$10,300 PCA Main Event Dia 3 | 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

$10,300 PCA Main Event

Dia 3 Iniciado

2023-01-26 12:02 UTC-4

Day 3 Seat Draw

MattHansen

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	1	Adrian Mateos	Spain	57,000	19
1	2	Ben Lamb	United States	128,000	43
1	3	Ryan Blank	United States	161,500	54
1	4	Justin Bonomo	United States	155,000	52
1	5	Taylor Paur	United States	239,500	80
1	6	Roger Teska	United States	110,500	37
1	7	Allan Ribeiro	Brazil	251,500	84
1	8	Dylan Linde	United States	80,000	27

2	1	Jean-Noel Thorel	France	255,000	85
2	2	Andrew Moreno	United States	328,000	109
2	3	John Racener	China	161,000	54
2	4	Gustavo Mastelotto	Brazil	72,000	24
2	5	Jonathan Little	United States	74,000	25
2	6	Nick Petrangelo	United States	261,500	87
2	7	Vladislav Solovev	Russia	152,000	51
2	8	John Juanda	Indonesia	176,500	59

3	1	Martin Raus	Canada	33,000	11
3	2	Javier Fernandez	Spain	74,000	25
3	3	Daniel Ghionoiu	Canada	164,000	55
3	4	Cassio Kiles	Brazil	100,500	34
3	5	Patros Benham	Canada	113,500	38
3	7	Artur Martirosian	Russia	82,500	28
3	8	Joe McKeehen	United States	86,500	29

4	1	Justin Steinbrenner	Germany	160,500	54
4	2	Espen Jorstad	Norway	36,000	12
4	3	David Coleman	United States	262,500	88
4	4	Mauricio Ferreira Pais	Germany	366,500	122
4	5	Chad Eveslage	United States	257,000	86
4	6	Anthony Hu	United States	135,500	45
4	7	Andy Wilson	United Kingdom	70,500	24
4	8	Michel Dattani	Portugal	194,500	65

5	1	Michael Rocco	United States	408,000	136
5	2	Mustapha Kanit	Italy	366,900	122
5	3	Pascal Hartmann	Germany	225,000	75
5	4	Jonathan Proudfoot	United Kingdom	67,000	22
5	5	Brian Kim	United States	98,000	33
5	6	Anton Wigg	Sweden	286,500	96
5	7	Chance Kornuth	United States	380,000	127
5	8	Rudy Cervantes	United States	202,500	68

6	1	Eric Afriat	Canada	301,000	100
6	2	Leonard Maue	Germany	224,000	75
6	3	Martin Zamani	United States	145,000	48
6	4	Ionut-Lucian Colciar	Romania	57,500	19
6	5	Christopher Frank	Germany	169,500	57
6	6	Sergi Reixach	Spain	174,500	58
6	7	David Mzareulov	Azerbaijan	127,500	43
6	8	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	704,000	235

7	1	Robert Heidorn	Germany	110,000	37
7	2	Sampson Simmons	United States	63,000	21
7	3	Alberto Meran	Dominican Republic	270,000	90
7	4	Pascal Lefrancois	Canada	158,000	53
7	5	Alexandros Kolonias	Greece	80,000	27
7	6	Ren Lin	United States	207,000	69
7	7	Florian Duta	Romania	228,000	76
7	8	Yigit Aksoy	Turkey	316,000	105

8	1	Yiannis Liperis	Cyprus	92,500	31
8	2	Giuseppe Pantaleo	Italy	196,000	65
8	3	Anatoly Nikitin	Russia	80,000	27
8	4	Ramin Hajiyev	Azerbaijan	150,500	50
8	5	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	104,000	35
8	6	Gianluca Speranza	Italy	81,500	27
8	7	Jesse Lonis	United States	30,000	10
8	8	Noah Schwartz	United States	111,000	37

9	1	Justin Saliba	United States	116,500	39
9	2	Zevola Marco	Argentina	134,000	45
9	3	James Harvey	United States	112,500	38
9	4	Daniel Custodio	Portugal	235,000	78
9	5	Paulina Loeliger	United States	68,500	23
9	6	Andre Machado	Brazil	74,000	25
9	7	Sylvain Loosli	France	81,000	27
9	8	Robert Cowen	United Kingdom	64,500	22

10	1	Michael Gathy	Belgium	191,500	64
10	2	David Stamm	United States	44,000	15
10	3	Justin Zaki	United States	94,000	31
10	4	Stefan Lehner	Austria	18,500	6
10	5	David Peters	United States	154,500	52
10	6	Tamas Konya	Hungary	42,500	14
10	7	Dietrich Fast	Germany	148,000	49
10	8	Ambrose Ng	Canada	76,500	26

11	1	Lucas Landa	Argentina	257,500	86
11	2	Ramon Colillas	Spain	236,000	79
11	3	Jason Mercier	United States	64,500	22
11	4	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	119,000	40
11	5	Andras Nemeth	Hungary	247,000	82
11	6	Thomas Muehloecker	Austria	79,000	26
11	7	Philip Shing	United States	188,500	63
11	8	Evan Sparling	Canada	469,000	156

