Break
2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
$25,000 High Roller Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Buy-in
$25,000
Prize Pool
$2,058,000
Entries
84
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Three-way Shovefest
Brummelhuis held
, Saul had 
and berende had 
. Saul was the shortest player with roughly 8,000 chips. Brummelhuis had both players covered.The board ran out
to give Saul the worst-to-first finish in the hand. He tripled to 24,000. Brummelhuis dropped to 40,000, while Berende won the side pot to move to 28,000.
Small Bet On River by Kenney
. After the 
fell on the turn, Negreanu bet 2,600. Kenney made the call.The river completed the board with the
and Negreanu checked. Kenney fired a small bet of 900 and Negreanu folded."I would've gotten it all in on the flop," said Negreanu.
Late Arrivals
Neuville placed second at EPT Vilamoura for over $380,000. Vedes won the WPT's Festa al Lago this year and also scored a 19th-place finish in the WSOP Main Event. Kostritsyn won the Aussie Millions Main Event back in 2008. Lisa Hamilton is the reigning WSOP Ladies' Event champion.
No One Wants to Bet Mikey
, Mike "The Mouth" Matusow was faced with a bet of 10,000 from his opponent. Matusow then took a $5,000 chip out of his pocket and asked the table if they want to bet that his hand is good. Matusow then folded the and nobody took the bet.Matusow is down to 31,000 chips.
Thorson Dodges One
-- on a board of 
. His opponent was Cornel Andrew Cimpan who held 
. Despite holding the nuts, Thorson was far from in the clear as Cimpan had outs to a flush or a higher straight.The river card produced nothing too eventful when the
fell. Cimpan was left with only 7,500 chips while Thorson moved up to double the starting stack of 100,000.
How Small is Too Small?
He has a friend railing him who is backing him up and said it's all true. Seiver and the friend went on to tell about how he bought the laptop in Mexico City and because he did so, the entire Windows software is in Spanish.
"It's all in Spanish and I don't speak any Spanish at all," said Seiver.
According to Seiver, he's able to regularly play eight tables of poker on it. Not included in the purchase of the laptop were magnifying glasses.
Kleijnen the Early Leader; Mercier Crushed
The flop came down
. Mercier slowed down with a check. Kleijnen fired 10,000 with two blue T5,000 chips. Mercier met him with a call.The turn card was the
and Mercier checked again. Kleijnen moved all in for 33,475. This sent Mercier into the tank for a couple of minutes. He wound up making the call, tabling 
. Kleijnen held the best of it though with the . Mercier was drawing dead and the river card completed the board with the 
.Mercier was left with just 8,000 chips while Kleijnen rocketed to a field-leading 100,000.
Eastgate Back in the Positive
, Chad Batista fired a bet and Peter Eastgate raised. Batista came back over the top and Eastgate called. The amounts were unknown.With the pot at approximately 12,000, the river came the
. Batista checked and Eastgate bet 4,000. Batista folded his face up and dropped to 42,000. Eastgate improved back over his starting stack to 57,000.
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