$1,100 BSOP Bahamas Main Event Dia 2 | 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

$1,100 BSOP Bahamas Main Event

Dia 2 Iniciado

2023-01-23 12:25 UTC-4

Day 2 Seat Draw

MattHansen

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips	Day 2 Big Blinds
1	1	Frederic Robert	Canada	25,500	21
1	2	Marcel Schwarz	Germany	32,000	27
1	4	Young Eum	USA	142,300	119
1	6	Andre Machado	Brazil	33,000	28
1	7	Gabriel Jansen	Brazil	25,500	21
1	8	Allan Barnes	Canada	68,400	57

2	1	Eduardo Lopes	Brazil	69,000	58
2	2	Paul Dewald	USA	182,000	152
2	3	Arash Shahi	Canada	75,300	63
2	4	Lucas Silva Rocha	Brazil	82,900	69
2	5	Diogo De Melo Cardoso	Brazil	44,000	37
2	6	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Netherlands	131,000	109

3	2	Julio De La Rosa	Dominican Republic	19,300	16
3	3	Vanessa Kade	Canada	76,800	64
3	4	Katie Lindsay	Canada	38,300	32
3	5	Jason Wheeler	USA	85,400	71
3	6	Fabio Muhr	Austria	106,100	88
3	7	Eric Schaeffer	USA	87,800	73

4	2	Diego Cuellar	Peru	106,300	89
4	4	Ludovic Geilich	United Kingdom	37,000	31
4	5	Brett Kennedy	Canada	232,700	194
4	6	Olga Iermolcheva	Ukraine	36,800	31
4	7	Micha Hoedemaker	Netherlands	94,500	79
4	8	Jessica Teusl	Austria	45,900	38

5	1	Yannick Cardot	France	160,700	134
5	3	Rajat Sharma	India	63,500	53
5	4	Paul Ephremsen	United Kingdom	76,600	64
5	5	Aurelie Reard	France	23,700	20
5	6	Tomislav Radisic	Canada	118,500	99
5	8	Vicente Delgado	Spain	139,000	116

6	1	Klemens Roiter	Austria	55,500	46
6	2	Guillermo Sanz	Spain	56,900	47
6	3	Ricardo Caridade	Portugal	23,500	20
6	5	Jonathan Little	USA	54,600	46
6	6	Allan Ribeiro	Brazil	111,700	93
6	8	Steven Walters	USA	20,000	17

7	1	Shawn Buchanan	Canada	93,700	78
7	2	Patrick Stacey	Canada	31,600	26
7	3	Davide Lamorte	Italy	56,100	47
7	4	Franco Spitale	Argentina	36,700	31
7	5	Lindsay Kido	USA	26,400	22
7	8	Sebastian Toro Henao	Colombia	33,600	28

8	1	Blake Anderson	USA	87,600	73
8	2	Felipe Boianovsky	Brazil	54,200	45
8	3	Christopher Day	United Kingdom	83,500	70
8	5	Martin Johnstone	United Kingdom	80,800	67
8	6	Renato Minicuci	Italy	41,600	35
8	7	Luc Lafontaine	Canada	95,900	80

9	1	Fabiano Kovalski	Brazil	42,200	35
9	4	Jolan Mancini	USA	43,300	36
9	5	Kelvin Kerber	Brazil	106,700	89
9	6	Julian Pineda Lozano	Mexico	64,800	54
9	7	Ana Marquez	Spain	35,400	30
9	8	Ricardo Mateo	USA	67,600	56

10	1	Matthew Hunt	USA	57,400	48
10	2	Mekhail Mekhal	Canada	192,000	160
10	4	Maximiliano Castagnini	Argentina	71,700	60
10	5	Andrei Spataru	Romania	69,800	58
10	6	Evgenii Tsatskin	Canada	73,600	61
10	7	Noel Datta	Canada	47,000	39

11	1	Philipp Gruissem	Germany	56,100	47
11	2	Jose Totel	Brazil	146,100	122
11	3	Ethan Yau	USA	61,300	51
11	4	Conor Beresford	United Kingdom	50,900	42
11	6	Blaz Zerjav	Slovenia	152,100	127
11	7	Nenad Dukic	Croatia	80,000	67

12	1	Johan Schumacher	Belgium	67,600	56
12	4	Jeffery Gagnon	Canada	131,600	110
12	5	Amauri Grutka	Brazil	54,800	46
12	6	Ricardo Nakamura	Brazil	44,500	37
12	7	Bela Toth	Hungary	10,200	9
12	8	Francisco Caballo Pena	USA	23,300	19

