2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

$25,000 High Roller
Day: 2
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Event Info
2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
$996,480
Event Info
Buy-in
$25,000
Total Entries
225
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 225
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Yoon Doubles Through Astapau

Level 21 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Anton Astapau opened to 40,000 and called the shove of button Brian Yoon, who had only 174,000.

Yoon: {a-Hearts}{j-Spades}
Astapau: {k-Hearts}{10-Hearts}

Astapau's cards were live, but neither player improved as the board rolled out {5-Clubs}{9-Spades}{4-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}, leaving unimproved ace-high the winner for Yoon.

Tags: Anton AstapauBrian Yoon

Jeff Gross Eliminated in 12th Place ($88,020)

Level 21 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
Jeff Gross - 12th Place
Jeff Gross - 12th Place

Jeff Gross pushed from the button for about 180,000, and Ben Heath shoved and isolated him in the small blind.

Heath: {k-Diamonds}{k-Spades}
Gross: {a-Hearts}{3-Hearts}

The board ran out {2-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}{8-Clubs}{3-Spades}{7-Diamonds}, leaving Gross drawing dead on the turn.

Tags: Ben HeathJeff Gross

Greg Merson Eliminated in 13th Place ($88,020)

Level 21 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
Greg Merson
Greg Merson

Nick Maimone finished what he started just before the break and eliminated Greg Merson shortly after it.

Merson lost to Maimone right before the break when Maimone flopped trips, and the two got all in again after the break.

Merson was eliminated shortly after Michael Kamran who finished in 14th place.

Tags: Greg MersonNick Maimone

Michael Kamran Eliminated in 14th Place ($79,920)

Level 21 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
Michael Kamran
Michael Kamran

Michael Karman was eliminated in 14th place shortly after the break by Dario Sammartino.

The two were all in preflop, Sammartino had {9-Hearts}{9-Spades}, Kamran, {a-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}.

The board ran out {8-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}{q-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{6-Diamonds} and that was all she wrote for Kamran who finished in 14th place, just before former WSOP Main Event champ, Greg Merson was eliminated.

Tags: Michael KamranDario Sammartino

Level: 21

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 3,000

Updated Chip Counts at the Break

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

Nick Maimone Doubles Through Greg Merson

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

On a hand that took both players into the break, Nick Maimone just doubled up through former WSOP Main Event Champion Greg Merson.

Jean-Pascal Savard opened the action with a preflop raise before Maimone shoved from the small blind. Merson called after being in a tank for a few minutes and was ahead with {a-Diamonds}{j-Diamonds} and Savard folded.

Maimone had {a-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}, but would win the pot after the board ran out {k-Spades}{8-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{a-Spades}.

Tags: Greg MersonJean-Pascal SavardNick Maimone

One for Merson

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

From under the gun, Greg Merson raised to 36,000. Jean-Pascal Savard called from the button, and Nick Maimone called from the big blind. On the {3-Spades}{2-Diamonds}{2-Hearts} flop, Maimone checked, Merson bet 48,000, Savard folded, and Maimone folded.

Tags: Jean-Pascal SavardGreg MersonNick Maimone

Kornuth Moving Back Up

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

From early position, Nick Maimone raised to 38,000. Josh Beckley reraised on the button to 85,000, and Chance Kornuth reraised to 171,000 from the big blind. Maimone folded, and Beckley called.

The flop came down {K-Clubs}{5-Spades}{4-Diamonds}, and Kornuth bet 103,000 of the 530,000 he had left. Beckley thought for a bit before Maimone called the clock on him, then folded, and Kornuth won the pot.

Tags: Nick MaimoneJosh BeckleyChance Kornuth