$5,300 Main Event Day 3 | 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

01-11-2016 14:54 UTC-5

Qu Up

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

Boyuan Qu seems poised to make a deep run. On this hand he called a 7,000 Dalton Brinker raise from the big blind.

The flop came and both players checked. The turn was the and Qu bet 8,500. Brinker raised to 29,000 and Qu called.

The river was the and both players checked again. Qu showed and won the hand with a pair of jacks.

Player	Chips	Progress
Boyuan Qu	384,000 37,000	37,000
Dalton Brinker	305,000 35,000	35,000

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01-11-2016 14:46 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Phillip McAllister	925,000 511,000	511,000

David Eldridge	555,000 348,300	348,300

Boyuan Qu	421,000 161,700	161,700
Tony Gregg	394,000 27,000	27,000

Fabian Chauriye	310,000 66,000	66,000
Jason Mercier	285,000 117,000	117,000

Jonathan Jaffe	272,000 6,000	6,000

Shawn Buchanan	254,000 68,000	68,000

Mike Watson	194,000 104,800	104,800

John Racener	182,000 36,800	36,800

Allen Kessler	160,000 30,000	30,000
James Calderaro	128,000 66,300	66,300

David Robinson	65,000 13,000	13,000
Jeremy Ausmus	55,000 17,500	17,500

Olivier Busquet	45,000 50,000	50,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Rory Brown	336,800 196,800	196,800
Fabian Ortiz	315,000 7,000	7,000
Christopher Mcnamara	293,000 35,000	35,000
Kritzer Randy	273,000 164,400	164,400
Jonathan Little	192,000 31,000	31,000

Peder Behr	169,800 85,300	85,300
Jorge Cantos	142,000 24,900	24,900
Michael Newman	134,000 20,400	20,400
Jeffrey Rossiter	99,300 12,000	12,000
Martins Adeniya	86,300 112,700	112,700
Knut Karnapp	66,900 5,500	5,500

Conniff Busts O'Hara

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Remko Rinkema

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

The action folded to Ian O'Hara who moved all in from the small blind for very little chips, and Asher Conniff sweat his cards one by one, calling as soon as he saw the second one.

O'Hara:
Conniff:

The board ran out and O'Hara was knocked out.

Player	Chips	Progress
Asher Conniff	235,000 97,700	97,700

Ian O'hara	Busted

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01-11-2016 14:27 UTC-5

Pound Sends Reynolds Home

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Remko Rinkema

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

After unknown action we saw Robert Reynolds all in and at risk in the following showdown against Robert Pound.

Pound:
Reynolds:

The board showed and Reynolds was knocked out short of the money.

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Pound	375,000 318,500	318,500
Rodger Reynolds	Busted

Tags: Robert Pound Rodger Reynolds

01-11-2016 14:20 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Vladimir Troyanovskiy	254,000 121,700	121,700
Michael Rocco	228,000 128,400	128,400

Vittorio Dicrisco	228,000 134,800	134,800
Jeff Gross	215,000 86,900	86,900

Kliment Roussev Tarmakov	164,000 10,000	10,000
Rumen Nanev	60,800 45,000	45,000
Justin Oliver	46,200 36,900	36,900

Nishijima's in a Tough Spot

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Remko Rinkema

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

Scott Wellenbach raised to 7,500 from the cutoff and Thiago Nishijima three-bet from the button to 20,000 after which Siarhei Melianiuk flat-called from the small blind. Wellenbach called as well, creating three-way action on the flop.

The flop came down and Melianiuk lead out for 33,000 right away, getting Wellenbach to quickly fold.

Nishijima tanked for well over three minutes before folding, leaving himself with 131,000 chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Siarhei Melianiuk	440,000 11,100	11,100
Thiago Nishijima	131,000 41,600	41,600

Tags: Siarhei Melianiuk Thiago Nishijima

01-11-2016 14:15 UTC-5

Zamani Resets the Day, Eliminates Zaichenko

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Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

In the early goings of Day 3 Ben Zamani lost some chips, but he came storming back to his Day 3 starting stack on back-to-back hands.

Hand #1: Robert Kokoska raised to 7,200 and Zamani called. Andrey Zaichenko shoved from the big blind for his last 55,600 chips. Kokoska folded and Zamani asked for a count. Eventually he reluctantly dropped his chips into the pot to call.

Zamani was ahead with and Zaichenko had . The board ran out and Zaichenko was eliminated.

Hand #2: Kokoska raised again preflop to 7,200 and this time Zamani reraised to 14,900. Kokoska let it go and Zamani took another pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ben Zamani	232,000 232,000	232,000
Andrey Zaichenko	Busted

Level: 15

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

01-11-2016 13:48 UTC-5

Rabah Takes Some Off Jaffe Just Before the Break

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Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

As the rest of the players were heading to break, Jonathan Jaffe was facing a tough decision on the river.

The board read and Fabian Chauriye Rabah had bet 35,000. Jaffe called and Rabah turned over pocket queens, , for a full house. Jaffe mucked and headed off to join the rest of the field on the break.