$10,000,000 Guarantee Main Event Day 1b | 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

01-08-2014 13:41 UTC-4

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Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

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01-08-2014 13:37 UTC-4

More Familar Faces

Mickey Doft

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Antoine Saout	30,000
Barry Hutter	30,000
Nacho Barbero	30,000
Mukul Pahuja	30,000
Athanasios Polychronopoulos	30,000
Dan Kelly	30,000
Zo Karim	30,000
Tim Reilly	30,000
John Dibella	30,000
Amanda Musumeci	30,000
Anthony Zinno	30,000
Scott Seiver	30,000
Chris Moneymaker	30,000
Roland Israelashvili	30,000
Shannon Shorr	30,000

01-08-2014 13:35 UTC-4

Peters Off to a Nice Start

[user101598]

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

David Peters opened to 300 in middle position, Robert Cheung called in the cutoff seat, and a player defended his big blind. The flop fell , the player in the big blind checked, and Peters continued for 600. Cheung raised to 1,525, the player in the big blind folded, and Peters called.

The turn was the , both players checked, and the completed the board. Peters checked, Cheung knuckled behind, and the American took down the pot with for a flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Peters	38,000	8,000
Robert Cheung	26,000	-4,000

Tags: David Peters Robert Cheung

01-08-2014 13:24 UTC-4

More Faces In The Field

Josh_Cahlik

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Bertrand Grospellier	30,000	30,000
Todd Terry	30,000
Harrison Gimbel	30,000	30,000
Tony Gregg	30,000	30,000
Vanessa Selbst	30,000	30,000
Byron Kaverman	30,000	30,000
Jason Mercier	30,000
David Bach	30,000
Barry Shulman	30,000	30,000
Joe Kuether	30,000	30,000
Sam Cohen	30,000	30,000
Joe Cada	30,000	30,000
Ben Yu	30,000	30,000
David Vamplew	30,000	30,000
Greg Merson	30,000	30,000
Andy Frankenberger	30,000	30,000
Cary Katz	30,000	30,000
Sam Chartier	30,000	30,000
Matt Salsberg	30,000	30,000
Eric Froehlich	30,000	30,000
Vinny Pahuja	30,000	30,000
Shawn Buchanan	30,000	30,000
Chad Brown	30,000	30,000

01-08-2014 13:23 UTC-4

Who Else is Here?

Mickey Doft

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
David "ODB" Baker	30,000
Lee Markholt	30,000
James Joyner	30,000
Sergio Garcia	30,000
Brian Yoon	30,000
David Peters	30,000
Todd Terry	30,000
David Bach	30,000
Jonathan Little	30,000
Erik Cajelais	30,000
Cong Pham	30,000
Jake Schwartz	30,000
Paul Newey	30,000
Ted Lawson	30,000
Loni Harwood	30,000
Allen Kessler	30,000
Barry Greenstein	30,000
Taylor von Kriegenbergh	30,000
Connor Drinan	30,000
John Racener	30,000
Ken Aldridge	30,000
Marc-Etienne McLaughlin	30,000
Curt Kohlberg	30,000

01-08-2014 13:13 UTC-4

Familiar Faces

Happy_Freaked

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Leo Margets	30,000
Mike Leah	30,000
Fatima Moreira de Melo	30,000
Trevor Pope	30,000
Rens Feenstra	30,000
Matt Glantz	30,000
Eddy Sabat	30,000
Mike McDonald	30,000
Steve O'Dwyer	30,000
Dario Minieri	30,000
Matt Stout	30,000
Scott Baumstein	30,000
Niels van Alphen	30,000
Alexander Kuzmin	30,000

Level: 1

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

01-08-2014 12:56 UTC-4

Day 1b of the 2014 PCA Main Event Set to Start

Mickey Doft

Welcome to our Day 1b coverage of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event!

Yesterday's Day 1a session drew 295 entrants and after eight levels of play, 184 players remained. On top of the chip counts is Dylan Hortin with 160,500, followed by Victor Levy with 150,100. Also bagging up solid stacks near the top of the chip counts were Joseph Cheong (128,700), Max Silver (111,800), Alex Fitzgerald (103,200), and Calvin Anderson (88,000). Among the Team PokerStars Pros who made it through were Eugene Katchalov (60,900), George Danzer (47,100), Liv Boeree (43,000), and Humberto Brenes (28,000).

At the moment, more than 350 players are registered for Day 1b and among them is defending champion Dimitar Danchev. Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier, Barry Greenstein, Andre Akkari, Marcel Luske, Marcin Horecki, and Chad Brown are registered and will be joined later by the likes of Daniel Negreanu and Vanessa Selbst, to name a few. Also expected to be in the field today is Fabian Quoss, fresh off of his win in the $100,000 Super High Roller event.

Play is set to kick off at the top of the hour, so keep it here throughout the day for live updates on all of the exciting action.

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