The next two eliminations on Day 5 belonged to Anthony Borde and Olivier Busquet. Both were eliminated on the same hand against Ryan Fair, and here's how it went down.
Busquet raised to 50,000 from under the gun before Fair reraised to 132,000 from the next seat. Action then folded to Borde in the cutoff seat, and he moved all in for approximately 750,000. After action folded back to Busquet, he called all in for around 510,000. Fair then called and put both players at risk.
Busquet was the shortest stack of the three and held the . Borde was also at risk, and he held the . Fair had both of them crushed with both chips and hand, holding the .
The board provided no help, and Fair sent both Busquet and Borde out the door. Both earned $56,000 while Fair increased to 3.7 million in chips.
Guillaume Rivet has become the first casualty here on Day 5. He fell at the hands of fellow Canadian Jonathan Roy.
Roy opened with a raise to 48,000 before Rivet reraised all in for approximately 350,000 from the hijack seat. Roy made the call and tabled the . Rivet held the .
A board of ensured the win for Roy and knocked Rivet out in 21st place.
Welcome to PokerNews' Day 5 coverage of the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event. The starting field of 987 players is down to just 21 hopefuls, each with his eye on the $1,859,000 first-place prize. Leading the way into Day 5 is Dimitar Danchev with 4.08 million.
Danchev spent Day 4 steadily building his stack and by the time it was announced that three more hands would be dealt before bagging and tagging for the day, Danchev was third in chips before the biggest pot of the tournament took place. Danchev and start-of-Day-4 chip leader Patrick Kelly tangled in a roughly 4 million chip pot with Danchev emerging victorious to seize the chip lead.
A talented group is hot on his heels, though, as Owen Crowe (2.5 million), Ryan Fair (2.496 million), Yann Dion (2.296 million), and Robert Mizrachi (1.99 million) have exceptional poker résumés to their names and complete the top five chip counts.
Play is set to resume at noon local time, about 20 minutes from now, so be sure to keep it here throughout the day as we play down to a final table!