$100,000 Super High Roller
Day 2 Started
2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
$100,000 Super High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Buy-in
$98,000
Prize Pool
$5,724,180
Entries
59
Level
24
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Gruissem Enters Day 2 as Leader
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Day 2 of the tenth anniversary PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller is on the horizon, and your chip leader is German Philipp Gruissem (771,500). Gruissem - who is no stranger to high rollers, winning two in 2011 and earning more than $1 million in the process - was actually forced to re-enter the event after being eliminated by Antonio Esfandiari.
Upon returning, Gruissem tripled the 250,000-chip starting stack, with thanks to a big hand against Phil Hellmuth. Hellmuth, who only lasted about a half hour (and ten hands, according to Jason Somerville's Facebook page), led out on a board of 
. Gruissem moved all in, and Hellmuth made the call. Gruissem tabled 
for a full house, and Hellmuth showed the 
before exiting.
Hellmuth did not re-enter at the time, but has until the start of play today to do so.
Other players who did re-enter include Isaac Haxton, Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan, Cary Katz, Paul Newey, Fabian Quoss, Igor Kurganov, Tobias Reinkemeier, and Bryn Kenney.
Kurganov, Newey, and Kenney all busted a second time, while Haxton will begin Day 2 with roughly ten big blinds.
There are plenty of Team PokerStars Pros still in the hunt for the assumed multi-million dollar payday. Eugene Katchalov (514,500), Jason Mercier (502,500), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (388,600), Vanessa Selbst (382,000), and Jonathan Duhamel (314,000) will all start Day 2 with over 300,000 chips, while Negreanu will begin the day with 238,000.
If there are three more entries, then this will become the richest $100,000 Super High Roller event ev ner, surpassing the 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final SHR, which generated a prize pool of €4,432,500 (roughly $5,790,840).
The cards will be in the air at approximately noon EST. See you then!
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Level: 9
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
Table and Seat Draw
Level 9
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Without knowing where today's late entrants are seated, here is start of Day 2 table and seat draw:
| Table | Seat | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Phil Ivey |
| 1 | 2 | Daniel Alaei |
| 1 | 3 | Jonathan Duhamel |
| 1 | 4 | Bill Perkins |
| 1 | 5 | Vanessa Selbst |
| 1 | 6 | Noah Schwartz |
| 1 | 7 | Tobias Reinkemeier |
| 1 | 8 | Erik Seidel |
| 2 | 1 | Vladimir Troyanovsky |
| 2 | 2 | Ashton Girffin |
| 2 | 3 | Eugene Katchalov |
| 2 | 4 | Isaac Haxton |
| 2 | 5 | Cary Katz |
| 2 | 6 | Olivier Busquet |
| 2 | 7 | Tom Marchese |
| 2 | 8 | Jason Mercier |
| Feature | 1 | Dan Shak |
| Feature | 2 | Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier |
| Feature | 3 | Vivek Rajkumar |
| Feature | 4 | JC Alvarado |
| Feature | 5 | Tom Dwan |
| Feature | 6 | Antonio Esfandiari |
| Feature | 7 | Steve O'Dwyer |
| Feature | 8 | --empty-- |
| 4 | 1 | David Sands |
| 4 | 2 | Jason Somerville |
| 4 | 3 | Justin Bonomo |
| 4 | 4 | Mike Watson |
| 4 | 5 | Nick Schulman |
| 4 | 6 | Anthony Gregg |
| 4 | 7 | --empty-- |
| 4 | 8 | Philipp Gruissem |
| 5 | 1 | Marc-Andre Ladouceur |
| 5 | 2 | --empty-- |
| 5 | 3 | Timothy Adams |
| 5 | 4 | Daniel Negreanu |
| 5 | 5 | Scott Seiver |
| 5 | 6 | Fabian Quoss |
| 5 | 7 | Sam Stein |
| 5 | 8 | Greg Jensen |
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Level 9
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Tournament Director Mike Ward, who has been the TD for all the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures, has given his customary start-of-the-day speech and informed the dealers to, "Shuffle up and deal!"
The cards are now in the air here on Day 2 of the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller.
First Blood To Perkins
Vanessa Selbst, the first woman to ever play the $100K here at the PCA, opened for 14,000 under the gun and cleared the field all the way around to Bill Perkins, who three-bet to 39,000 from the big blind. Selbst made the call and then called a bet of 55,000 on the 
flop.
When the 
turned, Perkins kept the pressure on with a bet of 75,000. Selbst tanked for a solid two minutes before releasing her hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
325,000 | 90,000 |
|
280,000 | -102,000 |
Check It Out
Marc-Andre Ladouceur opened to 13,000 from the cutoff, Jeff Gross, who re-entered today, three-bet to 32,000 on the button, and both blinds released. Ladouceur tanked for a bit, then four-bet to 61,000. Gross tank-called.
The dealer fanned 
, and Ladouceur thought for 30 seconds or so, then checked. Gross checked behind.
The turn was the 
, the two players checked, and the 
completed the board. Ladouceur checked, and Gross grimaced before checking behind.
"I should've bet the turn," Gross announced, tabling two red sevens.
Ladouceur turned over 
for a pair of tens, and won the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
310,000 | 63,000 |
|
185,000 | -65,000 |
Haxton Heads Out
PokerStars Team Online Member Isaac Haxton open-shoved his last 35,000 from early position, and the action folded all the way to Ashton Griffin, who called in the big blind.
Haxton: 
Griffin: 
The board ran out 
, and Haxton was eliminated.
Griffin is up to around 300,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
300,000 | 67,500 |
|
Busted |
SHR Veterans Duke It Out
Neither Erik Seidel nor Phil Ivey are strangers to Super High Rollers. Both men have SHR titles on their résumés, which is why it was so interesting to watch them battle it out in recent hand.
We caught the action with approximately 45,000 already in the pot and a flop of 
. Seidel was first to act in the small blind and led our for 20,000, which Ivey called from the big. Seidel then check-called a bet of 40,000 on the 
turn, and then both players checked the river. It was a wise check behind by Ivey as Seidel tabled 
for the rivered full house and the win.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
315,000 | 65,000 |
|
158,000 | -88,500 |