Welcome back for Day 3 of the PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure here at the beautiful Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas. Yesterday saw the dreams dashed of around 600 players, leaving 280 of them remaining in the field.
Another six levels of play is scheduled for the day and it is expected that the money bubble will burst. Just over 50 of the remaining players will not be paid as 224 make the money.
Praz Bansi stormed to the top of the leaderboard yesterday and will be entering the day with nearly one million in chips. Here's how the top 10 stacks look for today.
Praz Bansi - 960,800
Marc Etienne McLaughlin - 702,400
Wayne Bentley - 602,500
[Removed:197] - 528,300
Daniel Ades - 501,400
Eric Froehlich - 467500
Matthew Haugen - 456,400
Kenny Hicks Jr - 455,000
Matt Graham - 428,900
Danny Suied - 420,000
Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Amnon Filippi and Dario Minieri are just a few of the top names remaining in the field.
The cards will be in the air at 12:00 p.m. local time. Be sure to be right back here for all the live updates on PokerNews.com as the trek for PCA gold continues on.
With the action folded around to him in late position, Daniel Negreanu slid his remaining 44,000 chips all in. The player on the button thought for a couple long minutes before reluctantly folding, and the rest of the table followed suit to send the blinds and antes over to Kid Poker.
"You have a big hand down there?" Negreanu asked the button. When he nodded slowly, Negreanu flashed and prodded, "You have that crushed?" Another slow nod.
As he pulled in the chips, Negreanu shrugged and added, "Whaddya gonna do? I can't fold that."
Ludovic Lacay opened the pot with a raise before the next player to act moved all in for about 55,000. Action folded over to Dan Shak in the big blind and he moved all in for 126,700 total. Lacay snap-called the all in and three hands would be going at it for a lot of chips.
Shak rolled over the , Lacay tabled and the other player held .
The board ran out clean for Shak when it came and he won the big three-way all in to move to over 300,000 chips. After shipping over the chips to Shak, Lacay was left with only 2,000.
Wayne Bentley open-raised to 10,000 from the button, and Dennis Phillips was the lone caller, matching the bet from the small blind.
The flop came out , and both players checked. Fourth street brought the action card though, the . After another Phillips check, Bentley fired a bet of 15,000. Phillips then stuck in a check-raise to 40,000 straight, and Bentley eventually announced a covering all-in reraise. Phillips went deep into the tank for several long minutes as he debated the decision for his tournament life. The Team PokerStars Pro had about 80,000 chips left in front of him, and he finally shrugged and made the call.
Showdown
Phillips:
Bentley:
It was a fine call by Phillips for the rest of his chips, but his good play would go unrewarded. The peeled off on the river to four-flush the gregarious pro right out of the tournament. The two men exchanged a few kind words as Phillips pushed his stacks over to his opponent. As he shipped the last two towers, Phillips mumbled, "Here you go. Have another mound of chips."
Phillips is out, while Bentley is up in second place with about 740,000 chips.
Steve Paul-Ambrose moved all in from under the gun for 40,100. Hafiz Khan was in the next slot and made the call. Everyone else folded and the hands were revealed.
Khan held to dominate Ambrose's .
The flop shed some light on Ambrose's world when it came , adding a couple of draws to his hand.
The turn was the , but then the on the river completed a flush for Ambrose and he doubled up to over 90,000. Khan slipped to 298,000.
Ludovic Lacay is doing work. Down to just 20,000 lonely chips, Lacay moved in with preflop. Nicolas Levi looked him up with , and a board running held Ludovic's pair and doubled him up to 43,600.
On the following hand, Lacay moved in again, this time pushing 43,200 into the middle from the cutoff seat. Levi was the caller again, coming along from the big blind with . Lacay was behind but drawing live with . Salvation would come for the Frenchman though, as the dealer spread a board of .
After being down to just 1,500 chips a few minutes ago, Lacay is all the way back up to 92,000! Table mate Huck Seed knows what's going on here: "Looks like you'll be the chip leader in about 17 minutes."
Phil Ivey's chip stack is looking a lot bigger nowadays. Checking back in on his table, Praz Bansi has been moved there and David Baker, who was seated to Ivey's left, is out. Bansi started the day with nearly one million chips, but is now down to 670,000. Ivey has exploded way up to 725,000.
Bansi and Ivey have been playing a few hands together and this looks to be the calm before the storm before the two clash in a huge pot.