Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
$25,000 PokerStars NL Hold'em Players Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$25,000
Prize Pool
$26,455,500
Entries
1,039
Level
36
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
600,000
Players Left 1 / 1,039
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Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Scott Stewart opened for 1,800 in one of the last hands in Level 7, Farid Jattin made it 5,800 in the next seat over in the hijack, and then Esther Taylor crammed from the cutoff for 12,700. Stewart folded and Jattin called.
Taylor turned over 
and Jattin faked like he was mucking then showed 
.
"It was a pleasure playing with you," he joked.
The reverse jinx didn't work as the board ran out 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
148,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
||
|
125,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
||
|
29,100 | |
|
||
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Mike Watson opened early and quickly called a shove from Chad Holloway, who had around 20,000 on the button.
"Uh-oh," Holloway said.
He was indeed in bad shape with 
against 
. The 
brought a little bit of hope for Holloway but the 
turn and river just gave him an inferior flush.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
152,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
||
|
Busted | |
|
|
||
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Joining the action on the 
flop, Dylan Wilkerson and Piotr Nurzynski invested 2,200 to see the 
turn. Wilkerson bet 3,200 and picked up a call.
After the 
river, Wilkerson bet 8,100 and Nurzynski just called to get shown the by Wilkerson. Nurzynski had that beat with and raked in the pot. Further notables of the same table and their respective chip counts can be found below.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
|
|
||
|
120,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
||
|
100,000 | |
|
|
||
|
80,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
||
|
60,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
||
|
20,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
|
|
||
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
The action folded to Cary Katz in the small blind and he just limped in. The big blind raised it up to 4,000 and Katz countered with a re-raise to 12,000.
His opponent thought for a minute and then stuck in a four-bet to 27,500. Now it was Katz's turn to do some thinking as he counted out the chips to call before sizing up the rest of his stack. Katz eventually decided to go with it as he pushed all in for around 62,000 which forced his opponent to quickly fold.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
90,200 | |
|
|
||
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
"You just missed a big one," Aaron Duczak said with a dry smile on the face and on his way out of the tournament area.
"I lost aces versus kings against David Paredes, king on the river," Duczak continued and Paredes confirmed what had happened.
Paredes said he had folded kings preflop to Duczak earlier on and now "wasn't good enough" to fold them.
That being said, Paredes moved up to more than three times the starting stack, joining the big stacks in the final level of the night.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000 | |
|
|
||
|
100,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
95,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
||
|
22,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
Busted | |
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Marius Gierse shoved all in from middle position for 41,700 facing a bet of what looked like 16,000 from a player on the button, who put in a call after confirming the count.
Marius Gierse: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
, so Gierse faded a turned flush draw to double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
85,900 |
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Three players were still in the hand on a board reading 
. The big blind checked and Gus Hansen bet 7,500 from middle position into a pot of around 11,000.
Jesse Sylvia raised to 18,500 on Hansen's left and the big blind was left shaking his head as his cards headed for the muck. Hansen went into the tank for a couple of minutes before announcing all in and Sylvia quickly called off another 30,800.
Jesse Sylvia: 
Gus Hansen:
Sylvia just needed to dodge another ace to score a double up and the 
on the river proved to be good enough. Hansen sent his chips to the left and fell back below the 100,000 mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
110,200
46,200
|
46,200 |
|
|
||
|
98,500
51,500
|
51,500 |
|
||
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
With some 40,000 in the middle and the completed board showing 
, Pavel Plesuv was put to the test by Pablo Melogno and had just 13,600 behind when facing the jam. Plesuv reluctantly called and Melogno immediately tapped the table, revealing 
for a bluff while Plesuv scored the double with to move back above the starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
67,000
15,400
|
15,400 |
|
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