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Despite his near-asleep posture, Dario Minieri has also come out of the gate strong (as usual), sitting now with 52,000. Filling out the over-50K club is Zach 'HustlerGrune' Gruneberg.
2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
2010 PCA Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Total Entries
1,529
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 1,529
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Despite his near-asleep posture, Dario Minieri has also come out of the gate strong (as usual), sitting now with 52,000. Filling out the over-50K club is Zach 'HustlerGrune' Gruneberg.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
. Richey checked before the preflop raiser fired 1,200. The button folded and Richey made the call.The turn brought the
and both players checked. The river was the 
, prompting Richey to fire 2,500. His opponent took about a minute to let his hand go, moving Richey up to 41,000.
. The player was acting out of the big blind position.The river was the
and the big blind fired 7,500. Greenstein wasted little time in making the call. His opponent tabled 
for a full house. Greenstein double checked his hole cards and then mucked his hand. He dropped the 53,000 chips.
While Miami fell just short of a late 4th quarter comeback, ultimately losing the game 30-24, Mercier seems to be fairing much better than his favorite footy team did and is up to 38,000 early on after a recent hand against Todd Terry.
With the board showing
and about 2,100 already in the pot, Terry led out with a 1,400 bet. Mercier then kicked it up to 3,900 and Terry made the call.The last card off the deck was the
and Terry check-called a 6,250 bet from Mercier on the river. Mercier then turned over 
for top and bottom pair, having Terry's 
beat.After the hand, Terry was left with 19,000 in chips.
When nobody was looking, Gloria Balding snuck into the back offices to scope out the players' bags that are given away to the online qualifiers. The PCA has the best giveaway bags of the year, and Glo found out what's inside of them... and how soft they are. Check it out:
Seat 2: Joep van den Bijgaart (Team PokerStars Pro)
Seat 4: William "Weeminer" Miner
Seat 5: Eric Froelich
Seat 6: Bernard Lee
Seat 7: Jonathan Tamayo
The flop came down
and Minieri bet 1,725. His opponent made the call before the 
fell on the turn. Minieri checked and his opponent checked right behind.The river was the
and Minieri fired 6,100. After a few minutes in the tank, his opponent called.Minieri tabled
and the other player mucked his hand as he nodded his head. Minieri's up to 52,000 now.
Katja Thater - 27,000
Greg Raymer - 33,000
Erik Seidel - 39,000
Tiffany Michele - 22,000
Scott Seiver - 27,000
Daniel Negreanu - 32,000
Sandra Naujoks - 28,000
between three players. The first player checked and action fell on Amit Makhija. He bet 1,050 with about 2,000 chips already sitting in the pot. The next player to act made the call as did the first player that checked.The river brought the
and action checked to Makhija again. He fired 1,875 and was called in both spots. Makhija tabled for three sevens and raked in the pot to improve to 39,000.
