2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
56
Prize
$1,775,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$10,398,400
Entries
1,072
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
50,000

Main Event

Day 2 Started

Day 2 Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerChips
11Matt Dietrich42800
12Evgeniy Zaytsev61300
13Violeta Mccrink27000
14Tarik Keast47700
15Maik Dähling109400
16Veselin Mareshki135000
17Kyle Julius108500
18Yuriy Kozinskiy30300
    
21David Bernstein89300
22Matthew Vengrin30700
23Udo Nager14100
24Marco Caicedo27700
25Tony Bracy44100
26Leo Fernandez94000
28Shane Deller103400
29Ofir Mor85200
    
31Robert Rosen55500
32Luiz Verle47400
33Jesse Huckvale65300
34Arben Zenuni80100
35Ami Alibay42000
36Julius Grund78400
37Steven Musket31100
38Daniel Chevalier56800
39Sam Stein28000
    
41Richard Washinksky74300
42Harrison Gimbel114500
43Alejandro Sanchez Fernandez42800
45Ayaz Manji47600
46Leif Force102300
47Matthew Marafioti47600
49Brent Sheirbon100400
    
51Babak Malekain134800
52Ana George Bogdan9900
53Chauncey Monk50900
54Noah Boeken71000
55Andrew Lichtenberger25200
56WIll Failla49200
57?Arash Moghaddam Maragheh44000
57?Ka Chun Yung31700
58Nikolai Senninger50100
59Jesse Martin17700
    
61Phil D'Auteuil170800
62Russell Carson51200
63Marco Johnson45800
66Stephen Hickey34700
67Dmitry Ponomarev50500
68Jason Pohl47800
    
71Joseph Gallagher44600
72Ville Wahlbeck29900
74Ivan Demidov42500
75Sergei Serafimov79700
76Lex Veldhuis41200
77Byron Kaverman70400
78Harry Touil12100
79Luca Pagano136300
    
81Machiel Turenhout27900
83Elizabeth Bennett-Martin45300
84Dan Wach54200
85Christopher Klodnicki22300
86Sean Jazayeri147100
87Joakim Beaupre115200
89Lars Bischoff27700
    
91?Steve Westlund65700
91?Csaba Gabor52200
92Eduardo Andres Bernal41000
93Brian Jensen50400
94Anton Astapov39800
95Felipe Montenegro45700
96Lasse Aastad Kjøs12100
97Stephen Chidwick88100
98Xuan Liu45500
99Lauren Kling27500
    
102Nick Jamieson38900
103Eric Ladny22600
104Kenny Hicks50700
105David Granados139300
106Sanan Satish67200
107Yannick Gauthier69600
108Mats Kristoffersen24000
109Anders Berg50000
    
111Scott Baumstein7000
112Campan Cristian Marius124100
113Marcio Cid Holanda61800
114Will Reynolds42200
115Eddy Sabat67000
116Potemin Vyacheslav34900
117Rudy Blondeau65200
118Justin Young30700
119Christian Harder20400
    
121Jean Picanco39100
122Fabio Sousa56900
124Luca Moschitta22700
125Jantje Loos51800
126Lars Bonding24700
127Guy Cruickshanks47300
128Vadym Umerenko70600
129Spencer Hudson64000
    
131Shawn Klassen8600
132Simeon Naydenov69000
133Charles Furey91700
134Benoit Galland102300
135Walter Srour Oaquim75900
136Bjorn Nordberg15700
137Jimmy Castaño50500
138Mathew Frankland1
139Scott Glenn66700
    
141Patrick Cronin29600
142Kenneth Smaron56400
143Alexander Zaverukha19000
144Miguel Borrero48300
145Peter Dräxl108700
146Philippe Plouffe90500
147Darya Hulyk81300
148Arnaud Mattern139300
149Eduards Kudrjavcevs18800
    
151Franklin Diaz37600
152Max Leonhard149700
153Jason Somerville12300
154Pavel Chalupka25700
155Zimnan Ziyard38300
156Michael Mizrachi80900
157Liv Boeree35800
158Roberto Bermejo Santos1
    
