2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
$2,300,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$15,132,000
Entries
1,560
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
25,000

Katchalov Doubles

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

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 {3-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}. Niesert held the {A-Spades}{Q-Spades}.

The cameras rolled as the flop came down {10-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{3-Spades} 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 {2-Spades} and the river the {8-Hearts} to end the hand.

Katchalov is back to around 175,000 now.

Tags: Eugene KatchalovChris Niesert

Froehlich Had it This Time

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

With the board reading {q-Clubs}{7-Spades}{8-Spades}{5-Clubs}, 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 {j-Hearts}.

O'Donnell checked and after re-sweating his cards Froehlich checked behind. O'Donnell opened {a-Diamonds}{8-Hearts} for a pair of eights, but they were no good against Froehlich's {q-Diamonds}{10-Hearts} 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.

Tags: Eric Froehlich

Play Ball

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

The cards are in the air, and Day 3 is a go. The plan today is to play six 75-minute levels or down to 48 players, whichever comes first.

Level: 17

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 500

Day 3 of the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event

Chip leader Adam Geyer
Chip leader Adam Geyer

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!

Tags: Team PokerStarsAdam Geyer

Day 3 Seat Draw

PlayerTableSeatChips
Nathan Schoo11568500
Grayson Ramage12331000
Peter Valente13154000
Bruno De Oliveira Severino14158000
Brian Zimcosky15285500
Ilan Rouah16795000
Spencer Hudson17134000
David Burn18282500
    
Max Greenwood21229000
Eric Buchman22648500
Michael Kaiser23232500
Walid Bou-Habib24403000
Thomas Finneran25132000
Philippe Plouffe26212500
Bernard Lee27149000
Chino Rheem2888000
    
Chad Eveslage31469000
Olivier Busquet32185500
Hoyt Corkins33148500
Bahbak Oboodi34596500
Rory Chinn35254500
Lawrence Greenberg36104000
Mohsen Tayfeh3747500
Jesse Martin38290000
    
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier41123000
Joe Le4290000
Michael Gagliano43174000
--empty--440
Michael Pesek45240500
David Tuthill46393500
Roberto Rodrigues47200000
Erika Cerasti48101000
    
Yuval Bronshtein51182500
Greg Hobson52359500
Daniel Reijmer53336500
Joseph Chaplin54195000
John Spadavecchia55244500
Sean Nolan56167000
Greg DeBora57242500
John Andress58158500
    
Haykel Vidal61333000
Oleg Perepletchikov62641500
Joel Patchell63190000
Georges Yazbeck643000
Tamas Lendvai6598000
Ana Marquez66480000
Edward Sabat67182500
Andrea Tringali68255000
    
Marcio Barbieri71209500
Cornel Cimpan7248000
Rudi Johnsen73419500
Aaron McCready74331500
Richard Mask75186500
Aaron Overton76188000
Raffi Don Dayian77393000
Paulo Rink78354500
    
Dwyte Pilgrim81489000
Timothy Finne82258500
Rafael Golka83202000
Tomer Aminpour84205000
Martin Mathis85368500
Bolivar Palacios86358500
Alek Givotovsky87388000
Aaron Schaff88144000
    
Dmitriy Stelmak91247000
Michael Binger92100500
Max Lehmanski93361500
Derek Boundy94279000
Acsinia Kish9572500
Kim Frederikson96410500
Sami Aro97247000
Nicolas Hahn98395500
    
Edgaras Stusevas101300500
--empty--1020
JP Kelly103254000
Max Weinberg104180500
Darren Stater10569000
Charlie Hook106445000
Benjamin Barrows10787000
Juan Monclus108119000
    
Masa Kagawa111247000
Scott Ward11286500
Tristan Wade11369000
Anthony Guetti114267500
David Sands115617000
Javier Tazon116118500
Mike Sowers117506000
Toby Lewis118402500
    
Robert Akery121424000
Jaime Kaplan122344500
Matthew O'Donnell123546000
Eric Froehlich124595500
Johnathan Cuevas125108000
Calvin Anderson126288500
Edward Pham127257000
Frank Calo128200000
    
Casey Jarzabek131134000
Andrey Bondar13288000
Zuzhao Yang133277000
Jiøí Kulhánek134243500
David Robinson135500500
Adam Geyer136909000
Alexander Haber137184500
Sander Jansen13854500
    
Dan Heimiller141135500
Loic Blarez142470000
Harry Kaczka143687000
Yulius Sepman144330000
Marco Esposito145209000
Clark Hamagami146307500
--empty--1470
Yves Sy148314000
    
Alan Gould151201000
Davide Nughes152463500
Jake Cody153357500
--empty--1540
Brandon Meyers155303000
William Givens156354000
Kyriacos Dionysiou15781000
Jeff Galati15867500
    
Simon Taberham161210000
--empty--1620
Matt Lichtie163141000
Alexis Fourcade164114500
Hernan De Leon165528000
Jean-Claude Moussa166115000
Galen Hall167188000
Sam Stein168140500
    
Martin van Gelder171285500
--empty--1720
Eugene Katchalov17387000
Chris Niesert174199500
Wesley Wiemes175387000
Victor Ramdin17661000
Alex Santiago177467000
Redmond Lee178196000
    
Bryan Colin181306000
Vitaly Tolokonnikov182100500
James St. Hilaire183208500
Iulian-Georgian Ruxandescu184225000
--empty--1850
Dana Kellstrom186211500
Nicholas Kamen187406000
Pavel Zuev188172500
    
Alex Brenes191136500
Robert Cezarescu19293000
Steven Burkholder193171500
Gregory Baksic194203500
Scott Wilson195330500
Asier Flores196190500
Josh Kay197169000
Guillaume Gignac198554000
    
David Boughner201192000
Eric Beren202280000
--empty--2030
Andrey Danilyuk204174000
Pieter de Korver205283500
Faraz Jaka206447000
Matt Wood207167500
Pablo Martin-Romo Ruiz208129000
    
Jonathan Tamayo211381000
Ryan Franklin212109500
Franco Brunetti213332000
Shawn Busse214111500
Josh Bergman215610000
--empty--2160
Scott Veitzer217164000
Radwan Khuri218139500
    
Chris Oliver221792500
Ted Lawson22270000
--empty--2230
Tom Grigg224265500
Chris Moneymaker225650500
Caio Pimenta226306000
Nikolai Yakovenko227204500
Steven Curtin228375000
    
Anton Ionel231304500
Thomas Middleton232410500
Ben Klier23392000
--empty--2340
Jonathan Jaffe235449000
Shayne Khanna23695500
Nathan Ross23775000
Louis-Samuel Pouliot238159000

Main Event

Day 3 Started