2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Dan Smith, who's #16 on the GPI ranking and he formerly held the Number 1 spot for 16 weeks, has just been knocked out. Smith has $5,678,299 in live tournament earnings and he will add another couple of thousand to that after his deep run here on the Bahamas.
Smith was all in on the ![]()
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flop for 63,000 when we arrived on the scene as he tabled ![]()
. Smith's opponent, Erik Olofsson, showed ![]()
and Smith was in a world of hurt.
The board ran out
,
and Smith was eliminated.
With approximately 80 players left in the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event it is no surprise to see Vanessa Selbst occupying a spot inside the top 10 in the counts. Having already accumulated an eye-popping $9 million-plus in tournament winnings since 2006, Selbst is looking to add considerably to that career total here this week.
Selbst is one of several pros who have sat down for Michelle Orpe's "Top Ten" list of questions over at Learn.PokerNews, a site dedicated toward providing strategy advice and other useful information to beginning players. Check out how Selbst answered Michelle's questions regarding how she got started in poker as well as her tips for players looking to improve their games.
Norman Balla was all in and at risk for what looked like 120,000 holding ![]()
, but unfortunately he was crushed by Adrian Bussman's ![]()
.
The aces held up as the flop, turn, and river came ![]()
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, eliminating Balla.
Bussman is up to 570,000 chips.
Team PokerStars Pro Angel Guillen is doing quite nicely here on Day 3 as he just managed to chip up some more with only 30 minutes left in the day.
Rudy Blondeau, who's doing even better than Guillen, raised from the cutoff to 13,000 to start off the action. Guillen three-bet from the button to 36,000 and Blondeau made the call.
The flop brought out ![]()
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and Blondeau check-called 32,000. On the turn the
hit and this time Blondeau check-folded to a 64,000-chip bet.
Andrei Konopelko moved all in for 111,000 in early position, and the action folded all the way to Kyle Sorel in the big blind.
"Call," he said excitedly, showing ![]()
.
Konopelko shook his head before showing ![]()
.
The flop fell ![]()
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, giving Konopelko an open-ended straight draw, but the
on the turn took away two of his outs. Not realizing the paired board removed his ace outs, Konopelko still celebrated when the
completed the board, until he realized it gave Sorel a full house.
"Not enough," Sorel said, smiling.
Konopelko was off to the payout desk, while Sorel soared to 1.115 million chips.
Jose Pineda just ended up all in for his tournament life and he was in great shape against Patricio Rojas.
Rojas showed ![]()
and hit a set right away on the ![]()
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against Pineda's ![]()
.
"Oh no," Pineda sighed as he started calling for a seven.
On the turn the
hit and the river brought the
Pineda was hoping for.
"YEAAAAAH!" Pineda screamed off the top of his lungs while many of his opponents celebrated for him as well.
"Why is there no TV crew for this?" Loni Harwood jokingly said, as Pineda broke out into singing Destiny's Child's Survivor.
Pineda locked up a double up with just minutes left before the day was done while Rojas took a little hit.
"Never give up hope!" Pineda finally shouted as he sat back down and stacked his newly won chips.
With the board reading ![]()
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, Roger Teska and Patryk Slusarek checked to Shyam Srinivasan who bet 19,000. Teska check-raised to 64,000, Slusarek folded, and Srinivsan reraised to 150,000. Teska called after a few moments, landing the
turn.
Teska check-called 160,000 from Srinivasan, the
river completed the board, and both checked.
Teska tabled ![]()
for tens full of aces, besting Srinivasan's hand to win the pot.
A short-stacked Zo Karim moved all in from the small blind with ![]()
, and Jorgen Sandvoll Lindebo called in the big blind with ![]()
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flop changed very little, and Karim was drawing dead when the
turned. A meaningless
completed the board, and Karim hit the rail.