$10,000,000 Guarantee Main Event
Day 1b Started
$10,000,000 Guarantee Main Event
Day 1b Started
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.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Leo Margets | 30,000 | |
Mike Leah | 30,000 | |
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Fatima Moreira de Melo | 30,000 | |
Trevor Pope | 30,000 | |
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Rens Feenstra | 30,000 | |
Matt Glantz | 30,000 | |
Eddy Sabat | 30,000 | |
Mike McDonald | 30,000 | |
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Steve O'Dwyer | 30,000 | |
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Dario Minieri | 30,000 | |
Matt Stout | 30,000 | |
Scott Baumstein | 30,000 | |
Niels van Alphen | 30,000 | |
Alexander Kuzmin | 30,000 | |
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Player | Chips | Progress |
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David "ODB" Baker | 30,000 | |
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Lee Markholt | 30,000 | |
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James Joyner
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30,000 | |
Sergio Garcia | 30,000 | |
Brian Yoon | 30,000 | |
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David Peters | 30,000 | |
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Todd Terry | 30,000 | |
David Bach | 30,000 | |
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Jonathan Little | 30,000 | |
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Erik Cajelais | 30,000 | |
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Cong Pham | 30,000 | |
Jake Schwartz | 30,000 | |
Paul Newey | 30,000 | |
Ted Lawson | 30,000 | |
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Loni Harwood | 30,000 | |
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Allen Kessler | 30,000 | |
Barry Greenstein | 30,000 | |
Taylor von Kriegenbergh | 30,000 | |
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Connor Drinan | 30,000 | |
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John Racener | 30,000 | |
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Ken Aldridge | 30,000 | |
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Marc-Etienne McLaughlin | 30,000 | |
Curt Kohlberg | 30,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Bertrand Grospellier |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Todd Terry | 30,000 | |
Harrison Gimbel |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Tony Gregg |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Vanessa Selbst |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Byron Kaverman |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Jason Mercier | 30,000 | |
David Bach | 30,000 | |
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Barry Shulman |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Joe Kuether |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Sam Cohen |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Joe Cada |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Ben Yu |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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David Vamplew |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Greg Merson |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Andy Frankenberger |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Cary Katz |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Sam Chartier |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Matt Salsberg |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Eric Froehlich |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Vinny Pahuja |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Shawn Buchanan |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Chad Brown |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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 |
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David Peters |
38,000
8,000
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8,000 |
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Robert Cheung |
26,000
-4,000
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-4,000 |
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Player | Chips | Progress |
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Antoine Saout | 30,000 | |
Barry Hutter | 30,000 | |
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Nacho Barbero | 30,000 | |
Mukul Pahuja | 30,000 | |
Athanasios Polychronopoulos | 30,000 | |
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Dan Kelly | 30,000 | |
Zo Karim | 30,000 | |
Tim Reilly | 30,000 | |
John Dibella | 30,000 | |
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Amanda Musumeci | 30,000 | |
Anthony Zinno | 30,000 | |
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Scott Seiver | 30,000 | |
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Chris Moneymaker | 30,000 | |
Roland Israelashvili | 30,000 | |
Shannon Shorr | 30,000 | |
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We just spotted a table with four familiar faces, all of which are highly accomplished and not afraid to play big pots. Chris Oliver made name for himself at the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event when he finished second for $1.8 million, and on top of that he has a ton of online tournament winnings.
Chino Rheem has over $7.2 million in live tournament earnings including two WPT titles and a seventh place in the World Series of Poker Main Event for $1.7 million back in 2008.
Chris Moorman surpassed the $10 million in online lifetime earnings this past September, and he also has just shy of three million in live earnings. Moorman's best live result was a runner-up finish in the 2011 WSOPE Main Event for €800,000.
Canadian Jonathan Roy won WPT Montreal in 2012 for $777,903 and last year he came very close to taking down the PCA Main Event. Roy finished fourth for $560,000 and his results over the past 14 months have been nothing short of amazing.
Also at this table is Matt 'Plattsburgh' Vengrin, a very accomplished online player came close to winning a WSOP bracelet in the 2008 $3,000 No Limit Hold'em event for $167,973.
Last but not least we also spotted Byron Kaverman who won the 2011 $5,000 8-Max tournament at the PCA. That win for $320,840 is Kaverman's biggest score to date and he added another big score this past summer when he came in 34th in the WSOP Main Event for $229,281.
There you have it, an entire table full of top notch pros looking to claim PCA fame. The PCA Main Event is one of the highest rated tournaments in the world and for good reason, because you're definitely not going to have an easy time battling against all the professionals.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Matt Vengrin | 30,000 | |
Jonathan Roy | 30,000 | |
Chris Moorman | 30,000 | |
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Byron Kaverman | 30,000 | |
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Chino Rheem | 30,000 | |
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Chris Oliver | 30,000 |