162JP Kelly93000
163Christian Alfsen19000
164Christian Velasquez30900
165Brian Green47100
166Jacob Bazeley102400
167Joe Serock32200
169Eero Kekäläinen18100
    
171Mikhail Semin39900
172Ricky Fohrenbach26700
175Constantin Florin62200
176Sean Ruane44700
177Emeline Boich1
178Adam Foster126400
179Alexander Fitzgerald8900
    
181Barry Greenstein106200
182Norm Zapczynski35100
183Tommi Eteläperä62100
184Jesse Cohen55900
186[Removed:285]32700
187Denis Bergeron56700
188Adam Geyer89400
189Ruben Visser60000
    
191Erika Moutinho19500
192Tom Lutz73100
193Alexander Venovski193000
194Terje Augdal86500
195Daniel Gomez55700
196Theo Arp34800
197Nikolaos Alafogiannis84100
198Justin Zaki20300
199Juan Manuel Pastor56900
    
201Derek Lerner29000
202Mark Radoja100200
203Jeffrey Forrest112300
204Andrew Badecker16300
205Eli Berg19500
206Robert Kokoška13800
207Antonio Da Costa7800
208Tomas Elexhauser57400
209Roch Cousineau122500
    
211Joachim Kobs60200
212Frederic Penel45500
213Kyle Menne18500
214Andre Schneider29300
215Ken Lawson25100
216Robin Lindqvist51000
217John Andress42100
218Robin Van Gils125900
219Philippe Clerc98800
    
222Alexey Repik220100
223Fredrick Lum28700
224Daniel Shiff85300
225Roberto Rodrigues73400
226Warren Strong82300
227Daniel Bang-Ortmann101700
228Vladimir Faubert113800
229Patrick Monette57100
    
231Tyler Reiman95200
232Grayson Ramage53100
233Dominykas Karmazinas48100
234Ashley Mason36000
236Jonathan Garneau19900
237Peter Eichhardt92900
238Jorge Limon48400
    
241Jacob Meyer18300
242Mazen Naous33300
243Bolivar Palacios53200
244Nicolas Chouity56000
245Ryan Tongen23300
246Rene Murrieta2300
247Michael Frazin99300
248Michele Ugolini95900
249Carlos Sanchez Vegas54000
    
251Don Toporowski39300
252William Luciano59600
253Michael Bena42400
254Thomas Macdonald112700
255James Seletzky38300
256Bill Chen64100
257Michael Telker54900
258Gani Weiss48400
259Andrey Kaygorodtsev18100
    
261Rafael Moraes34700
262Volker Laute62200
263Marc Tschirch176000
265Sebastian Müller69400
266Jordan Morgan61200
267Strus Gleb Igorevich38100
268Amichai Barer60800
269Robert Cooper43900
    
271Tarjei Forus40300
272Daniel Schmieding83400
273Gilbert Diaz58500
274Luke Nettles38300
275Careme Sita22800
276Unknown1
277Peter Ippolito34800
278Adria Maria Balaguer42600
279Roberto Mercer14300
    
281André Bergdølmo58000
282Yann Dion35000
283Anderson Cruz15400
284Heath Herring60000
285Christian De Leon104200
286Evan Parkes45500
287Gualter Salles59100
288Mark Griffiths30600
289Esteban Ripamonti55700
    
291Vilela Albertino22400
292Adam Levy1
293Casey Kastle44200
293Andreas Lippert14700
294Marco Palombi148600
297Steve Gross25700
298Jesus Cortes22400
    
302Ross Myers16600
303Christian Stokkeland28800
304Scott Wilson46600
305Philippe Rousseaux35800
306Gabriel Fernandes43300
307Daniel O'Brien60200
308David Vamplew49300
309Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier64400
    
311Alberto Santana64400
312Maksim Semisoshenko13000
313Sergio Garcia12400
314Ludovic Lacay52900
315Thomas Gabriel68200
315Chad Ming Siu29000
316Oscar Trestini63100
317Eirik Ulversoy48600
318Garri Tevosov133700
319David Benefield79600
    
