David Peters raised to 13,000 from the cutoff and Pascal Lefrancois called from the small blind. The flop came and Lefrancois check-called a bet of 12,000 from Peters.
The turn brought the and Lefrancois checked again. Peters sized up a bet of 50,000 this time and Lefrancois was forced to ditch his cards to the muck.
Meanwhile, Brandon Steven and Sam Grafton were eliminated, bringing the field down to just 36 players.
The 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure continues today with Day 2 of $100,000 PCA Super High Roller, an exciting event that has attracted dozens of big names and will continue to do so until late registration closes at the start of play at 12:30 p.m. local time.
There's no shortage of accomplished players in the chip counts and two of them are Justin Bonomo and Bryn Kenney. Bonomo is looking to maintain the top slot on the Hendon Mob list while the controversy-marred Kenney hopes to once again pass "ZeeJustin."
Other big names include Europeans Patrik Antonius, Adrian Mateos, Aleksejs Ponakovs and Mikita Badziakouski, Americans Nick Petrangelo, Seth Davies, Chris Brewer, Dan Smith and Isaac Haxton and Canadians Timothy Adams, Sam Greenwood, Daniel Dvoress and Mike Watson, who managed to bag the chip lead with a stack good for 138 big blinds.
$100,000 PCA Super High Roller Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts
RANK
PLAYER
COUNTRY
CHIP COUNT
BIG BLINDS
1
Mike Watson
Canada
830,000
138
2
Aleksejs Ponakovs
Latvia
763,000
127
3
Timothy Adams
Canada
659,000
110
4
Chris Brewer
United States
622,000
104
5
Byron Kaverman
Canada
613,000
102
6
Ignacio Moron
Mexico
572,000
95
7
Nick Petrangelo
United States
550,000
92
8
Adrian Mateos
Spain
545,000
91
9
Seth Davies
United States
472,000
79
10
Jean-Noel Thorel
France
460,000
77
While most players who busted on Day 1 re-bought on a second bullet, there are a few who fell that may hop back into the unlimited reentry event today, including David Yan, Vicente Delgado, Fedor Holz and PokerStars AmbassadorSam Grafton, who couldn't get anything going on Day 1 despite firing two bullets.
Action will kick off on Level 9 with blinds of 3,000/6,000/6,000 and levels will remain an hour length for the duration of the tournament. There will be a 20-minute break every two levels and a 75-minute after Level 14. Prize pool information should be available shortly after the start of play.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is here on-site and ready to bring all the updates heading to the next high roller being crowned.