$100,000 PCA Super High Roller Day 1 | 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

01-22-2023 14:39 UTC-5

Davies Scoops from Thorel on Table 3

Adam Lamers

Level 1 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Seth Davies opened to 2,500 in early position and Jean-Noel Thorel three-bet to 7,000 on his left. The action folded back to Davies who peeled off a flop of .

Davies check-called a bet of 10,500 from Thorel and the action was the same for the on the turn. The completed the board and both players checked. Davies tabled and Thorel was unable to beat it.

Player	Chips	Progress
Seth Davies	280,000 280,000	280,000

Stephen Chidwick	250,000 250,000	250,000

Mike Watson	250,000 250,000	250,000

Aleksejs Ponakovs	250,000 250,000	250,000

Christoph Vogelsang	250,000 250,000	250,000
Justin Bonomo	250,000

Michael Addamo	250,000 250,000	250,000

Jean-Noel Thorel	223,000 223,000	223,000

Tags: Jean-Noel Thorel Seth Davies

01-22-2023 14:38 UTC-5

Greenwood Takes Small Pot Off Hecklen

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Connor Richards

Level 1 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Henrik Hecklen opened to 2,500 from the cutoff and Sam Greenwood flat-called on the button to get the hand heads-up.

Hecklen checked on the flop of and Greenwood fired a bet of 2,000. Hecklen called. Hecklen checked again on the turn and Greenwood sized up to 5,500. Hecklen laid it down.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Greenwood	255,000 255,000	255,000

Isaac Haxton	250,000 250,000	250,000

Adrian Mateos	250,000 250,000	250,000

Mikita Badziakouski	250,000 250,000	250,000

David Peters	250,000 250,000	250,000

Artur Martirosian	250,000

Henrik Hecklen	245,000 245,000	245,000

Tags: Henrik Hecklen Sam Greenwood

01-22-2023 14:36 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Sirzat Hissou	250,000
Vicente Delgado	250,000
David Yan	250,000
Chris Brewer	250,000

Orpen Kisacikoglu	250,000

Byron Kaverman	250,000

Juan Pardo	250,000
Ben Heath	250,000

Timothy Adams	250,000

Sam Grafton	250,000

Dan Smith	250,000

Fedor Holz	250,000

Daniel Dvoress	250,000

Nick Petrangelo	250,000

Shuffle Up and Deal

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Adam Lamers

Level 1 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

The action is finally underway with 29 players taking their seats before the first card off the deck.

Level: 1

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

01-22-2023 14:03 UTC-5

Small Delay to Start

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Adam Lamers

There are currently 14 players registered according to the tournament clock, but the tournament staff are just waiting for some players to show up as the registration desk is having some technical difficulties.

01-22-2023 12:43 UTC-5

The First High Roller of the 2023 PCA Kicks Off with the $100,000 PCA Super High Roller

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Adam Lamers

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure returns to The Bahamas for the first time in four years and the excitement level is at an all-time high for the staff and players. Formerly held at the Atlantis Resort, The 2023 PCA has now found a new home at the Baha Mar Casino and Resort.

Many players will be making the trip to Paradise Island for the infamous PCA Main Event that begins tomorrow and the sought-after PokerStars Player Championship that will get underway next week. However, there are many high-roller events on the schedule with plenty of money up for grabs. The first of it's kind will get started today with the $100,000 PCA Super High Roller and will take place over the course of the next three days.

Many of the world's top poker players are expected to make the trip to the Bahamas so the field for the high-roller events should have a wealth of entries. Coming in as the reigning champion, Sam Greenwood conquered a field of 43 entries the last time this event was held in 2019. Greenwood out-lasted Henrik Hecklen in a heads-up battle to take home the first-place prize of over $1.7 million.

The action is slated to begin at 2 p.m. EST with a total of eight 60-minute levels on the schedule for Day 1. Each player will receive a starting stack of 250,000 chips with the blinds starting at 500/1,000 and a 1,000 big blind ante. There will be a 20-minute break after every two levels with no dinner break scheduled for Day 1.

There is an unlimited re-entry option available for those players who are eliminated with registration open until the start of Day 2. The shot clock will be in play from the start of the tournament with 20 seconds to act preflop while registration is open and 30 seconds to act preflop once it is closed. All later streets will be 30 seconds in length throughout the tournament. Something new that PokerStars is implementing is that each new entry will receive four time banks and then one additional time bank at the end of each level.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the tournament floor to bring you all of the live updates throughout the tournament en route to crowning a champion where millions of dollars will be handed out.

Tags: Sam Greenwood

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