$5,000 Main Event Day 2 | 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas

$5,000 Main Event

Day 2 Completed

01-10-2017 22:08 UTC-4

Nick Maimone Leads the Field Into Day 3

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

The 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event closed registration at the start of Day 2. The event attracted a total of 738 players with 699 of those registering on Day 1a and 1b and the remainder coming in before the start of play on Day 2. 28 players who won a ticket via a Spin & Go never showed up to play, but their buy-ins were added to the prize pool. With a total prize pool of $3,376,712, first place is paying $480,012 and a min cash is worth $7,260.

Aaron Paul headlined Day 1b and most of Day 2. He was, however, unable to find a bag at the end of the six levels. The Breaking Bad star was short and eventually got his remaining chips in the middle with ace-nine. Daniel Colman called with queen-ten and Paul was immediately on his feet to sweat the result of the hand. The flop and turn ran out an ace, king and two jacks; giving Colman the nut straight but Paul was live if he managed to find a way to make a full house on the river. The deuce was a brick, though, and Paul was sent to the rail with only nine spots to go until the bubble would burst.

Play ended at the end of Level 14, shortly after Noah Boeken was eliminated by Tom Janssens on the bubble. Janssens raised the cutoff and Boeken, a former EPT Copenhagen champion and Master Classics of Poker winner, jammed his remaining 15,800 all in from the big blind. Janssens called and tabled ace-five, while Boeken had the dominating pocket tens. Janssens smashed the river to make a straight, sending Boeken home in 144th place on the stone bubble.

Nick Maimone bagged the most chips at the end of the day with 689,000, with Daniel Colman close behind with 620,000. Maimone is no stranger to The Bahamas as he took second in a $5,000 event in 2015 and took down the $25,000 High Roller last year for just shy of a million dollars. Even though Maimone has just under two million in live recorded cashes, he has only a single recorded win. He'll look to book his second one later this week.

Other notable players to find a bag tonight include Pascal Lefrancois (484,500), Mike McDonald (436,000), Sylvain Loosli (374,000), Cliff Josephy (242,500), Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier (281,000) and Barry Greenstein (95,000) and Team Online's Jaime Staples (211,500).

Familiar faces who made it to Day 2 but did not move on include William Kassouf, Marc-Andre Ladouceur, Maria Ho, Mustafa Kanit, Jason Koon and Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst, Daniel Negreanu and Victor Ramdin.

Day 3 fires up tomorrow at noon with 125 players returning to play another six levels on the road to crowning a winner in the first-ever PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event. Blinds will start at 2,000/4,000 when the players return. Stay with us here at PokerNews for more live coverage!

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Dorian Rios Pavon	Venezuela	52,000
1	2	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	77,500
1	3	Will Failla	United States	39,500
1	4	Donys Ivan Agnelli Rojas	Venezuela	175,000
1	5	Jacques Der Megreditchian	France	84,000
1	6	Thomas Bo Markussen	Denmark	29,500
1	7	Axat Tulsidas Mawji	United Kingdom	169,500
1	8	Michael Vela	United States	440,500

2	1	Dan Høidahl	Norway	33,500
2	2	Bradley Snider	United States	29,000
2	3	Allon Allison	Canada	252,000
2	4	Paul Knebel	Germany	31,000
2	5	Scott Stewart	United States	115,500
2	6	Harrison Gimbel	United States	204,000
2	7	Sam Chartier	Canada	157,000
2	8	Mike McDonald	Canada	436,000

3	1	Michael Zuckerman	United States	77,000
3	2	Smit Trivedi	United Kingdom	149,000
3	3	Luke Haward	United Kingdom	8,000
3	4	Arnaud Mattern	France	27,500
3	5	Valentin Messina	France	302,500
3	6	Thomas Muehlemann	Switzerland	93,500
3	7	Byron Kaverman	United States	286,000
3	8	Hendrik Latz	Germany	317,500

