$50,000 Single-Day High Roller | 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

2016-01-09 15:32 UTC-4

New Faces, Two Reentries & a Bustout

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Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Salman Behbehani	100,000
[Removed:17]	100,000 100,000	100,000
Dani Stern	100,000 100,000	100,000
Connor Drinan	100,000
Keith Lehr	100,000
Sean Winter	100,000
Piotr Franczak	100,000
Isaac Baron	100,000
Anton Astapau	100,000
Taylor Paur	Eliminado

2016-01-09 15:34 UTC-4

Colman, Perkins and Boeree Involved in Epic Lodden Thinks

Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

"We're playing for $5k per question," Dan Colman explained to us after we followed along with two question of Lodden Thinks between him and Bill Perkins, with Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree as the brain.

In Lodden Thinks a question is posed to 'the brain', Boeree in this case, and it's not about whether or not the brain knows the right answer, it's just about what her or she thinks. In this case the first question was as follows.

"How much does the biggest earner in cricket make per year," Colman asked Boeree, while Perkins immediately jumped up in his seat.

"I got no clue about cricket, I know absolutely nothing about it," Perkins said, assuming there was some sort of angle here.

"I don't know anything either," Colman responded, "I just saw it on the TV behind you."

There were indeed some cricket highlights playing in the background, and Boeree started pondering her answer.

After a while Boeree reached into her pocket and wrote the number down in her phone, and the bidding commenced.

"One million," Colman started.

"Ten million," Perkins snapped back.

"11," Colman went.

After a back and forth Perkins set the line at $17 million and Colman took the under.

"Hold it," Perkins then said to Boeree, as she couldn't reveal her number just yet.

Colman wanted to up their bet to $10,000 for this question and Perkins obliged.

"$325,000," Boeree then said was her number, and both players were shocked.

Colman won the bet, but both were very surprised about how low Boeree's number was.

"It doesn't matter," Olivier Busquet laughed as Boeree was trying to explain her reasoning, "The brain never makes anyone happy."

Boeree said that she thought that cricket players in the UK aren't very famous, and that she couldn't name a single one despite being from one of the biggest cricket countries.

Yours truly immediately looked up the actual number, and the entire table burst out in laughter, amazed with the actual number.

MS Dohni makes $5.7 million per year on his contract, while also receiving $23 million in endorsements putting him at $28.7 million earned in 2015.

Perkins seemed happy in hindsight that they went up as far as they did, but he still lost $10,000 betting on this question.

"Of course those guys make a ton of money, the sport is huge in India," Perkins added, as they went through the list of highest earners in cricket.

The very next question was posed by Perkins almost immediately, and the two kept at it while they were playing in a tournament with a $50,000 buy in as well.

Tags: Bill Perkins Dan Colman Liv Boeree Olivier Busquet

2016-01-09 15:38 UTC-4

Boeree vs. Franczak

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Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree opened for 4,000 from the cutoff and Piotr Franczak called from the small blind. Timothy Adams came along from the big blind and three players saw a flop of .

Two checks saw Boeree continued for 8,000, Franczak called, and Adams got out of the way to make it heads-up action to the turn, which both players checked.

When the completed the board on the river, Franczak led out for 12,000 and it did the trick as Boeree released her hand.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Piotr Franczak	120,000 20,000	20,000
Liv Boeree	70,000 -30,000	-30,000

Tags: Liv Boeree Piotr Franczak

2016-01-09 15:41 UTC-4

Action Flop Sees Vogelsang Get It In

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Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Dario Sammartino raised to 5,000 preflop and received a call from Christoph Vogelsang. The flop saw a raising war break out, which resulted in Vogelsang getting his stack of 45,700 all in.

Vogelsang:
Sammartino:

Vogelsang pulled ahead on the flop by pairing his ten, but Sammartino was drawing to a flush. The turn paired Sammartino, but it didn't change his position as Vogelsang improved to two pair. The river was a blank, and Vogelsang doubled through Sammartino, who was left with just 2,200.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Christoph Vogelsang	107,000 56,000	56,000
Dario Sammartino	2,200 -97,800	-97,800

Tags: Dario Sammartino Christoph Vogelsang

2016-01-09 15:50 UTC-4

First Break of the Day

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Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day.

2016-01-09 16:07 UTC-4

Boeree Back to Starting Stack

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Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

A bit before the break, Talal Shakerchi opened with a raise under the gun and then called when Liv Boeree three-bet to 13,000 from middle position. The flop saw Shakerchi check-call a bet of 14,000, and the dealer burned and turned the .

Shakerchi checked for a second time and Boeree thought for nearly a minute before moving all in for roughly 40,000. Shakerchi snap-folded.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Liv Boeree	100,000 30,000	30,000

Talal Shakerchi	40,000 -49,000	-49,000

2016-01-09 16:07 UTC-4

Katz's Two Pair Counterfeited by Gross

Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Cary Katz just lost a big hand versus Jeff Gross, and he stepped away from the table to explain to us what happened.

"Don't believe anything he says," Gross laughed as he looked up at us.

"Jeff raised to 5k with ace-jack and I called on the button with ace-four," Katz said.

Keith Lehr made the call from the blinds and the flop brought out with two spades, and Gross bet 5,200 after Lehr checked.

Katz raised it up to 10,400 and Lehr folded after which Gross made the call.

On the turn the hit and Katz moved all in when Gross checked to him. Gross called all in and he turned over , and Katz was ahead with two pair.

The river brought a and Katz's two pair was counterfeited. Gross doubled up and Katz was left with a short stack.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Jeff Gross	137,000 37,000	37,000
Cary Katz	24,000 -76,000	-76,000

Tags: Jeff Gross Cary Katz

Nível: 5

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 300

2016-01-09 16:16 UTC-4

Volpe Busts Yan's First Bullet

Nível 5 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Before the break, on a flop we saw three players check and [Removed:17] bet 11,000 from the button. Only Paul Volpe called, and on the turn the hit.

Volpe checked again and Yan bet 20,000 after which Volpe moved all in. Yan called to put himself at risk for about 60,000 total, and Volpe showed for a set.

Yan held for straight and flush draws, but the river was the , sending him to the rail.

Yan reentered right away and he's back in now with a fresh stack worth 100,000.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Paul Volpe	145,000 45,000	45,000
[Removed:17]	100,000

Tags: Paul Volpe

2016-01-09 16:22 UTC-4

Stern Busts for a Second Time, Leah Enters & More

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Nível 5 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

The players keep flying in and out of the tournament. Mike Leah just jumped into the field, while Dani Stern busted a second time, meaning he is officially out with no option to reenter.

Others who've busted recently and reentered are Anton Astapau, Cary Katz, Sam Greenwood, and Scott Margereson.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Scott Margereson	100,000 100,000	100,000
Sam Greenwood	100,000 100,000	100,000
Cary Katz	100,000 100,000	100,000
Anton Astapau	100,000 100,000	100,000
Mike Leah	100,000
Dani Stern	Eliminado
Keith Lehr	Eliminado
Dario Sammartino	Eliminado
Adrian Mateos	Eliminado