Day 2 Concludes With Mercier Leading The Way
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 High Roller event continued Saturday with the remaining 90 players of the original 151 entrants. The players, staff, and media were settling in for a long day as the field was scheduled to play down to a final table. However, after more than 14 hours of play, tournament officials halted the action at 12 players, who will all return tomorrow to play down to a winner.
Leading the way is chip leader and Team PokerStars Pro (USA) Jason Mercier with 1.023 million. He is followed closely by David "Bakes" Baker who has 853,000 and fellow Team Pros Max Lykov (Russia) with 835,000 and Leo Fernandez (Argentina) with 704,000. A couple other names who'll be returning are Erik Seidel (632,000) and Tom Marchese (728,000).
Along the way, a laundry list of poker pros hit the rail. Some Team PokerStars Pros who failed to survive the day were Alex Kravchenko (Russia), Joe Cada (USA), Sandra Naujoks (Germany), Alex Gomes (Brazil), Andre Akkari (Brazil), Humberto Brenes (Costa Rica), Joe Hachem (Australia), Juan Marceiras (Spain), Johnny Lodden (Norway) and Vanessa Rousso (USA).
Team PokerStars Pros weren't the only names returning for Day 2. Chino Rheem, David Benyamine, David "Doc" Sands, Bryn Kenney, Faraz Jaka, John Racener, Daniel Cates, Daniel Alaei, and Freddy Deeb were just a few of the players who fell short of the money. In addition, the chip leader at the start of the day with 217,000, Ryan "toetagU" Fair, was unable to make it to the money, falling just shy in 20th place.
While these players ultimately came up short, others navigated their way to the money. They included: last year's PCA Main Event runner up, Ty Reiman (16th-$55,490); Brett Richey (15th-$55,490); Ravi Raghavan (14th-$73,990); and Rob Akery (13th-$73,990).
Here is how things will look when action resumes:
Table 1
Seat 1: Max Lykov (835,000)
Seat 2: Jason Mercier (1,023,000)
Seat 3: Matt Affleck (95,000)
Seat 4: Empty
Seat 5: Will Molson (526,000)
Seat 6: Govert Metaal (792,000)
Seat 7: Empty
Seat 8: Matt Marafioti (385,000)
Table 2
Seat 1: Shander de Vries (325,000)
Seat 2: David "Bakes" Baker (853,000)
Seat 3: Brandon Steven (571,000)
Seat 4: Leo Fernandez (704,000)
Seat 5: Erik Seidel (632,000)
Seat 6: Tom Marchese (728,000)
Seat 7: Empty
Seat 8: Empty
The $25,000 High Roller finale is set to resume at 12 P.M. EST Sunday. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be there to capture all the action and eliminations, so sure to follow along and see who will win the $1,072,850 first-place prize.