2010 PCA Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
2010 PCA Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
1,529
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 1529
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The day was filled with action from start to finish as the field whittled down from 884 players to approximately 300. (The number on the board currently reads 314, but it's been that way for a solid half hour).
Praz Bansi is your certifiable unofficial overnight chip leader with 960,800 in chips. A significant majority of those chips came from Team PokerStars Pro J.C. Alvarado in a hand in which the Team Mexico Pro was eliminated from the competition. Alvarado flopped top set (queens) but Bansi turned a flush. Needless to say, the two got it all in and Alvarado failed to improve on the river, cementing the pot for the Englishman.
Joining Bansi at the top of the overnight leaderboard are big stacks [Removed:197], Marc Etienne McLaughlin and Wayne Bentley. Team PokerStars Pros Ivan Demidov, Dario Minieri and Johnny Lodden also fared well this afternoon and each will return tomorrow for Day 3 play.
Among the less fortunate players who failed to reach the bag-and-tag portion of the day were Team PokerStars Pros Benjamin Kang, Barry Greenstein, Humberto Brenes, Peter Eastgate and Marcel Luske.
Action is scheduled to resume at 12:00 noon EST Friday afternoon. Join us then for our continued coverage of the 2010 PokerStars.net PCA Main Event from Atlantis Resort, Hotel & Casino in The Bahamas.
Until then, good night and good luck!
We caught up to the hand with the board showing
and about 60,000 already in the middle. Ivey checked, his opponent bet 27,000 and Ivey called. The river brought the
and Ivey checked once more, prompting his opponent to move all in, putting Ivey to a decision for all of his chips (about 70,000). Ivey made the call and his opponent tabled
for nothing but a missed flush draw. Ivey collected the 245,000 pot with a meager 
.
Daniel Negreanu opened the pot with a raise to 7,200 from early position. Action then folded around the table to [Removed:198] in the cutoff who called. A fold from the button brought the action to Kamberis in the small blind who kicked it up to 26,500. The big blind folded, as did Negreanu, sending the action back to [Removed:198] who four-bet to what appeared to be 40,000 more. Kamberis then five-bet shoved all in and [Removed:198] made the call for less, calling off the rest of his stack:
[Removed:198]:
Kamberis:
The ensuing board filled out
and [Removed:198]'s aces held up to claim the pot, worth just over half a million in chips.Kamberis dropped to 70,000 in the loss.
Showdown
Makhija:
Opponent:
The flop would find Makhija as it rolled out
. The turn and river came safe-safe, the and 
respectively, and the young pro comes from behind to notch a big double up. He's sitting just under 200,000 chips now with about 20 minutes left in Day 2.
A short-stacked Saul got the last of his chips into the middle holding
and was looked up by Serafimov who held 
. The ensuing board ran out
and Serafimov's king-queen held up to claim the pot and eliminate Saul from the tournament.After the hand, Serafimov stacked up 270,000 in chips.
against an opponent's unknown hand. We walked up just in time to see the river fall on a board of 
. With her Broadway straight, Baker has increased her stack to about 95,000.
PokerNews' own Gloria Balding caught up with the new host of the recently launched North American Poker Tour, model Joanna Krupa.
with his own 
. Negreanu spiked two pair, aces and nines, on the flop to secure the double up.