13	1	Steven Fandozzi	USA	73,900	62
13	3	Daniel De Sousa Custodio	Brazil	59,500	50
13	4	Eladio Alarcon	Canada	89,400	75
13	5	Stewart Chantler	USA	140,500	117
13	6	Lukas Chiciak	Canada	16,500	14
13	7	Joseph Drory	USA	59,600	50

14	1	Iliodoros Kamatakis	Greece	109,000	91
14	3	Graydon Kowal	Canada	266,000	222
14	4	Sean Jackson	Canada	112,000	93
14	5	Lewis Spencer	United Kingdom	79,000	66
14	6	Leandro Ruy	Brazil	26,700	22
14	7	Elliot Smith	Canada	184,300	154

15	2	Luc Greenwood	Canada	38,600	32
15	4	Robert Petronio	Canada	182,000	152
15	5	Luis Pinho De Faria	Portugal	62,500	52
15	6	Jeffrey Snook	Canada	49,800	42
15	7	Joshua Berry	Canada	82,600	69
15	8	Jun Choi	Brazil	29,200	24

16	1	Maria Konnikova	USA	111,900	93
16	3	Donald Lloyd	Canada	24,800	21
16	4	Chino Rheem	USA	87,500	73
16	6	Fintan Hand	Ireland	73,700	61
16	7	Michio Kawasaki	Japan	46,400	39
16	8	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	46,200	39

17	1	Shiva Dudani	USA	50,900	42
17	2	Vladimir Vasilyev	USA	50,000	42
17	3	Charles Lehr	USA	159,900	133
17	5	Andrew Chen	Canada	141,100	118
17	6	Adrian State	Romania	88,000	73
17	8	Fady Habashi	Canada	13,700	11

2023-01-23 12:29 UTC-4

Welcome to Day 2 of the $1,100 BSOP Bahamas Main Event

Welcome back to Day 2 of the $1,100 Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) Bahamas Main Event here at the 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Yesterday was an action packed affair with 258 entries joining the field to create a prize pool of $250,260 and 102 players finding a bag. That number will surely grow as late registration and reentries will be open until the end of Level 10.

After the dust settled, it was Canada's Graydon Kowal that bagged the chip lead and will return today with 266,000 in chips. Close on his heels is Brett Kennedy with 232,000 and Mekhail Mekhail with 192,000 to round out the all-Canadian top three. Kowal is no stranger to the PCA and has been grinding these events as far back as 2011 and will look to put his 221 big blinds to work in the hunt for a victory.

2023 BSOP Bahamas Main Event Top Ten Day 1 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Day 2 Big Blinds
1	Graydon Kowal	Canada	266,000	221
2	Brett Kennedy	Canada	232,000	193
3	Mekhail Mekhail	Canada	192,000	160
4	Elliot Smith	Canada	184,300	153
5	Robert Petronio	Canada	182,000	151
6	Paul Dewald	United States	182,000	151
7	Yannick Cardot	France	160,700	134
8	Keith Lehr	United States	159,900	134
9	Blaz Zerjav	Slovenia	152,100	127
10	Jose Totel	Brazil	146,100	122

Many notables joined the action on Day 1, and some who found a bag included Maria Konnikova (111,900), Vanessa Kade (76,800), and PokerStars Ambassador Fintan Hand (73,700). Table 1 was action-packed all day and included a star-studded line up. PokerStars Ambassadors Parker Talbot and Benjamin Spragg unfortunately couldn't find the run good magic to secure a bag but will have plenty of time to hop back in today.

Restart will be at 2 p.m. local time and blinds will resume at Level 9 with blinds of 600/1,200 with a 1,200 big blind ante. Day 2 will play eight more 60-minute levels and those who are fortunate enough to make it to the end of day will come back for Day 3 on Tuesday, January 24th at 12:30 p.m.

Be sure to stay tuned for continued live PokerNews coverage of the 2023 BSOP Main Event and the rest of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure at Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas.

Tags: Benjamin Spragg Blaz Zerjav Brett Kennedy Elliot Smith Fintan Hand Graydon Kowal Jose Totel Maria Konnikova Mekhail Mekhail Parker Talbot Paul Dewald Robert Petronio Vanessa Kade Yannick Cardot

2023-01-23 12:45 UTC-4

Top 5 Poker Movies You Must Watch

Over the past century, poker has permeated pop culture, especially when it comes to motion pictures. Long before the “Poker Boom”, and even before the World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a thing, poker had already made its big screen debut.

Over the decades, poker fans have been treated to a plethora of poker movies, some good and others not so much. Some well-received poker films include the western comedy Maverick (1994), Survivor host Jeff Probst’s debut film Finder’s Fee (2001), the improv-inspired The Grand (2007), indie comedy darling Hitting the Nuts (2010), and the high-profile Hollywood flick Molly’s Game (2017).