12	1	Alexander Tkatschew	Germany	92,500	31
12	2	Maria Ho	United States	96,500	32
12	3	Kelvin Kerber	Brazil	154,000	51
12	4	Vladas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	86,000	29
12	5	Ignacio Moron	Spain	330,500	110
12	6	Darren Rabinowitz	United States	170,000	57
12	7	Balakrishna Patur	United States	116,500	39
12	8	Johan Guilbert	France	265,000	88

13	1	Pedro Neves	Portugal	170,000	57
13	2	Mitchell Halverson	United States	123,000	41
13	3	Anthony Swift	United States	100,000	33
13	4	Chino Rheem	United States	428,500	143
13	5	Juan Membreno	El Salvador	100,000	33
13	6	Andre Marques	Portugal	363,000	121
13	7	Thomas Eychenne	France	141,500	47
13	8	Andre Akkari	Brazil	123,500	41

14	1	Rui Bouquet	Portugal	161,000	54
14	2	James Mendoza	United States	257,500	86
14	3	Giovani Gouveia	Brazil	135,000	45
14	4	Fabian Quoss	Germany	112,500	38
14	5	Noah Boeken	Netherlands	144,000	48
14	6	Rehman Kassam	United Kingdom	162,000	54
14	7	Eliot Hudon	Canada	303,500	101
14	8	Colton Blomberg	United States	318,500	106

15	1	Maria Konnikova	United States	206,000	69
15	2	Luis Pinho De Faria	Portugal	328,500	110
15	3	Fabian Bernhauser	Austria	263,500	88
15	4	Joseph Drory	United States	145,500	49
15	5	Christoph Csik	United States	451,500	151
15	6	Isaac Haxton	United States	88,000	29
15	7	Pablo Brito Silva	Brazil	87,500	29
15	8	Jamil Wakil	Canada	313,000	104

16	1	Laszlo Bujtas	Hungary	229,000	76
16	2	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	83,500	28
16	3	Alexandre Raymond	Canada	172,500	58
16	4	Lander Lijo	Spain	117,500	39
16	5	Ian Matakis	United States	353,000	118
16	6	Scott Bohlman	United States	222,000	74
16	7	Mike Watson	Canada	164,500	55
16	8	Anton Astapau	Belarus	98,500	33

17	1	Tobias Schwecht	Germany	198,000	66
17	2	James Tolbert	United States	112,000	37
17	3	Brian England	United States	106,000	35
17	4	Robert Lofaso	United States	54,500	18
17	5	David Miscikowski	United States	35,000	12
17	6	Dean Murphy	Canada	411,000	137
17	7	Tauan Naves	Brazil	105,000	35
17	8	Lewis Spencer	United Kingdom	228,500	76

18	1	Xuan Liu	Canada	182,500	61
18	2	Seth Davies	United States	110,000	37
18	3	Rodrigo Selouan	Brazil	172,500	58
18	4	Andrew Chen	Canada	155,500	52
18	5	Pedro Marques	Portugal	104,000	35
18	6	Giuseppe Iadisernia	Venezuela	280,000	93
18	7	Chris Brewer	United States	261,000	87
18	8	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	518,000	173

19	1	Elio Fox	United States	234,008	78
19	2	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	93,000	31
19	3	Jose Severino	Panama	87,000	29
19	4	Alessandro Siena	Italy	138,000	46
19	5	Elias Gutierrez	Spain	113,500	38
19	6	Samad Rashid	United States	259,000	86
19	7	Franck Makaci	France	145,000	48
19	8	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	155,500	52

2023-01-26 12:03 UTC-4

Welcome to Day 3 of the 2023 PCA Main Event

MattHansen

Welcome to Day 3 of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event at the Baha Mar Resort on New Providence Island in The Bahamas. Cards go in the air at 12 p.m. local time for the third day of this six-day event.

A total of 889 entries were put in for the PCA Main Event, and Alex Kulev leads the 151 surviving players from Day 2 with 704,000. Ehsan Amiri trails in second with 518,000, and Evan Sparling rounds out the top three with 469,000.

2023 PCA Main Event Top Ten Day 2 Chip Counts

Place	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	704,000	235
2	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	518,000	173
3	Evan Sparling	Canada	469,000	156
4	Christoph Csik	United States	451,500	151
5	Chino Rheem	United States	428,500	143
6	Dean Murphy	Canada	411,000	137
7	Michael Rocco	United States	408,000	136
8	Chance Kornuth	United States	380,000	127
9	Mustapha Kanit	Italy	366,900	122
10	Mauricio Ferreira Pais	Germany	366,500	122

Chino Rheem, Chance Kornuth, and Mustapha Kanit also found their way to the leaderboard in a tournament that drew some of poker's biggest stars from all over the world. They'll return in Level 14 with blinds at 1,500/3,000/3,000, and the plan is to play another five 90-minute levels on Day 3.