4	1	Pascal Lefrancois	Canada	184,500
4	2	Esther Taylor	United States	35,000
4	3	Pablo Mariz	Canada	41,000
4	4	Kevin Andriamahefa	Canada	173,500
4	5	Myung Shin	United States	204,000
4	6	Stein Vegar Rødseth	Norway	99,500
4	7	Rasmus Glæsel	Norway	322,000
4	8	Nick Maimone	United States	689,000

5	1	Francois Billard	Canada	20,000
5	2	Bradley Marsh	Canada	126,500
5	3	Fabio Freitas	Brazil	149,000
5	4	Raul Martinez	Spain	186,000
5	5	Pedro Baptista Martinho Cabeca	Portugal	428,500
5	6	Francisco Benitez	Uruguay	188,500
5	7	Benjamin Philipps	United Kingdom	250,500
5	8	Jeremey Grayson	Canada	50,000

6	1	Czeslaw Szerszen	United States	145,500
6	2	Murad Akhundov	Azerbaijan	224,500
6	3	Michael Bartholomew	Canada	46,500
6	4	Yakov Onuchin	Russia	244,500
6	5	Jason Mercier	United States	281,500
6	6	Brian England	United States	72,500
6	7	Robert Zipf	Germany	51,000
6	8	Ronan Gorey	Ireland	202,500

7	1	Likith Govindaiah	United States	100,000
7	2	Ramiro Petrone	Argentina	265,000
7	3	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	44,000
7	4	Diego Gomez	Spain	152,500
7	5	Bernard Lee	United States	35,500
7	6	Tom Janssens	Belgium	229,500
7	7	Steven Kerr	Canada	22,000
7	8	Erling Voje	Norway	49,500

8	1	Mariano Martiradonna	Italy	108,000
8	2	Nenad Medic	Canada	97,500
8	4	Massimo De Mario	Italy	128,000
8	5	Benjamin Wittams-Smith	United Kingdom	25,000
8	6	James Martyn	Canada	210,000
8	7	Kliment Tarmakov	Canada	140,500
8	8	James Tian	United States	147,500

9	1	Harry Ratchford	United States	22,000
9	2	Jorge De Oliveira Lopez	Portugal	90,000
9	3	Nick Mossa	Canada	62,500
9	4	Chance Kornuth	United States	97,500
9	5	Ami Alibay	Canada	300,500
9	6	Rex Clinkscales	United States	428,500
9	7	Marcin Kapkowski	Poland	274,000
9	8	Aleksei Opalikhin	Russia	387,500

10	1	Lucian Voigt	Germany	167,500
10	2	Allen Kessler	United States	152,500
10	3	Michael Gentili	Canada	190,000
10	4	Nadezhda Magnus	United States	200,500
10	6	John Engledow	United Kingdom	136,500
10	7	Christian Harder	United States	232,000
10	8	Jan Kralik	Czech Republic	203,500

11	1	Gaelle Baumann	France	217,500
11	3	Erick Brenes Cuadra	Costa Rica	68,000
11	4	Eric Semel	United States	43,000
11	5	Barry Greenstein	United States	95,000
11	6	Florian Haiduc	Romania	250,000
11	7	Mikko Turtiainen	Finland	160,000
11	8	Matthew Wantman	United States	92,000

12	1	Gautam Lillaney	Jamaica	155,000
12	2	Marius Cazacu	Romania	145,000
12	3	Adrian Mateos	Spain	204,500
12	4	Paul Fisher	United States	32,500
12	5	Damien Steel	Canada	257,000
12	6	Stig Moen	Norway	205,000
12	7	Vincent Moscati	United States	17,500
12	8	Mattias Priolo	Sweden	274,000

13	1	John Dibella	United States	80,000
13	2	Jackduyph Duong	United States	142,000
13	3	Kyle Zechner	Canada	113,500
13	4	James Juvancic	United States	431,500
13	5	Dan Colman	United States	620,000
13	6	Martin Raus	Canada	19,500
13	7	Patrick Stacey	Cayman Islands	111,500
13	8	Justin Ouimette	Canada	133,500

