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Day 1c Completed
2018 Caribbean Poker Party
$5,300 Main Event
Day: 1c
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Level 8
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
All three starting flights are in the books in partypoker 2018 Caribbean Poker Party $5,300 Main Event, and plenty of work is left to be done if the $10 million guarantee is to be reached. After 451 turned up for Day 1c, the total entries has reached 958, just under half of the total needed.
Of those 451 who played the third starting day, about 275 made it through, consistent with the roughly 60 percent who bagged the first two days at Baha Mar Resort here in The Bahamas.
One of the biggest stacks belongs to Barny Boatman. The English veteran, the subject of a recent feature right here on PokerNews, turned his 1 million starting stack into 5,715,000, a monstrous number considering nobody finished north of 5 million in any of the previous days.
Boatman's already put up one big result in 2018 with a seventh-place finish in the $1,500 Millionaire Maker at the WSOP, good for $175,865. He started off with a nice push early but then made a sprint late, going from 3.5 million to his finishing number in the last hour.
However, as hefty as Boatman's stack is, he still trails at least one player in the counts. Turkey's Mustafa Biz has the unofficial lead with 6,170,000. Biz, who already won a $1K event at partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Germany earlier this year, won a massive pot late with aces over kings late in the day, according to a player at his table. Evidently, both made sets and Biz wound up with the nut flush on the river, where his opponent found a fold.
Darren Keyes (5,065,000), Gianluca Speranza (4,720,000), Joshua Ladines (3,955,000), Jeff Trudeau (3,620,000) and Darren Elias (3,560,000) also had strong Day 1c showings. Speranza finished second in last year's WSOPE Main Event, while Elias looks to add another major title to his record four WPT crowns.
The unique structure of this event still allows plenty of time for entries. That's because not only does a few hours of Day 2 registration remain, but there's actually two different Day 2 options for players to fire on.
Day 2a is the next step for this $10 million guaranteed event, scheduled for a start at noon local time on Tuesday. Players had the option to select their Day 2 if they bagged, and PokerNews will be on hand to cover those who picked Day 2a as blinds head to 10,000/20,000/20,000.
Level 8
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Level 8
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Will Givens was all in for about 350,000 when we arrived at his table. He was in the small blind and 
graced the felt. His opponent on the button thought awhile and called. Givens showed 
for trips and his opponent had just 
for ace-high.
Level: 8
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
Level 7
: 7,000/14,000, 14,000 ante
The event is inching toward 1,000 runners with about 950 total so through the three flights.
Level: 7
Blinds: 7,000/14,000
Ante: 14,000
Level 6
: 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
Dzmitry Urbanovich was down to his last 250,000 or so and got it all in preflop with 
against a player holding 
. The 
flop wasn't great for the partypoker pro as he now needed a jack. The wasn't enough help and the 
had him heading for the exits.
Players are now on dinner break, having just gotten enough entries to push past 900 total.
Level 6
: 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
Mike Dentale said he was on tilt when he opened 
and got three-bet by Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. That tilt compelled him to stuff his chips in on a four-bet bluff, by his recollection, and Grospellier tank-called with 
. Dentale said he was lucky enough to flop an open-ender and turn ElkY dead, so Grospellier will have to reenter now if he wishes to continue playing.
At another table, Eric Baldwin was on the button and called a bet of 110,000 on a flop of 
. His opponent checked from under the gun on the 
turn and Baldwin checked it back. On the 
river, the rest of the money went in, though we didn't see who made the aggressive action.
Baldwin turned over 
for top two and his opponent had gotten a tough river card holding . He shipped over 501,000.
Level: 6
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