Other returning players include Nick Petrangelo, Chris Brewer, Chad Eveslage, Maria Ho, as well as PokerStars Ambassadors Sam Grafton, Andre Akkari, and Roman Colillas.

The money bubble is expected to burst on Day 3, and the top 127 players are guaranteed a min-cash of $17,600. The field generated a prize pool of $8,623,300, from which the winner will take home $1,500,000. Today's action will be streamed on the PokerStars Twitch channel.

2023 PCA Main Event Payouts

Place	Prize (in USD)	Place	Prize (in USD)
1	$1,500,000	16-17	$68,000
2	$1,000,000	18-20	$59,100
3	$677,400	21-23	$51,400
4	$519,600	24-27	$44,700
5	$399,800	28-31	$38,900
6	$307,500	32-39	$33,800
7	$236,500	40-55	$29,400
8	$181,900	56-71	$25,600
9	$139,900	72-95	$22,300
10-11	$112,600	96-119	$19,300
12-13	$93,800	120-127	$17,600
14-15	$78,200

Be sure to keep it with the PokerNews team all day long for live updates from the floor of the PCA Main Event here at Baha Mar Resort in The Bahamas.

Tags: Alex Kulev Chance Kornuth Chino Rheem Christoph Csik Dean Murphy Ehsan Amiri Evan Sparling Mauricio Ferreira Pais Michael Rocco Mustapha Kanit PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Nível: 14

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 3,000

2023-01-26 13:09 UTC-4

Day 3 Begins

Calum_Grant

Nível 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The tournament director has instructed the dealers to shuffle up and deal. Day 3 of the PCA Main Event has begun with 151 of the 889 players remaining.

2023-01-26 13:12 UTC-4

O'Dwyer Takes in First Pot of the Day

Calum_Grant

Nível 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Steve O'Dwyer opened to 6,500 from middle position and was called by Elio Fox on his direct left and Stefan Lehner from the small blind.

Action checked through to the river for the final board to show . Chen checked and O'Dwyer bet 8,000. Fox thought about it for a moment before settling on a fold and Lehner called after some time in the tank.

O'Dwyer had the for a flush and Lehner mucked.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Elio Fox	232,000	-2,008
Steve O'Dwyer	181,000	25,500
Stefan Lehner	140,000	121,500

Tags: Stefan Lehner Elio Fox Steve O'Dwyer

2023-01-26 13:15 UTC-4

Three-Bet and C-Bet Enough for Cervantes

Nível 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Chance Kornuth raised to 6,000 from early position and was three-bet by Rudy Cervantes, who made it 16,000 from middle position. Kornuth called.

The flop came and action checked to Cervantes who bet 20,000. Kornuth folded as Cervantes raked in his first pot of the day.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Chance Kornuth	364,000	-16,000
Rudy Cervantes	226,000	23,500

Tags: Chance Kornuth Rudy Cervantes

2023-01-26 13:20 UTC-4

Rheem Cracks Akkari's Kings

Calum_Grant

Nível 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Andre Akkari opened to 6,000 from under the gun and was called by Chino Rheem and Thomas Eychenne from the cutoff and big blind respectively.

Action checked through to the river, with the completed board of on display.

Eychenne checked and Akkari fired for 8,000.

"I made a good check on the turn," said Rheem as he called before Eychenne got out of the way.

"You made a good check on the flop," replied Akkari as he tabled his for a pair of kings.

Rheem, however, had the for a pair of aces to take down the pot.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Chino Rheem	445,000	16,500
Thomas Eychenne	135,000	-6,500
Andre Akkari	118,000	-5,500

Tags: Andre Akkari Chino Rheem Thomas Eychenne

2023-01-26 13:25 UTC-4

Watson Shoves on Jouhkimainen

Nível 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

There was around 29,000 in the pot. Joni Jouhkimainen was in middle position against Mike Watson in the big blind.

The board read and Watson checked. Jouhkimainen bet 15,000 and Watson paused before putting Jouhmainen all in for 68,000 effective. Jouhkimainen quickly folded as the chips went to Watson.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Mike Watson	195,000	30,500
Joni Jouhkimainen	53,000	-30,500

Tags: Joni Jouhkimainen Mike Watson

2023-01-26 13:27 UTC-4

Konnikova Takes With a River Bet; Petrangelo Chips Up

MattHansen

Nível 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Maria Konnikova raised to 6,500 from late position and Fabian Bernhauser came along from the button before Christoph Csik called in the big blind. The flop was and Konnikova continued for 9,000. Bernhauser called and Csik got out of the way for the on the turn. Konnikova checked the turn and Bernhauser fired 22,500, which Konnikova called to see on the river. Konnikova fired another bet and Bernhause tossed his cards in the muck to give up the pot.

Meanwhile, across the room, Nick Petrangelo was seen stacking up a big pot with showing and on the board. The apparent double moved Petrangelo over the 600,000 mark.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Nick Petrangelo	605,000	343,500
Maria Konnikova	256,000	50,000
Fabian Bernhauser	231,000	-32,500

Tags: Christoph Csik Fabian Bernhauser Maria Konnikova Nick Petrangelo