2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

$25,000 PokerStars NL Hold'em Players Championship
Day: 3
Event Info

2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a5
Prize
$5,100,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$25,000
Prize Pool
$26,455,500
Entries
1,039
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
600,000

Baumstein, Liperis Atop Counts With 38 Left in PSPC

Level 24 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Scott Baumstein
Scott Baumstein

The biggest $25K tournament in poker history is down to just five tables, as 38 players remain in contention for the $5.1 million first-place prize at the PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold'em Championship.

Leading the way into Day 4 will be a pair of direct buy-ins from opposite sides of the Atlantic, all but deadlocked at the top of the counts. American Scott Baumstein and the U.K.'s Yiannis Liperis bagged 4,240,000 and 4,210,000, respectively, making them the only players north of 4 million heading into the penultimate day of the event.

"It feels good," Baumstein said of the position he's in. "This is definitely a good tournament to run well in.

"I was chipping up pretty much all day. I lost an all-in near the end then made a run at it and won a big flip versus Farid [Jattin]. I was actually surprised he was as strong as he was, but it worked out for me."

The flip in question occurred in Level 23 (15,000/30,000/30,000). Baumstein made it 75,000 in the cutoff and the start-of-day leader three-bet to 320,000 out of the big blind. Baumstein came back with 775,000 and Jattin ripped it in for just under 2 million.

Baumstein called with queens and got a fairly easy hold against ace-king as nothing on the board materialized to threaten him.

"I was sweating that flip pretty hard," he admitted with a smile. "That was a big one. From what I understood, it was the biggest pot of the tournament."

As for Liperis, he got there on a big combo draw against the top two pair of Yan Li to move over 1.8 million. Then, he hit another nut flush after calling a sizable turn bet against Jonathan West, who couldn't find a fold on the river with a hand that never got shown down despite a river shove and a call.

Meanwhile, nine Platinum Pass winners still remain in the field heading into Day 4. While Mikita Badziakouski — he of over $20 million in live cashes — advancing is hardly a Cinderella story, there are still several players for whom a $5.1 million payday would hardly seem imaginable.

Mikita Badziakouski
Mikita Badziakouski is trending toward another big payday.

Ramon Colillas, Adrian Samu, Atanas Pavlov, Marc Rivera, Michael Roboniek and Jacqueline Burkhart all have $100,000 or less in live cashes and would make positively Moneymaker-esque stories were they to ship the PSPC.

Day 3 also saw the money bubble burst early on, and nearly 150 have already cashed payout tickets. Bill Perkins, Dylan Linde, Christoph Vogelsang, Ryan Riess and all three of Sam, Luc and Max Greenwood were among those getting paid.

The remaining 38 players gather for Day 4 at noon local time on Wednesday. Play continues at 25,000/50,000/50,000 with the plan to play to at least eight players, possibly longer if time allows. Come back to PokerNews to find who those few will be.

Day 4 Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerCountry Chip CountBig Blinds
11Marvin RettenmaierGermany 630,00013
12Rui SousaPortugal 1,105,00022
13Pedro PadilhaBrazilPlatinum Pass winner1,315,00026
14Scott BaumsteinUnited States 4,240,00085
15Scott StewartUnited States 1,120,00022
16Adrian Echave SamuSpainPlatinum Pass winner1,265,00025
17Jonathan WestUnited States 280,0006
18Martins AdeniyaUnited Kingdom 1,545,00031
       
21Jake SchwartzUnited States 1,530,00031
22Filipe OliveiraPortugal 640,00013
23Jack O'NeillUnited Kingdom 2,525,00051
24Griffin BengerCanada 1,560,00031
25Dan O'BrienUnited States 1,765,00035
27Marc PerraultCanada 1,935,00039
28Talal ShakerchiUnited Kingdom 1,330,00027
       
31Tony GreggUnited States 905,00018
32Louis BoutinCanada 3,040,00061
33Luis FariaPortugal 1,155,00023
35Luke MarshUnited Kingdom 2,065,00041
36Florian DutaRomania 1,305,00026
37Jacqueline BurkhartUnited StatesPlatinum Pass winner660,00013
38Kristen BicknellCanada 1,115,00022
       
41Joao BarbosaPortugalPlatinum Pass winner1,780,00036
42Ramon ColillasSpainPlatinum Pass winner2,895,00058
43Farid JattinColombia 640,00013
44Mikita BadziakouskiBelarusPlatinum Pass winner1,910,00038
45Julien MartiniFrance 3,250,00065
46Samuel TsehaiCanada 1,395,00028
47Sosia JiangNew Zealand 1,515,00030
48Marc RiveraPhilippinesPlatinum Pass winner865,00017
       
51Yiannis LiperisUnited Kingdom 4,210,00084
52Jason KoonceUnited States 2,235,00045
53Evan MathisUnited States 910,00018
54Chris JohnsonUnited States 1,480,00030
55Atanas PavlovBulgariaPlatinum Pass winner1,070,00021
56Laurynas LevinskasLithuania 895,00018
57Michael RobionekGermanyPlatinum Pass winner720,00014
58Luigi KnoppersNetherlands 2,715,00054

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