The money bubble has arrived at the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, that crucial period of a tournament when every decision gets amplified as players position themselves to enter the next phase of the tourney with a big stack, to avoid bleeding too many chips, or simply to survive into the cash.
Adrian Bussman just put William Pilossoph all in from the small blind and the player to his left called. Pilossoph was all in for 40,000 chips and the showdown went as following.
Bussman:
Pilossoph:
The board ran out and Pilossoph was knocked out and we're now on the official money bubble.
Chris Klodnicki raised to 6,600 from the cutoff and Dario Minieri three-bet all in for 42,900. Action folded over to Marc-Andre Ladouceur in the big blind who thought for a moment before announcing a call. Klodnicki quickly got out of the way and the hands were turned up.
Minieri:
Ladouceur:
Ladouceur was ahead, but Minieri found a glimmer of hope on the flop. Minieri was searching for a spade or a ten on subsequent streets to jump out to an immediate lead. Unfortunately for the PokerStars Team Pro, he found no help on the turn () or the river ().
Minieri was eliminated near the bubble while Ladouceur brought his stack to about 290,000.
Three brothers remain in the Main Event field at the start of Day 3, Max, Samuel and Lucas. They look calm and in control. Their parents, watching from the rail, are a little less calm, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
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