$25,000 High Roller Day 2 | 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

01-14-2015 01:31 UTC-4

Queens for Heimiller

donpeters

Level 20 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Bryn Kenney opened to 35,000 from under the gun, and action folded to Jean-Pascal Savard in the small blind. He reraised to 104,000, and then Dan Heimiller kicked it up to 275,000 from the big blind. Kenney folded, and Savard went into the tank. He eventually folded, and Heimiller won the pot.

"Oh man, I didn't really want to play these for all of my chips," said Heimiller, turning over the . "I was sizing up your stack and mine, but I guess I had the best hand."

Tags: Jean-Pascal Savard Dan Heimiller Bryn Kenney

01-14-2015 01:35 UTC-4

End of Day Chip Counts

[user272102]

Level 20 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jean-Pascal Savard	2,433,000 -67,000	-67,000
Oleksii Khoroshenin	2,256,000 -194,000	-194,000

Dan Heimiller	2,123,000 -27,000	-27,000

Dominik Nitsche	1,465,000 90,000	90,000

Ilkin Garibli	1,410,000 90,000	90,000
Lee Markholt	836,000 56,000	56,000

Nick Petrangelo	800,000 -25,000	-25,000

Scott Seiver	761,000 -174,000	-174,000

Bryn Kenney	610,000 90,000	90,000

Joe Kuether	520,000 -5,000	-5,000
Faraz Jaka	368,000 -372,000	-372,000

01-14-2015 01:51 UTC-4

Savard Leads Final 11 in Record-Setting PCA High Roller

Josh_Cahlik

Level 20 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

The penultimate day of the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has come to a close and with it Day 2 of the $25,000 High Roller. The day began with 117 returning players and registration remained open for new entries and re-entries up until the start of play. After ten full levels of play just 11 players remained with Jean-Pascal Savard leading the way.

The day kicked off with poker's elite hitting the felt with the hopes of winning a slice of this massive prize pool. By the time registration closed, the event earned a total of 269 entries for a record-setting PCA High Roller. Interestingly enough, this also became the seventh largest $25,000 buy-in event in poker history. The total prize pool amounted to $6,456,000 with the top 39 players making the money. Each player to make the money was guaranteed a payday of at least $44,540, while first place was guaranteed an astounding $1,294,460.

Play kicked off at a rapid pace with players flying toward the rail in elimination. Some of the players to exit before the money bubble was reached were Eugene Katchalov, Jason Koon, Aaron Massey, Mike McDonald, Shannon Shorr, Tony Gregg, Dan Shak, and reigning champion Jake Schindler.

The quick pace continued through the money bubble, as it burst before the field could even begin hand-for-hand play. A short-stacked Jeff Rossiter was eliminated at the hands of Zvi Stern. Simultaneously, Paul Volpe was eliminated from another player in the room to guarantee the top 39 players in the room a payday.

While the field of this event was stacked with some of the top poker players in the world, some of the more notable names to make the money include Igor Kurganov (30th), Darren Elias (29th), Davidi Kitai (25th), Jonathan Karamilikis (24th), Niall Farrell (21st), Garrett Greer (17th), and Taylor Paur (15th).

Team PokerStars Pro also had a fair showing in this event with three of their team members making the money. Those to cash include Jake Cody (32nd), Andre Akkari (16th), and Daniel Negreanu (14th). Negreanu had a spectacular clash with Dan Heimiller toward the end of the night that resulted in the former's elimination from play. On a flop of , Heimiller led out with a bet of 60,000. Negreanu came over the top for 175,000 and Heimiller thought a moment before announcing that he was all in. Negreanu called for his tournament life of roughly 250,000 more and rolled over for top two pair. Hemiller showed an open-ended straight draw with . In the end, the fell on the turn and the spiked the river to give Heimiller a winning straight and eliminate KidPoker from play. Heimiller rode that momentum to finish the night third in chips with 2.123 million.

Play resumes at 12 p.m. local time where the final 11 runners will play until a champion is crowned. As always, PokerNews will be on hand to provide all of the latest from this record-setting event!

Tags: Jean-Pascal Savard

$25,000 High Roller

Day 2 Completed