14	1	Joaquin Walter	Uruguay	125,000
14	2	Sylvain Loosli	France	374,000
14	3	Andrew Ryan	United States	307,500
14	4	Richard Seymour	United States	110,000
14	5	Daniel Weinman	United States	167,000
14	6	Erik Lemarquand	Canada	49,000
14	7	Tony Tran	United States	298,000
14	8	Lucas Greenwood	Canada	173,000

15	1	Andjelko Andrejevic	United States	103,500
15	2	Ryan Riess	United States	249,500
15	3	Jaime Staples	Canada	211,500
15	4	Benoit Galland	Canada	39,000
15	5	Cliff Josephy	United States	242,500
15	6	Shawn Buchanan	Canada	286,500
15	7	Alan Schein	United States	112,500
15	8	Willliam Batista Arruda	Brazil	360,000

16	1	Stanislav Miroshkin	Russia	44,000
16	2	Pedro Da Cunha Cavalieri Doro	Brazil	61,500
16	3	Rodrigo Cordoba	Argentina	364,500
16	4	Michael Scarborough	United States	108,000
16	5	Michael Bills	United States	162,500
16	6	Paul Ephremsen	United Kingdom	182,500
16	7	Pratyush Buddiga	United States	177,500
16	8	Benjamin Zamani	United States	81,000

Tags: Aaron Paul Barry Greenstein Cliff Josephy Daniel Colman Daniel Negreanu Jaime Staples Jason Koon Jason Mercier Marc Ladouceur Maria Ho Mike McDonald Mustapha Kanit Nick Maimone Noah Boeken Pascal LeFrancois Sylvain Loosli Vanessa Selbst Victor Ramdin William Kassouf

01-10-2017 21:58 UTC-4

End of Day Chip Counts (full)

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Maimone	689,000 9,000	9,000

Daniel Colman	620,000 245,000	245,000

Michael Vela	440,500 9,500	9,500

Mike McDonald	436,000 236,000	236,000

James Juvancic	431,500 101,500	101,500
Rex Clinkscales	428,500 108,500	108,500
Pedro Baptista Martinho Cabeca	428,500 299,300	299,300
Aleksei Opalikhin	387,500 299,100	299,100
Sylvain Loosli	374,000 254,000	254,000

Rodrigo Cordoba	364,500 6,500	6,500
Willliam Batista Arruda	360,000 45,000	45,000
Rasmus Glæsel	322,000 234,000	234,000
Hendrik Latz	317,500 273,400	273,400
Andrew Ryan	307,500 62,500	62,500
Valentin Messina	302,500 72,500	72,500
Ami Alibay	300,500 50,500	50,500
Tony Tran	298,000 88,000	88,000
Shawn Buchanan	286,500 221,500	221,500

Byron Kaverman	286,000 101,000	101,000

Jason Mercier	281,500 21,500	21,500

Marcin Kapkowski	274,000 135,000	135,000
Mattias Priolo	274,000 113,200	113,200
Ramiro Petrone	265,000 223,000	223,000
Damien Steel	257,000 154,100	154,100
Brock Allison	252,000 188,700	188,700

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01-10-2017 21:58 UTC-4

Baumann Calls To Take Out Tcechoev

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Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Gaelle Baumann was faced with a tough call on a full board for a big portion of her stack in the penultimate hand of the night. On a board of , the pot was only worth 40,000 before the river, but Baumann's bet of 17,000 was raised by Aslan Tcechoev to 77,700 as he moved all-in.

