$50,000 Single-Day High Roller | 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas

01-09-2017 17:10 UTC-4

Out and In

Webjoker

Level 8 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Daivd Peters has been eliminated twice and can't buy back in anymore. Lawrence Greenberg and Daniel Dvoress have also busted and are not currently in the field. Murad Akhundov, Connor Drinan and Bryn Kenney are back in.

The total amount of entries is up to 65 now and 40 players currently have chips in front of them. 17 reentries have been made. Registration is open till the end of the break that starts after the next level ends.

Player	Chips	Progress
Murad Akhundov	100,000	100,000
Connor Drinan	100,000	100,000
Bryn Kenney	100,000	100,000
David Peters	Busted
Daniel Dvoress	Busted
Lawrence Greenberg	Busted

Level: 8

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

01-09-2017 17:04 UTC-4

Kanit's Brain Can Do It

MrPaulSeaton

Level 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Mustapha Kanit has put Sam Greenwood into the cage right in the middle of a game of 'Who's the Brain?'

If you're not aware of how to play 'Who's the Brain?' it's an extended version of the famous Johnny Lodden game and involves players guessing what one particular player would believe is an answer to a question, then other players speculate on what the player who is answering the question thinks.

In this particular level, Mustapha Kanit was the 'brain' and while others deliberated on how much money it would cost to have a head shaved for two years, Kanit was involved in a big hand. It had built to a river clash with Sam Greenwood on a board of . Greenwood, having invested half of a pot worth over 100,000 to that point, checked to Kanit. Kanit did no such thing, shoving all-in for way more than the 120,00 Greenwood had left.

Eventually, Greenwood folded and Kanit won the pot, yelping "Yes! First bluff of the year!"

He then told the players gathered around his table his answer, to peals of shock and "No way!" Both at the table and away from it, Kanit is costing his opponents money.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mustapha Kanit	369,000	66,000
Sam Greenwood	120,000	-10,000

Tags: Mustapha Kanit Sam Greenwood

01-09-2017 16:56 UTC-4

Bonomo Sends Drinan Out

MrPaulSeaton

Level 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Justin Bonomo raised from the button and was shoved on by the big blind. Bonomo called it off and showed and he was slightly ahead of .

Across the board, he stayed ahead. Bonomo is right up there with the leaders now.

Player	Chips	Progress
Justin Bonomo	236,000	190,700

01-09-2017 16:50 UTC-4

Kurganov Eliminated

Webjoker

Level 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Igor Kurganov got it in before the flop with up against the of Oleksii Khoroshenin.

"Come on! First suck out of the year," Kurganov instructed the dealer.

It would not come, as the board ran out .

He had just a tiny bit left and was all in blind the next hand. He lost his chips with ten-six to Vladimir Troyanovskiy's flopped trips and hit the rail for the second time today.

Player	Chips	Progress
Oleksii Khoroshenin	110,000	38,100
Igor Kurganov	Busted

Tags: Igor Kurganov Oleksii Khoroshenin

01-09-2017 16:44 UTC-4

Busto

Webjoker

Level 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
David Peters	Busted
Murad Akhundov	Busted
Orpen Kisacikoglu	Busted
Bryn Kenney	Busted

01-09-2017 16:37 UTC-4

Top 10 Chip Counts

MrPaulSeaton

Level 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

With so many big names, the field in this $50,000 is the biggest star. But whose star is rising highest? Here are the top ten counts as things stand midway through Level 6.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bill Perkins	319,000	-18,000
Mustapha Kanit	303,000	203,000
Daniel Colman	275,000	135,000
Sergi Reixach	251,000	51,000
Mike McDonald	243,000	-5,500
Vladimir Troyanovsky	194,000	194,000
Daniel Negreanu	184,000	-36,000
Leo Cheng	158,000	58,000
Daniel Dvoress	141,000	-11,000
Stephen Chidwick	136,000	-7,000