2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
From middle position, chip leader Pascal LeFrancois raised to 2,700. cation then folded to Walid Raysuli Mubarak Shenadeh on the button, and he reraised to 6,500. Play folded back to LeFrancois, and he moved all in after a minute or so of thought. Shenadeh quickly called and out his tournament life on the line for 40,500 with the ![]()
. LeFrancois had the ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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, and LeFrancois sent over the chips to pay off Shenadeh. With this loss, LeFrancois dropped back below 300,000 in chips.
Micah Raskin raised to 2,500 from early position and Shankar Pillai three-bet to 6,000 from the hijack. Raskin called, landing a ![]()
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flop to the table.
Raskin led out for 6,000, Pillai called, and the
hit the turn where Raskin bet 10,000. A call from Pillai delivered the
river where Raskin bet another 10,000.
Pillai called and upon seeing Raskin show ![]()
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to win the pot.
It appears Max Silver has been using his aggressive nature and big stack to play the role of table captain, but there is at least one player that isn't standing for it, and that's Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes.
From early position, Silver raised to 2,600 to start the hand. Brenes reraised on the button to 9,600, and action moved back to Silver. He quickly folded, and Brenes won the pot.
"No, no, no, no more!" exclaimed Brenes, proudly showing his ![]()
to make it clear that he wasn't going to be bullied.
"You can fold for free on your button," responded Silver.
With around 30,000 in the middle already on the ![]()
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board, Samuel Phillips bet 15,500 into his opponent Yong Wang. Wang moved all in, and Phillips quickly made the call.
Wang tabled the ![]()
for top set and that was very bad news for Phillips holding the ![]()
. The river completed the board with a blank, and Wang won the pot to move to nearly 150,000 in chips. Phillips was left with under 10,000.
Soon after, Liv Boeree got the rest of Phillips' chips, and she's now up to 54,000.
Andrey Shatilov raised to 2,500 from under the gun and it folded all of the way around to Humberto Brenes in the big blind. The PokerStars Team Pro called and the two saw a flop of ![]()
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. Brenes check-called a bet of 3,100 and that allowed the
to drop down on fourth street.
Both players checked this street and the
finished off the board. Brenes bet 3,300 and Shatilov thought for a moment before kicking his cards in. Brenes opted to let Shatilov pick one of his cards, and he turned up the
showing that Brenes had at least two pair of fives and treys.
Brenes took in the pot and now has about 125,000 while Shatilov is running on fumes with about 16,000.
Antonio Esfandiari raised from the button to 2,500 and he was in talks with the player in Seat 9 about some prop bets while the big blind was tanking. The big blind eventually moved all in for 30,000 chips and Esfandiari snap-called.
Esfandiari: ![]()
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Opponent: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Esfandiari knocked a player out.
Both John Juanda and Fabian Quoss were relatively short stacked and both found big hands to make a stand with.
Juanda got the last of his chips in with ![]()
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of Fabian Quoss. The board ran out ![]()
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, ending Juanda's Main Event.
With the board reading ![]()
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, David Peters gets his stack of 41,500 into the middle with ![]()
against the ![]()
of Igor Yaroshevsky. The
turn and
river were safe for Peters, giving him the double up.