321Rodrigo Abellán Vivancos53800
322Vanessa Selbst62600
323Yuliyan Nikolaev Kolev149700
324Mike Leah48800
325Matthew Waxman94400
326Jesus Sanchez54900
327Hannibal Higgins41500
328[Removed:163]38400
329Toni Judet39700
    
331Thang Van Nguyen84500
332Konstantin Aleynik65100
333Amnon Filippi63200
334Soren Nielsen28600
335Anthony Gregg70900
336Mikhail Shikhworich81500
337?Jose Quintas99700
337?Madhani Farhan68100
338Kevin Thurman11700
    
342Jesus Gallego Anso36600
343Johannes Heldens103800
344Anton Shamraevskiy86000
345Jan Heitmann89800
346David Assouline44000
347Simon Mattsson1
348Myro Garcia18200
349Jonathan Markovits69300
    
351Marius Pospiech86400
352Ricardo Tavares45000
353Fowzi Baroukh35400
354Jose Manuel Gomez Rebenaque21200
356Thomas Miller21100
357Larry O'Brien112500
358Kevin Bromfield79500
359Andrey Romanov125300
    
361Philip Collins90900
362Paul Esau62800
363Pierre May83200
364Eugene Fouksman40300
365James Moore8000
367Julius Colman55700
368Martins Adeniya69900
369Harm Eiting28500
    
371Anthony Gargano65700
372Gregor Thomas22600
373Jonathan Jaffe182000
374Luis Jaikel83800
376Jasper Wetemans153600
377Franz Ditz27900
379Richard Bruning193100
    
381Konstantin Bucherl76600
382James Calderaro103900
383Sascha Klier14700
384Timothy Ulmer75000
385Tom Mccormick39500
386Kevin Schleiffer14400
387Randy Lew16200
388Elliot Smith107700
389Andrey Zaichenko108400
    
391Shane Schleger54500
392David Brian Bokor26500
393Gabe Patgorski30000
394Predut Andrei Elarion7900
395Michael Beyer12100
396Javier Moragues50000
397Francois Binette107700
398Jamie Rosen65100
399David Bach38800
    
403Jonathan Aguiar31100
404Todd Terry22000
405Ryan Julius135000
406Stefan Poulsen54200
407Joseph Mckeehen48600
408Javier Dominguez52900
409Ana Marquez82700
    
411Raymond Dehkharghani57100
412Carl Louis Slate22000
413Lothar Meier48100
414Adel Jo88100
415Guy Gorelik4400
416Andrew Dean15100
418Dominik Stopka27900
419Mark Defaria31400
    
421Alexander Persson80500
423Daniel Perper41800
424Ryan Schmidt41700
425Osman Mustanoglu94300
426Christian Pereira69000
427Joe Wilamowski37900
428Jens Patzner108400
429Ronny Bergan2800
    
431Larry Hirschfield33300
432Helio Chreem76900
433Jesus Roldan23400
434Darren Elias85700
435Jude Ainsworth103300
436Mihails Morozovs93400
437Blaine Barton30700
438Kambiz Kashi103400
439Jose Brito14400
    
442Mark Herm94300
443Aleksandr Kholmogorov77300
444Oscar Kemps12900
445Adrian Nuñez Paradelo62400
446Kathy Saraf20600
447Martin Jacobson15700
448Sebastian Bachmann72000
449Thomas Sheets46000
    
451Andre De Oliveira16500
452Griffin Benger57000
453Marcel Luske79900
455Thomas Bo Markussen62600
456John Dibella115600
457Harry Kaczka37400
458Pim de Goede57300
459Johan Hermans42700
    
461Guillaume Rivet45600
462Irshat Shaykhov27800
463David Inselberg45500
464Yevgeniy Timoshenko105800
465Simon Christensson62200
466Russell Jones37000
468Kristijonas Andrulis19700
469Martin Kalleberg40100
    