Baumann took her time, but eventually called, and Tcechoev showed . Baumann turned over and that was a good call. She has waited right until the end of the day, but made the big hands count with the right pay at the right time, and will bag up a good stack to take into Day 3.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gaelle Baumann	238,000 153,000	153,000
Aslan Tcechoev	Busted

Tags: Aslan Tcechoev Gaelle Baumann

01-10-2017 21:42 UTC-4

Govert Metaal and Gabriel Attiave Both Bust to Mike Vela

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Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Both Gabriel Attiave and Govert Metaal were short after the bubble, and each got their respective stacks in preflop while Mike Vela and another player had side action.

A bet from Vela on a flop got the other active player to fold, and then all three players tabled their hands.

Metaal:
Attiave:
Vela:

Vela paired his ten on the flop to take the lead, and he held it when the appeared on the turn followed by the on the river. With that, Vela scored the double elimination.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Vela	450,000 50,000	50,000

Govert Metaal	Busted
Gabriel Attiave	Busted

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01-10-2017 21:42 UTC-4

Five More Hands

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Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

The clock has now been paused at the 10-minute mark and the tournament director has announced there will be five more hands played before the end of the night.

Stay tuned for a full recap and chip counts!

01-10-2017 21:29 UTC-4

Noah Boeken Bubbles the PokerStars Championship Bahamas

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

With several short stacks just hanging on hoping to survive the bubble, the atmosphere was tense in the Imperial Ballroom of the Atlantis resort. Just one more player would go empty-handed, but who would it be? Davidi Kitai, one of the shortest players in the tournament, was eyeing the other stacks, other shorties walked around as well to see where they ranked.

Over on Table 2, Belgian player Tom Janssens raised the cutoff and Dutchman Noah Boeken in the big blind shoved for 15,800. Janssens did not hesitate and called.

Action was once again paused, waiting for the other tables to finish. "I have a very bad hand" Boeken admitted, but he did know he was in front as Janssens had admitted what he had already.

It turned out two more players would end up all-in that hand, but it was Boeken versus Janssens who showed first.

Noah Boeken:
Tom Janssens:

With the cameras buzzing and the onlookers holding their breath, the dealer burned a card and placed the first three community cards just above the divider line in the middle of the table: .

So far, things were looking good for Boeken but the turn would change that. Janssens asked for a six to spice things up but instead got the , which still made things interesting.

Jason Mercier predicted the three to come and so it did: on the river to give Janssens a wheel and Boeken's dream of cashing the first ever PokerStars Championship were crushed.

The former EPT Copenhagen and Master Classics of Poker champion could still chop a min cash if one or two of the other players that were at risk would bust, but he would not get so lucky. Both shorties doubled and Boeken ended up as the pure and only bubble.

Player	Chips	Progress
Noah Boeken	Busted

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01-10-2017 21:06 UTC-4

Tom Thomas Eliminated, Bubble Time

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Donys Ivan Agnelli Rojas from Venezuela raised from early position and saw short stack Tom Thomas shove for 29,500 from the big blind. Rojas called and play was halted, awaiting the outcome of two other all-in and call situations over on other tables.

The two other big confrontations ended up with a double for the shorter stack in the hand, so Thomas' tournament life was on the line with everything at risk. It was time for the players to table their cards:

Donys Ivan Agnelli Rojas:
Tom Thomas:

With poker media, a lot of players, onlookers and the television crew all surrounding the table, the dealer began to deal the community cards.

The flop and turn appeared rather quickly and meant no harm to Thomas. The on the river, however, did and with an intense wry smile, he walked away from the table.

Ace on the river did Thomas in, no cash for him. 144 players remain, still hand for hand as the tournament needs to lose one more player before the money stage is reached.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Thomas	Busted

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01-10-2017 20:56 UTC-4

James Juvancic vs. Scott Stewart as Money Nears

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Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Scott Stewart raised to 6,000 from middle position and James Juvancic called from the small blind. Both players then checked the flop and the peeled off on the turn.

Juvancic bet 8,500, Stewart called, and then both players returned to checking on the river. Stewart tabled the , and it was good as Juvancic sent his hand to the muck.