All of those are among the best poker movies of all time, and if this article was “Top 10” instead of “Top 5 Poker Movies,” chances are they’d make the final list. However, the PokerNews crew got together, along with input from social media, to determine the top five must-watch poker movies of all time.

Read the Top 5 Poker Movies You Must Watch Here!

Nível: 9

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 1,200

2023-01-23 15:05 UTC-4

Shuffle Up and Deal

Nível 9 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

The cards are in the air and action is now underway in Day 2 of the $1,100 Brazilian Series of Poker(BSOP) Bahamas Main Event. Late registration and reentries are available for two more levels of play.

2023-01-23 15:20 UTC-4

Konnikova Takes From Kawasaki Before Surrendering Double

MattHansen

Nível 9 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Michio Kawasaki raised to 3,000 from the button and Maria Konnikova called from the big blind. The flop was and both players checked. The turn was and it was checked through to see on the river. Konnikova fired 6,000 and Kawasaki called and mucked when she turned over to take the pot with three jacks.

A few moments later, Chino Rheem raised to 2,700 from middle position and Maria Konnikova called before Jonathan Bussieres shoved his last 29,400 from the big blind. Rheem thought for a moment but he got out of the way and Konnikova called. Action was heads up and Bussieres was at risk.

Jonathan Bussieres:
Maria Konnikova:

The board ran out and Bussieres held on with pocket kings to secure the double.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Chino Rheem	95,000	7,500
Maria Konnikova	92,500	-19,400
Jonathan Bussieres	77,000	77,000
Michio Kawasaki	29,300	-17,100

Tags: Jonathan Bussieres Maria Konnikova

2023-01-23 15:39 UTC-4

Lafontaine Finds Perfect River to Score Massive Double Up

Nível 9 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Christopher Day opened the action from under the gun to 2,600 and it folded around to Luc Lafontaine in the cutoff who made the call. The button and small blind quickly got out of the way and the big blind came along.

The flop came and the big blind checked to Day who continued for 3,800. Lafontaine bumped up the action with a raise to 14,300 and only Day made the call.

On the turn, Day elected to lead for 16,000 and Lafontaine took a moment before tossing in chips for a call. The completed the board and Day quickly moved all in, barely covering the 42,100 stack of Lafontaine, who snap-called the bet.

Day rolled over for an overpair and Lafontaine confidently tabled for a rivered flush and the winning hand. Day was left with less than four big blinds and Lafontaine's stack sky rocketed up the leaderboard.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Luc Lafontaine	160,000	64,100
Christopher Day	4,000	-79,500

Tags: Christopher Day Luc Lafontaine

2023-01-23 15:39 UTC-4

Kade Runs Into Trouble

MattHansen

Nível 9 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

As reported to PokerNews, Vanessa Kade had just surrendered a double before Dietrich Fast got his last 39,000 into the middle. Kade was the one to look him up and the cards were turned over.

Dietrich Fast:
Vanessa Kade:

The board ran out and Fast picked up a flush to secure the double and leave Kade with just 4,600.

A few moments later, Kade was seen exiting the tournament area.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Dietrich Fast	108,000	108,000
Vanessa Kade	Eliminado

Tags: Dietrich Fast Vanessa Kade

2023-01-23 15:52 UTC-4

Jared “BeamDoctorPoker” Halter Streams PokerStars Platinum Pass Invitational Victory

Nível 9 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) is happening now, and later this month the PokerStars Players NLH Hold’em Championship (PSPC) will take place January 30-February 3. One man who will be heading to the Bahamas is 41-year-old Jared “BeamDoctorPoker” Halter, who won a Platinum Pass on PokerStars Michigan.

“I won a PSPC Platinum Pass on Wednesday, November 9,” Halter told PokerNews. “I had just returned from Vegas that morning on a red eye flight and slept for four hours on a friend’s couch before I drove home for two hours. To be honest, I was very fortunate to win because I had a very rough 72 hours. Some things happened in Vegas that caused me to have anxiety attacks for the first time in my life and I ended up only sleeping about five hours total in the previous 48.”

He continued: “I was exhausted and when the MTT started, I said to myself, it will take a miracle for me to win. Funny enough, I mis-clicked two different times early in the tourney and called three-bets with hands like 85o (I did not win those hands). I streamed the tourney, and only single tabled it, because of how tired and ungrounded I felt from the previous time. During the stream, I talked about how exhausted I was and how there was almost zero chance I win. Of course, as we know, the universe had a different plan.”