$25,000 High Roller Day 1 | 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

01-11-2014 22:36 UTC-4

Boyaciyan's Aces Hold Against Koon

Happy_Freaked

Level 6 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Jason Koon just walked away from the tournament area and we went over to his former table to find out what happened. Noah Schwartz was kind enough to give us the information on how Koon was eliminated.

David Boyaciyan raised preflop from the under-the-gun position and Jason Koon called holding . The flop brought and Boyaciyan bet 3,500, Koon raised to 8,600 and the Dutchman came right back over the top to 14,800.

Koon moved all in for 52,000 and Boyaciyan called with . Koon had a big draw but the turn, the , and the river the did not help him turn things in his favor.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Boyaciyan	140,000	90,000
Jason Koon	Busted

Tags: David Boyaciyan Jason Koon

01-11-2014 22:30 UTC-4

Chip Counts

Happy_Freaked

Level 6 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jacob Schindler	235,000	25,000
Martin Finger	150,000	-19,000
Senh Ung	130,000	30,000
Daniel Negreanu	120,000	-15,000
Olivier Busquet	102,000	-29,000
Paul Newey	55,000	-8,000
Robert Tepper	46,000	-14,000
Mukul Pahuja	42,000

01-11-2014 22:21 UTC-4

Lavallee Gets One Back

donpeters

Level 6 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

From early position, Ole Schemion raised to 2,300. Jason Lavallee called from behind him in the hijack seat, and Shaun Deeb came along from the big blind.

On the flop, action checked to Lavallee. He bet 3,800 and won the pot.

Tags: Jason Lavallee Ole Schemion Shaun Deeb

01-11-2014 22:18 UTC-4

Schemion Bluffs Lavallee

donpeters

Level 6 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

From under the gun, Shaun Deeb raised to 2,200. Ole Schemion called from the hijack seat, and then Jason Lavallee reraised to 6,800 from the cutoff seat. Action folded back to Deeb, and he also folded. Schemion called, though.

The flop came down , and both players checked to see the pair the board on the turn. Schemion bet 7,000, and Lavallee called.

The river was the , and Schemion led for 21,500. Lavallee tanked for a couple of minutes, but eventually folded. Schemion quickly turned up the to show a bluff, and Lavallee could only give a half-hearted laugh.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ole Schemion	225,000	29,000
Jason Lavallee	75,500	-20,500
Shaun Deeb	50,000	-54,000

Tags: Jason Lavallee Ole Schemion Shaun Deeb

01-11-2014 22:11 UTC-4

Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Level 6 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathan Jaffe	327,000	27,000
Jacob Schindler	227,000	17,000
Ole Schemion	196,000	64,000
Jason Mercier	183,000	-7,000
Adrian Mateos	179,000	114,000
Mustapha Kanit	178,000	178,000
Martin Finger	169,000	27,000
Daniel Colman	166,000	43,000
Brian Green	154,000	154,000
Dani Stern	147,000	27,000
Daniel Negreanu	135,000	135,000
Micah Raskin	122,000	64,000
James Calderaro	110,000	64,000

01-11-2014 22:05 UTC-4

Chip Counts

Happy_Freaked

Level 5 : 400/800, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dani Stern	120,000	46,000
Rhys Jones	96,000	50,000
Shawn Buchanan	88,000	10,000
Tom Marchese	78,000	-9,000
Alex Bilokur	75,000
Maxim Lykov	74,000	4,000
Vladimir Troyanovskiy	70,000	25,000
Yann Dion	48,000	-57,000
Jeff Gross	45,000	-6,000
Tim West	42,000
Steve O'Dwyer	40,000	-4,000
Bertrand Grospellier	24,000	-13,000
Jake Cody	18,000	-34,000
Davidi Kitai	Busted

01-11-2014 22:02 UTC-4

Gruissem Wins Enormous Pot

Happy_Freaked

Level 5 : 400/800, 100 ante

Philipp Gruissem was just spotted with an enormous stack in front of him while Jared Jaffee seemed to have lost a lot. We asked Gruissem who gave us a seven second recap of the action.

"I raise with aces, he three-bets, I four-bet, he five-bets and I six-bet," Gruissem starts.

"Is that right?" Gruissem asked as he looked over to Jonathan Little who nodded.

"So he calls and the flop is queen-ten-four," Gruissem continued, but he did not finish his story as it was time to play another hand. Little said that Jaffee check-raised all in with and Gruissem's aces held up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Philipp Gruissem	310,000	265,000
Jared Jaffee	40,000	-152,000

Tags: Jared Jaffee Jonathan Little Philipp Gruissem

Level: 6

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

01-11-2014 21:45 UTC-4

Lodden Thinks Is Back; Ausmus Drops An "Absurd" Number

donpeters

Level 5 : 400/800, 100 ante

Antonio Esfandiari always likes to have a good time when he's playing poker. It's in his blood, and he's got his table playing the brilliant gambling game of "Lodden Thinks."

For this installment of the game, former World Series of Poker November Niner Jeremy Ausmus played Lodden. Before prompting the question to Ausmus for him to lock in a number, Esfandiari and his table requested Jason Mercier, who was sitting at an adjacent table, inform them what his absolute favorite food in the world was. Mercier told them it was chicken parmesan. The question prompted to Ausmus was then, "How much would it cost for Jason Mercier to NOT eat chicken parmesan for the rest of his life?"

Ausmus took some time and locked in a number. After the bidding war heated up a bit, Bryn Kenney bought the under on $47,000. Ausmus then released his number and it was massively different than what the table was bidding on... $5,000,000!

"What! $5,000,000?!?!?" screamed Esfandiari, nearly falling out of his chair. "That's an absurd number! Just absurd!"

Everyone began ribbing Ausmus a little bit, and then the table began raising questions as to what the real number was. This is when Esfandiari bet Dan Shak $500 that the real number Mercier would accept would be $100,000 or lower. Shak had anything higher than $100,000.

Mercier was asked what his real number was, and the table made sure to tell him to think and be truthful about it. Mercier's answer? $225,000.

"Yes! Yes!" yelled Shak, briefly popping up in his chair with excitement. "Bang!"

Esfandiari couldn't believe it, and he even said, "I was willing to lose everything on that one."

"$225,000 and I'd accept it right now," said Mercier with a smile.

"Well, you just made me $500," commented Shak.

"For $5,000,000 I'd try and not eat any food for the rest of my life!" Mercier joked with a big laugh.

Tags: Antonio Esfandiari Bryn Kenney Dan Shak Jason Mercier Jeremy Ausmus

01-11-2014 21:41 UTC-4

Greenwood Gets Aggressive

Happy_Freaked

Level 5 : 400/800, 100 ante

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst raised to 1,700 from the cutoff, Jason Wheeler three-bet to 5,000 from the button and the action was now on Max Greenwood.

Greenwood made it 11,000 from the small blind and Scott Seiver went into the tank for a long time from the big blind. Eventually Seiver let go of his hand and so did Selbst and Wheeler.

Greenwood picked up a nice pot without showdown and it seemed like Seiver was certain he folded the best hand.