471Rudi Vanheeswijck34100
472Sam Greenwood90100
473Eric Mizrachi58000
474Andrew Brokos38500
475Greg Gokey31200
476Corey Burbick50000
477Micah Smith141100
478Maria Panyak39700
479Martin Debruhl61500
    
481Asim Mumtaz32200
482William Olivieri49000
483Valentino Yasenov Konakchiev29100
484Jean-Nicolas Fortin32700
485Jake Schwartz18100
486Mayu Roca Uribe24500
488Rhynie Campbell59000
489Johan Van Til61200
    
491Demosthenes Kiriopoulos22200
492Aaron Been50000
493Alexandr Kuzmin128600
494Michal Wywrot16200
495Manuel Alvaro Brome Silva26700
496Chad Eveslage80500
497Vincent van der Fluit78500
498Angel Guillen10900
499Michael Dietrich46800
    
501Kevin MacPhee10300
502Yordan Dimitrov34700
503Humberto Brenes29200
504Barry Shulman25600
505Guang Pu Lu17500
506Faraz Jaka129500
508Ioannis Beris47700
    
512Larry Sharp72500
513Roberto Rivera30700
514Max Greenwood117900
515Boris Becker16200
516Javier Gil122300
517David Peters41000
518Will Molson47700
519Paul Muller41800
    
521Matthew Jarvis110300
522Rajesh Vohra99000
523Istvan Birizdo165900
524Morten Christensen44900
525Marcel Bjerkmann166000
526Tobias Hagedorn102100
527Thomas Laviano79800
528Brendan Reid58300
529Tony Viklund96000
    
531Malgin Roman1
532Antti Mattila26100
533Nicolai Henschel17100
534Dario Minieri77100
535Govert Metaal29600
536Cristian Folescu1
537Gabriel Rausch18600
538Alex Kravchenko117200
539Dmitriy Grinenko103300
    
541Ondrej Vinklarek36700
542Chi Tsun Chan21700
543Joris Springael45900
544Adam Coviensky21200
545Sam Chartier48400
546Connor Drinan142700
547Lee Goldman48100
548Mohammed Himedan17200
549Jann Patrick30500
    
551Martin Fournier-Giguere43200
552Andrew Luetchford33500
553Peter Dragar25200
554Alexandre Gaudreau31000
556Bryan Piccioli61900
557Fouad Akli51400
558Dennis Tuttle29500
559Randal Flowers42500
    
561Sameer Aljanedi51200
562Davidl Boyaciyan41900
563Mikael Viuff Hansen57300
564Christos Arvanitis25900
565Pat Pezzin92900
566Jonathan Grubb47300
567Doug Gosse42000
568Carlos Mortensen54700
569Miguel Alvarez De Lugo Drayer37100
    
571Salvatore Bianco192400
572Viacheslav Igin67500
573Rafael Golka33500
574Daniel Walter88400
575Jack Schanbacher76100
576Christian Kern27700
577Hoyt Corkins58400
578Daniel Reijmer61600
579Jaime Grubel40500
    
581Nicolas Walters66600
582Stephen Reynolds96300
583Josh Brantley60900
584Marco Baldini33600
585Zachary Clark27200
586Miguel Angel Ventura18700
587Shawn Buchanan34200
588Lawrence Greenberg132600
589Tom Marchese45600
    
591Curt Kohlberg11300
592Frank Kassela100000
593Andres Chacon104900
594Allon Brock Allison75400
595Ariel Albilia37800
596Enrique Leigue22900
597David Rheem182900
598Greg Debora37700
599Sean Getzwiller68400
    
601David Robinson35100
602Yury Gulyy18500
603John Racener49700
604Nicholas Grippo109400
605Richard Wagner35600
606Galen Hall56900
607Todd Hunter81300
608Jon Turner66900
609Matthew Salsberg56400
    
611Seth Davies24200
612Odilon Correa Machuca83400
613Mikhail Shalamov15300
614Fuad Rahimov37700
615Dominik Nitsche16500
616Joao Nunes85800
617Mark Drover88200
618Francisco Benitez31100
619Daniel Walker19300
    
