Bartosz Stasiewicz was fairly short to start the hand and got all his chips in the middle before the flop against Tom Waters.
Stasiewicz:
Waters:
Waters had the preflop advantage and Stasiewicz needed to improve to survive. The board ran out which gave Stasiewicz two pair but made the nut flush for Waters, so he took the pot to eliminate Stasiewicz and put his stack over the 24,000,000-chip mark.
There were about 1 million chips already in the pot and the board read when we got to the table. Action checked to Pavel Plesuv on the button and he bet 375,000. Conor Beresfold called from the big blind.
The turn brought the and Beresford checked. Plesuv bet 23,200,000, and after some consideration, Beresford folded. The dealer pushed the pot to Plesuv.
Out of the 215 entries that took to the felt in the $5,300 MILLIONS Finale at the Caribbean Poker Party Festival, just 26 will return at noon local time for the final scheduled day of play. Pavel Plesuv currently sits atop the chip counts with a stack of 21,955,000, and the next-largest stack belongs to partypoker Head of Poker Tom Waters who will take 15,700,000 chips out of the bag when cards fly on Day 3.
The top stacks are joined by several more well-known players, including Kenny Hallaert (9,625,000), Manig Loeser (9,100,000), Day 1 chip leader Chris Hunichen (9,075,000), Koray Aldemir (8,675,000), partypoker Sponsored Pro Anatoly Filatov (7,900,000), Barny Boatman (6,000,000), partypoker Sponsored Pro Roberto Romanello (5,900,000), and partypoker Sponsored Pro Kristen Bicknell (2,550,000).
The remainder of the field is currently three spots away from the money and is scheduled to play down to a winner today.
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