$5,300 Main Event Day 2 | 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

01-10-2016 14:50 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Younas Yousaf	Busted
Claudio Leonardo Pagano	Busted
Daniel Ghionoiu	Busted
Nikolay Komcharokov	Busted
Antonio Dominguez	Busted
Pavel Machac	Busted
Simon Auerbacher	Busted
Leonardo Carvarge Martins	Busted
Alejandro Rodriguez	Busted
Paul Volpe	Busted

Gorki Oliveira	Busted
Konstantinos Nanos	Busted

David Tuthill	Busted
Paul Snead	Busted
Davide Suriano	Busted

Bruce Yamron	Busted
Ramesh Puradchithasan	Busted
Brian Peterson	Busted
Yann Dion	Busted
Erwann Pecheux	Busted
Richard Wagner	Busted
Shakeeb Kazemipur	Busted
Sylvie Lamoureux	Busted
Angel Penalver	Busted
Paul Dlugozima	Busted

The Old Check-Raise from Gong

Chad Holloway

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Eddy Sabat opened for 2,500 from early position and recieved calls from Poland's Jaroslaw Lipien and Canada's Jiachen Gong on the button and in the big blind respectively. All three players checked the flop, and then Gong checked the turn.

Sabat bet 3,200, Lipien called, and Gong thought for a bit before check-raising to 9,300. That did the trick as both Sabat and Lipien released.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jiachen Gong	82,000 16,100	16,100
Jaroslaw Lipien	50,000 10,600	10,600
Eddy Sabat	40,000 35,700	35,700

Tags: Jiachen Gong Eddy Sabat Jaroslaw Lipien

01-10-2016 14:59 UTC-5

The Bust Out Selfie

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Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

A certain amount of notoriety comes with success in poker, and with $25,239,801 in career earnings, Dan Colman has definitely had success. Earlier today he busted from the PCA Main Event when he shoved all in on the river against JJ Liu. Liu has had her own success with almost $3 million dollars in career earnings.

On this hand, Liu said she raised from early position with and Colman called from the big blind with . There was a bet and a call on the flop, both players checked the turn, and on the river Colman shoved all in.

The river was a , giving Liu a pair and she went into the tank for five minutes, she says. She also said that Colman called the clock on her. She eventually called and busted Colman.

The next time Colman walked by the table, Liu called out to him.

"Dan, can I get a picture with you?" she said.

Colman obliged and Liu snapped a quick selfie and said thanks. Colman wished her luck and was on his way to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
JJ Liu	54,000 54,000	54,000

Dan Colman	Busted

Tags: Dan Colman J.J. Liu

01-10-2016 15:04 UTC-5

Esfandiari Doing His Best To Stay Seated

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Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Antonio Esfandiari is seated with a hand-written note sitting on the rail in front of him. The sign says LUNGE ONlY, a reminder that when he gets up, he has to lunge wherever he goes next.

He made a bet with Bill Perkins that for the next 48 hours, he would only lunge instead of walking. So far he has been lucky, his table hasn't broken and he has stayed around double the starting stack.

On this hand he picked up some chips when he raised on the button to 2,000 and got called by both players in the blinds. He c-bet the flop of for 6,000 and his opponents folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonio Esfandiari	62,000 10,500	10,500

Tags: Antonio Esfandiari

01-10-2016 15:04 UTC-5

Straight for Rabah

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Donnie Peters

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

With about 13,000 in the middle on the board, Carlos Mora Alvarez fired 5,100. His opponent, Fabian Chauriye Rabah, raised to 19,800. Alvarez tanked for a bit, then called, but could only muck when he saw the that Rabah turned over for a straight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fabian Chauriye	198,000 32,000	32,000
Carlos Mora Alvarez	111,000 62,200	62,200

Tags: Carlos Mora Alvarez Fabian Chauriye Rabah

01-10-2016 15:08 UTC-5

Updated Chip Counts

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Donnie Peters

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Phillip McAllister	230,000 176,400	176,400

Keith Ferrera	194,000 115,800	115,800
Steve O'Dwyer	184,000 30,000	30,000

Fabian Ortiz	166,000 66,100	66,100
Guillermo Olvera	165,000 25,300	25,300
Georgios Zisimopoulos	160,000 76,400	76,400
Jason Mercier	156,000 86,000	86,000

Jason Koon	140,000 30,000	30,000

Ian O'hara	129,000 38,100	38,100

Ramin Hajiyev	118,000 41,800	41,800
Dan Shak	110,000 27,700	27,700
Shyam Srinivasan	82,000 900	900
Olivier Busquet	78,000 12,600	12,600

Shawn Buchanan	70,000 6,500	6,500

JJ Liu	65,000 11,000	11,000

JC Alvarado	58,000 21,700	21,700
Michael Wang	58,000 3,500	3,500

Jani Sointula	47,000 14,800	14,800
Vicente Delgado	18,000 110,700	110,700

01-10-2016 15:17 UTC-5

More Eliminations

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Chad Holloway

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Georg Dorsch	Busted
Isaac Haxton	Busted

Siu Chad Ming	Busted
Ioannis Angelou Konstas	Busted
Gilbert Diaz	Busted
Brendon Rubie	Busted
[Removed:17]	Busted
Jackson White	Busted
Norbert Berent	Busted
Rodrigo Motoki	Busted
Guillaume Diaz	Busted
Christopher Bush	Busted
Kevin Eyster	Busted

Sean Trenholm	Busted
Ivan Soshnikov	Busted
Daniel Chutrov	Busted
Larry Hirschfield	Busted
Steven Lilley	Busted
Kevin Falk	Busted
Yi Yang	Busted
Jonas Lauck	Busted

Kieu Lam	Busted
Doru Machidon	Busted
Luiz Higashi	Busted
Diego Dos Santos	Busted

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01-10-2016 15:18 UTC-5

Updated Counts

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Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Anton Astapau	193,800 89,700	89,700
Jason Mercier	155,000 1,000	1,000

Jonathan Little	115,000 81,500	81,500

Vladimir Troyanovskiy	111,000 35,700	35,700
Sam Stein	92,000 48,200	48,200
Fedor Holz	56,600 16,400	16,400

Ryan Riess	55,800 23,200	23,200

Stephen Chidwick	53,000 8,000	8,000

Kevin Schulz	26,100 17,100	17,100

Steven Abbey	13,800 41,700	41,700

01-10-2016 15:19 UTC-5

Mukul Sandwich

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Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Mukul Pahuja just got paid off on the river shortly before the break. The board read and his opponent had placed a bet.

Pahuja raised to 21200 and his opponent seemed to agonize over calling. He called and then definitely felt some agony as he turned over showing he had a set, but Pahuja had rivered a straight with .

Player	Chips	Progress
Mukul Pahuja	73,000 4,100	4,100

01-10-2016 15:20 UTC-5

Zinno Wins One Before Break

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Mohammed Nuwwarah

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Anthony Zinno bet 10,000 from the small blind into a pot of over 30,000 on a completed board of . His opponent under the gun thought only briefly before calling, but he couldn't beat Zinno's for a straight.