2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

$10,000 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
$1,859,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$9,573,900
Entries
987
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Players Info - Day 1b

Waxman Lets The Clock Expire

With around 12,000 in the pot and a board reading {5-Spades}{8-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}, an early-position player fired out a huge bet of 17,000 into Matt Waxman, who was sitting with a big stack.

Waxman thought long and hard as his opponent still had a considerable stack behind. Minute passed before a clock was called, and then another minute passed as the floor counted down to zero. At that point the dealer mucked Waxman's hand and his opponent revealed {A-}{A-}.

Player Chips Progress
Matt Waxman us
Matt Waxman
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
110,000 -10,000

Tags: Matt Waxman

Rettenmaier's Aces Cracked

Marvin Rettenmaier - Eliminated
Marvin Rettenmaier - Eliminated

A player in early position opened to 1,400 and Jacob Naquin called from the next seat over. Marvin Rettenmaier, from the cutoff, three-bet to 3,825. The player in the small blind four-bet to 8,275, forcing a fold from the original raiser. Naquin, though five-bet to about 16,000. Rettenmaier six-bet all in for roughly 25,000, resulting in a fold from the player in the small blind. Naquin called immediately.

Rettenmaier: {A-Hearts}{A-Clubs}
Naquin: {Q-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts}

The board came down {K-Spades}{10-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{9-Clubs}{J-Hearts} as Naquin rivered a straight to eliminate Rettenmaier.

Player Chips Progress
Jacob Naquin
Jacob Naquin
105,000 105,000
Marvin Rettenmaier de
Marvin Rettenmaier
WPT 2X Winner
Busted

Tags: Jacob NaquinMarvin Rettenmaier

Adoubleupoulos for Polychronopoulos

Athanasios Polychronopoulos checked to Joe McGowan on a flop of {3-Diamonds}{5-Spades}{8-Spades}. McGowan tossed out 2,000, Polychronopoulos check-raised to 11,500 - effectively going all in - and McGowan tanked for a bit before pushing out a stack of blue T5,000 chips, raising to 13,650. Polychronopoulos called.

Polychronopoulos: {a-Spades}{3-Spades}
McGowan: {10-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}

The {q-Clubs} on the turn was a brick, but the river was the {2-Spades}, giving Polychronopoulos a flush. He doubled to around 30,000 chips, while McGowan slipped to 80,000.

Player Chips Progress
Joe McGowan
Joe McGowan
80,000 80,000
Athanasios Polychronopoulos us
Athanasios Polychronopoulos
WSOP 2X Winner
34,000 3,000

Tags: Athanasios PolychronopoulosJoe McGowan

Makhija Finally Succumbs

Amit Makhija was nursing a short stack much of the day, and any hope of a comeback recently came to an end with his elimination.

We didn't catch his bust, but 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up Jesse Sylvia did as he was seated to the direct right of Makhija all day. According to him, Makhija shoved his short stack from early position with {5-}{5-} and received a call from a player holding {A-}{Q-}. The board ran out {10-}{10-}{K-}{J-}{K-} and Makhija's opponent made a straight to win the hand.

Player Chips Progress
Amit Makhija us
Amit Makhija
Busted

Tags: Amit MakhijaJesse Sylvia

Shulman Doubles Through Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu was recently moved to a new table where he was graced with such poker presences as Vanessa Rousso and Barry Shulman. In fact, Negreanu has history with the latter as he fell at the hands of Shulman during heads up play of the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event.

Today it seems was no different for Negreanu, as he and Shulman were engaged in a pot that saw Negreanu ship a solid portion of his stack over to the WSOPE champion.

The two took a flop heads up with over 8,000 already in the pot. The flop came {A-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds}{Q-Spades} and Negreanu came out firing with a bet of 5,100. Shulman quickly moved all in and Negreanu snapped him off only to find that he was behind.

Negreanu: {A-Spades}{Q-Hearts}
Shulman: {J-Hearts}{10-Hearts}

Shulman was ahead with Broadway and was hoping to fade Negreanu's full house outs. The turn was the {8-Hearts} and the river the {5-Hearts} securing Shulman a double up through KidPoker. Shulman is now sitting at about 55,000 while Negreanu has fallen to 42,000.

Player Chips Progress
Barry Shulman us
Barry Shulman
WSOP 2X Winner
55,000 3,000
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
42,000 -22,475

Tags: Barry ShulmanDaniel Negreanu

Andress Straightens Out Opponent

There was about 10,000 in the middle when we reached the table. The board read {7-Spades}{j-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}, and two players checked to John Andress, who fired 5,700. One player check-raised to 15,000, the other folded, and Andress called.

The river was the {2-Clubs}, and the player led out for 12,000. Andress scrunched his face, then announced that he was all in (about 10,000 more). The player quickly called.

Andress tabled {10-Clubs}{9-Clubs} for a straight, and the player flashed {9-Spades}{8-Spades} before exiting.

Andress, who won the 2011 EPT Prague High Roller, is now flirting with a six-figure stack.

Player Chips Progress
John Andress us
John Andress
95,000 65,000

Tags: John Andress

Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
EPT 1X Winner
130,000 81,000
Matt Waxman us
Matt Waxman
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
110,000 -15,000
David Sands us
David Sands
105,000 62,000
Eli Elezra il
Eli Elezra
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
WPT 1X Winner
86,000 40,000
Eddy Sabat us
Eddy Sabat
82,000 50,000
Mayu Roca
Mayu Roca
75,000 -50,000
Jake Bazeley us
Jake Bazeley
73,000 36,000
Cherish Andrews us
Cherish Andrews
70,000 32,000
Jesse Sylvia us
Jesse Sylvia
WPT 1X Winner
64,000 22,000
Mohsin Charania us
Mohsin Charania
WSOP 1X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
WPT 2X Winner
55,000 34,000
Jeff Gross us
Jeff Gross
47,000 19,000
Dario Minieri it
Dario Minieri
38,000 5,000
Timothy Finne us
Timothy Finne
36,000 -5,000
Amit Zulkowitz il
Amit Zulkowitz
35,000 -22,000
Alex Kravchenko ru
Alex Kravchenko
31,000 2,000
Tatiana Barausova ru
Tatiana Barausova
30,000 9,000
Daniel Ospina co
Daniel Ospina
WSOP 1X Winner
26,000 -11,000
Christian Harder us
Christian Harder
25,000 4,000
David "ODB" Baker us
David "ODB" Baker
WSOP 3X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
25,000 1,000
Jamie Kerstetter us
Jamie Kerstetter
15,000 -2,000
Matthias de Meulder be
Matthias de Meulder
13,000 -41,000
Amit Makhija us
Amit Makhija
6,000 -3,500