Super High Roller
Day 2 Started
2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Super High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Buy-in
$98,500
Prize Pool
$3,136,000
Entries
32
Level
19
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Haxton On Top for Day 2
Day 2 of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller is here and the quest for the $1,254,400 top prize continues with Isaac Haxton leading the way. Haxton bagged up nearly as many chips as the first-place prize is worth with 1.24 million at the end of the first eight levels. Behind him is Viktor Blom with 875,000 and rounding out the top three is Erik Seidel with 753,000.
As expected, this field drew some of the biggest names in the game. There's still plenty of them remaining including Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Daniel Negreanu, Humberto Brenes and Jonathan Duhamel. Along with that elite group, Mike McDonald, Scott Seiver, David "Doc" Sands and last year's PCA Main Event champion Galen Hall are still alive.
The original plan for the day was to play down from the remaining 18 players until the final table was reached. With the money line set at five, some of the players have expressed concern that they'd like to play down to the money. It's all up to the television production team, so we'll have to play the wait-and-see game before letting you know the final decision on today's schedule.
Below is a look at today's starting seat draw. After two players drop out, the tournament will condense down to two tables.
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Jason Mercier | 514,000 |
| 1 | 2 | --empty-- | -- |
| 1 | 3 | Galen Hall | 380,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Isaac Haxton | 1,240,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | 112,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Tom Marchese | 158,000 |
| 1 | 7 | --empty-- | -- |
| 1 | 8 | Viktor "Isildur1" Blom | 875,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Scott Seiver | 365,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Daniel Negreanu | 346,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Erik Seidel | 753,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Chance Kornuth | 444,000 |
| 2 | 5 | --empty-- | -- |
| 2 | 6 | Humberto Brenes | 609,000 |
| 2 | 7 | --empty-- | -- |
| 2 | 8 | Mike McDonald | 577,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Dan Shak | 182,000 |
| 3 | 2 | --empty-- | -- |
| 3 | 3 | Yevgeniy Timoshenko | 174,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Jonathan Duhamel | 729,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Will Molson | 164,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Sam Stein | 344,000 |
| 3 | 7 | --empty-- | -- |
| 3 | 8 | David Sands | 47,000 |
As you can see from the seat draw, Haxton and Blom — the two biggest stacks in the field — are at the same table. This could amount to some big-time fireworks on the felt, which you won't want to miss. Be sure to stay tuned right here to PokerNews for all the live coverage of the action kicking off at 12:00 PM local time.
Level: 9
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
Let's Get it On!
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Level 9
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Our old pal Robbie Thompson has taken the mic to cue the start of Day 2. With a warm welcome to the spectators assembled, he announced that we'll be playing to reach the final table of eight today.
With the small blind 3,000 and the large blind 6,000, the cards are in the air, and Day 2 is off and running.
About 36 hours from now, one of these 18 men will become 2012's first poker millionaire with a top prize of more than $1.25 million on the line. Not to mention the shiny gold Super High Roller trophy and a bejeweled Shamballa bracelet worth more than $20,000.
Haxton Up Early
First into the pot from the cutoff, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom raised to 13,000, and Isaac Haxton defended his big blind with a call to go heads up.
The flop brought 
and a continuation bet of 22,000 from Blom. Haxton check-called that bet and another 46,000 behind the 
turn. That led them to the 
river, and the two men were content to check it down.
Blom showed his 
miss first, and Haxton tabled 
with a set of deuces to take the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,310,000 | 70,000 |
|
750,000 | -125,000 |
Triple Threes for Stein
Level 9
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
From under the gun, Jonathan Duhamel raised to 12,000. Sam Stein made the call and the flop produced the 
. Duhamel continued with a bet of 18,000 and Stein called.
The turn was the 
and Duhamel opted to slow things down with a check. Stein fired 37,000 and Duhamel called to see the river.
The last board card was the 
, prompting another check from Duhamel. Stein bet 106,000. Duhamel made the call, but when Stein turned up the 
for bottom set, he cards went straight into the muck.
Seidel Tries But Can't
Scott Seiver raised the button to 13,000, and Erik Seidel called from the big blind. The two of them took a 
flop, and Seidel check-called a bet of 25,000.
The 
made things interesting on fourth street, and now Seidel led out with a bet of 40,000. Seiver peered up at Seidel from under his eyebrows, taking pause for a minute or so before calling the bet.
The 
river scared Seidel enough to check it over once again, and Seiver took his cue to make the bet of 60,000. Now it was Seidel who flashed a pensive look for a bit, and he gazed down at the board for a while before surrendering his cards into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
675,000 | -78,000 |
|
425,000 | 60,000 |
Sands Doubles
2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel opened to 12,000 from under the gun, and the action folded to David "Doc" Sands who moved all in for 72,000 on the button. The action folded back to Duhamel, who called.
Showdown
Duhamel: 
Sands: 
The board ran 
, and Sands doubled to more than 150,000 chips.
"You grinded the short stack well," Will Molson told Sands.
"Thanks," Sands responded. Then he noticed there was a boom mic hanging in front of his face. "I learned it on the internet, at PokerStars dot net."
Cheesy, but a double nonetheless.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
480,000 | -249,000 |
|
155,000 | 108,000 |
Mercier Can't Call Blom On River
From under the gun, last year's PCA Main Event champion Galen Hall raised to 12,000. Play then folded around to the blinds where two Team PokerStars Pros got involved; Viktor Blom from the small blind and Jason Mercier from the big blind. Blom reraised to 33,000 and then Mercier four-bet to 66,000. At this point, Hall ducked out of the way. Blom made the call.
The flop came down 
and Blom checked. Mercier bet 36,000 and Blom called.
After the 
paired the board on the turn and both players checked, the 
landed on the river. Blom fired a hefty bet of 184,000 and Mercier tanked. He tanked for about a minute and then folded his hand, allowing Blom to win the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
920,000 | 170,000 |
|
440,000 | -74,000 |
Yev Finds His Double
Under the gun, Sam Stein made it 13,000 to go, and he found calls from both Yevgeniy Timoshenko (button) and Jonathan Duhamel (small blind) to go three ways to the flop.
It came 
, and the action checked to Timoshenko. He settled on a bet of 19,000, folding Duhamel without incident. Stein check-raised, though, and the resulting action left Timoshenko all in for 148,000 total.
Showdown
Stein: 
Timoshenko: 
It was a cooler of a flop, and Timoshenko needed to fade just two outs to double. The turn 
and river 
were blanks, and Stein has been forced to pay off a double. He'd been doing some good work early on to chip up above his start-of-day stack, but that run-in with Yev has knocked him right back down there again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
375,000 | 201,000 |
|
320,000 | -24,000 |