2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k3
Prize
$1,491,580
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
816
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Juan Etcheverry Leads the Pack Heading Into Day 4

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Juan Etcheverry
Juan Etcheverry

The 175 players that returned to the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event started the day looking to accomplish one goal before moving on to bigger dreams. That goal was making the money and in order to do so they would have to be one of the last 119 standing. They would make the money early in the evening and it would be Juan Etcheverry who ended the day with the chip lead with 1,704,000.

The tension was high as the money bubble approached and chips were flying as Connor Drinan five-bet shoved with {A-Spades}{3-Spades} and was looked up by Chance Kornuth who held {Q-Hearts}{Q-Clubs}. Drinan didn't improve and finished in 121st place. Soon after a crazy hand would see the tournament hit the money when Arne Kern moved all in with {A-Clubs}{K-Spades} and take the lead against Ambrose Ng's {10-Hearts}{10-Diamonds} when the flop came {K-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}. The turn gave Ng some flush outs as it was the {3-Hearts}. Ng would not hit the flush on the river but he would spike a set as it was the {10-Clubs}.

Etcheverry's key hand came late in the day when he doubled through Mario Puccini with the nut flush. Rounding out the top five are Chance Kornuth (1,165,000), Kevin Schulz (1,165,000), Juan Martin Pastor (930,000), and Jim Collopy (889,000). Notables that advanced to Day 4 include Rami Boukai (625,000), Pratyush Buddiga (589,000), Naoya Kihara (509,000), JC Alvarado (490,000), Jason Mercier (447,000), Jonathan Duhamel (266,000), Ole Schemion (147,000), and Shannon Shorr (135,000). One player who advanced was world-famous football star Ronaldo who ended the day with 512,000 in chips. He would win a huge pot at the end of the night when he won a race with {8-Hearts}{8-Clubs} against the {A-Diamonds}{K-Hearts} of Adam Reynolds.

Daniel Negreanu would enter the day with a big stack but could never get anything going and would be eliminated in the money by Pratyush Buddiga when his jacks were dominated by Buddiga's queens. There were plenty others joining Negreanu in coming up just short of achieving their PCA dreams including Pokerstars Team Pro's Leo Margets, Bertrand Grospellier, Andre Akkari, and Liv Boeree. Others to get eliminated were Martin Finger, Jared Jaffee, Will Failla, Marc-Andre Ladouceur, Mickey Petersen, Nenad Medic, Stephen Chidwick, Rep Porter, Alex Millar, and John Hennigan, George Lind, Dani Stern, Shawn Buchanan, Joe Ebanks, and Mike Leah.

The remaining 57 players will return tomorrow looking to move themselves closer to the prestigious PCA Main Event title and the $1,491,580 that comes along with it. Play will resume at noon local time on Monday for Day 4, and PokerNews will be here to provide live coverage from the time they have cards in the air until they are bagging for the night. Make sure to tune in to find out who moves on to Day 5!

Tags: Alex MillarAndre AkkariBertrand GrospellierDaniel NegreanuJason MercierJonathan DuhamelLiv BoereeMike LeahPratyush BuddigaRonaldo