Winner of the $100,000 Super High Roller Eugene Katchalov was all in for 82,500 preflop against Chris Niesert. Katchalov was the player at risk and held the . Niesert held the .
The cameras rolled as the flop came down to give Katchalov a full house. Niesert wasn't happy about the flop, now just about dead in the hand. He began counting out the chips to send over to Katchalov as the turn came the and the river the to end the hand.
With the board reading , Matthew O'Donnell bet 20,000 from the small blind into a pot of about approximately 25,000 chips. Eric Froehlich tank-called from the big blind and the river was the .
O'Donnell checked and after re-sweating his cards Froehlich checked behind. O'Donnell opened for a pair of eights, but they were no good against Froehlich's for a pair of queens.
"This guy [Froehlich] ran me over yesterday," tablemate Calvin Anderson interjected. "You didn't have it that one time you three-bet me, right? Or did you?"
Froehlich just chucked as he stacked his newfound chips and now sits with 650,000.
Welcome back to the beautiful Bahamas for Day 3 of the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event!
Yesterday 645 runners entered Day 2 with their eyes on the prize, but after six levels only 173 players remain. We are in the money, the bubble burst during Level 16 and Marco Johnson was our bubble boy. All players are guaranteed at least $17,500 today, with the first pay jump (to $20,000) coming after the 145th player is eliminated.
Our chip leader is Adam Geyer with an impressive 909,000 chips and his closest competitors are Ilan Rouah (795,000), Chris Oliver (792,500), Harry Kaczka (687,000) and PokerStars Team Pro Chris Moneymaker (650,500).
Other notable players still alive include 2009 WSOP November Niner Eric Buchman (648,500), David "Doc" Sands (617,000), Dwyte Pilgrim (489,000), Faraz Jaka (447,000) and Team PokerStars Pro's Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (123,000), Victor Ramdin (61,000), JP Kelly (254,00) and Pieter de Korver (283,500).
We are set to start at noon local time, but we are unsure as to how long play will run today. Be sure to keep it locked right here with the PokerNews Live Reporting Team for up to the second updates all day!