622Brian England47100
623Pascal Turcotte33100
624Tommie Janssen17100
625Sudarikov Alexey88900
626Martin Mathis63000
627Erik Cajelais38700
628Artem Kachnyy65900
629Joeri Van Der Sman43200
    
631Tony Ranis90000
632JC Alvarado107200
633Victor Ramdin111000
634Dan Hirleman50000
635Stanislovas Kavoliunas81300
636Joseph Levy87200
637Emilio Harraka36700
638Tommy Vedes76400
639Ori Miller86500
    
641Mulaj Shpetim102800
642Vinny Pahuja67800
643Antonio Luft48900
643Dennis Phillips36100
644Torsten Otte44800
646Jannick Wrang97900
647Daniel Alcazar67100
649Francisco Picasso50900
    
651Todd Flanagan24500
652Eduardo Santi32400
653Eric Levesque25700
654David Farkas18400
655Antonio Matias82200
656Tomasz Horecki80400
657Antonio Scaramazza45500
658Ari Engel118700
659Eric Wasserson67000

It's Day 2!

Alexey Repik
Alexey Repik

Welcome back our coverage of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure from the larger-than-life Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island.

We began with a total of 1,072 players across the two starting flights, and about half of them have already fallen. Just 544 of them will return today for a pretty short six-level day.

Alexey Repik crushed the Day 1a flight to bring the biggest stack into this Day 2, and the Day 1b big stack Alex Venovski begins in third place overall. Thanks to a monster pot late last night, Chino Rheem finds himself in the top five, and Jonathan Jaffe is right behind him in sixth.

Team PokerStars is still well represented too, and Arnaud Mattern is the big stack of the family. The first half of his Day 1b was monstrous, and he was able to put it in cruise control from then on and bag up about 140,000 chips. Others still in the mix include Luca Pagano, Alex Kravchenko, Victor Ramdin, Barry Greenstein, and our favorite diminutive Italian, Dario Minieri.

We're getting pretty close to our noon starting time, so don't wander off on us. Day 2 is at hand!

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Veldhuis Demolished

The bad news hits Lex
The bad news hits Lex

With the action folded around through the button, small blind Lex Veldhuis opened to 2,500, and Byron Kaverman three-bet to 5,800 in the big. Veldhuis had just over 40,000 to shove with, and Kaverman made the quick call with the covering stack and the dominating ace. Veldhuis could only show up {A-} {6-}, and Kaverman's {A-} {K-} held to send the Dutchman to the showers early.

Player Chips Progress
Lex Veldhuis nl
Lex Veldhuis
Busted

Tags: Lex Veldhuis

Hudson Jams Flop

When we arrived at the table, Spencer Hudson was all in for 46,500 over a bet of 12,500 from his opponent on the {7-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds} board. Hudson sat and waited motionless for a couple minutes while his opponent tanked, but the player eventually folded and let Hudson take the pot without having to go to showdown. Hudson is now up to 83,000 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
Spencer Hudson us
Spencer Hudson
83,000

Tags: Spencer Hudson

Kings for Smith

One player was all in for a approximate 25,000-chip main pot while Elliot Smith and James Calderaro were still in action with an 18,000-chip side pot up for grabs on the {Q-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{4-Hearts} board. Smith bet 16,000 and Calderaro called.

The river was the {J-Clubs} and Calderaro was faced with a bet of 24,000 from Smith. After a minute, Calderaro called. Smith tabled the {K-Hearts}{K-Clubs} and Calderaro mucked his hand.

Player Chips Progress
Elliot Smith ca
Elliot Smith
155,000 47,300
James Calderaro us
James Calderaro
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
30,000 -73,900

Tags: Elliot SmithJames Calderaro

Roothlus Builds a Boat

We just walked past Adam "Roothlus" Levy to see him stacking up a big pot to move up over 200,000. We asked him what happened, and he gave us the short-and-sweet version:

"Hit a boat. Got paid."

After starting the day with about 110,000 chips, Levy suddenly finds himself with 205,000 and a spot in the top five.

Player Chips Progress
Adam Levy us
Adam Levy
205,000 92,900

Tags: Adam Levy