Liv Boeree opened with a raise to 23,000 from under the gun. Action folded around to the cutoff where Karl Stark called from the cutoff. Koray Aldemir was in the small blind and he raised to 100,000. The big blind and Boeree quickly folded putting the action back on Stark. Stark thought for a bit before moving all in for 762,000 chips. Aldemir sighed and called.
Aldemir:
Stark:
Stark was in the lead and he held on through the flop. Aldemir did pick up a few extra outs on the turn. But it was the that came on the river, turning the tables on Stark and giving the former chip leader a swift exit from the tournament. Aldemir takes down the massive pot and vaults into the chip lead with over 150 big blinds.
From middle position, Adrian Mateos opened for 26,000. Big blind Jack Sinclair called with .
The flop came and Sinclair checked. Mateos checked behind. The on the turn saw both players check as well and the completed the board. Sinclair bet 27,000 into 74,000 and Mateos shoved all in.
Sinclair, with a pained look on his face, tanked for a bit and eventually called it off. He soon enough got the bad news and exited the tournament room.
Florian Maurer opened with a raise to 27,000 from middle position before Liv Boeree three-bet to 115,000 from the cutoff. Action folded around to Lucas Blanco who moved all in from the big blind for 381,000. Maurer folded putting the action back on Boeree who quickly called.
Boeree:
Blanco:
The flop came down which put Boeree in a commanding position. She retained her lead on the turn and the river and that earned her the pot. Blanco was eliminated from the tournament collecting $38,380 for his run while Boeree pushed over 900,000 chips with that pot.
From the button Koray Aldemir opened with a raise to 34,000. Christian Rudolph was the only caller from the big blind.
The flop came down [Jh,Jc,4h[ and Rudolph checked to Aldemir. Aldemir put out a bet of 26,000. Rudolph then decided to check-raise, making it 65,000. Aldemir thought for a bit, then called.
The turn was the and Rudolph continued with a bet of 140,000. Aldemir thought a bit, then called again.
On the river, Rudolph slowed down and checked. Aldemir checked behind. Rudolph showed for just a bluff and Aldemir had that beat with for a better nothing. With ace-high Aldemir was awarded the pot.
Oleg Titov opened with a raise from under the gun and action folded all the way around to the blinds. There, Christian Rudolph called and the big blind folded bringing the players heads up to a flop.
The flop came down and Rudolph checked. Titov then put out a bet of 50,000. Rudolph thought for a bit then raised to 162,000. Titov didn't take long to move all in with a covering stack for 561,000 effectively. Rudolph snap-called.
Rudolph:
Titov:
Rudolph flopped the nuts with a redraw to the immortal nuts. Titov was caught with his hand in the cookie jar and just ace-high.
The turn was the which sealed the deal for Rudolph. The river was the but it changed nothing. Rudolph earned himself a massive double and moved over a million chips.
Maria Lampropulos opened the hijack for 37,000. Liv Boeree in the cutoff raised to 100,000 with 504,000 behind. The button and both blinds folded and action was back on Lampropulos. She contemplated what to do for a bit before announcing she was raising. She took her time, eventually deciding on a four-bet to 200,000.
Boeree stared at Lampropulos before eventually announcing all in for 604,000 total. Lampropulos just nodded before sliding some additional chips over the line to call.
Maria Lampropulos:
Liv Boeree:
"I knew it," Boeree muttered.
The board never made things exciting as it came a clean .
Boeree, with hanging shoulders, left for the payout desk while Lampropulos started stacking one of the biggest stacks in the room.
With that, the tournament is down to 16 players and play was halted for the day. Check back soon for an end-of-day recap of today's action and all the official chip counts and redraw information.
Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree has been eliminated from the 2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event in 17th place, running queens into the kings of Maria Lampropulos. It made for a short day of tournament play in the Bahamas, with Lampropulos ending the day as one of the biggest stacks in the room. David Peters leads, and Koray Aldemir and Adrian Mateos are also amongst the players returning for Day 5 of the PCA Main Event.
Just 43 players started Day 4 of the Main Event, with the goal of playing down to 16 players or 5 full levels. Lachezar Plamenov Petkov busted in the first hand of the day, followed by PokerStars Ambassador Maria Konnikova. Konnikova won the National event earlier this festival for $84,600, and now she added $22,020 for her 42nd place. She started the day short stacked and never got back in it. In her last hand, she got it in drawing slim with queen-jack versus ace-queen and aces and didn't survive.
Oliver Weis got it in better but the result would be the same: a place on the rail. The German regular had aces versus tens on a jack-high board, only to see his opponent river a ten to crush his dreams.
Aaron Olshan and his mother Sharman Olshan busted in quick succession of each other. Aaron lost with ace-jack to ace-king, Sharman lost ace-king to queens, and the Cinderella story of mother and son making the final table together was over.
High stakes regular Orpen Kisacikoglu doubled early on, but it wouldn't serve him well. He lost queens against ace-four when an ace hit the flop. Kisacikoglu instantly put his Main Event cash on the line and went on to register for the $25,000 High Roller.
Meanwhile, the other habitual high rollers Adrian Mateos, Koray Aldemir and David Peters showed how to play poker like a beast. The three all crushed their tables, forcing folds of better hands left and right, getting value of worse hands, and inducing bluffs against them.
Start-of-day chip leader Karl Stark did have Aldemir sweat a little bit. After an open from Liv Boeree and a call from Stark, Aldemir squeezed with ace-king. While Boeree got out of the way, Stark chose a more aggressive answer; he pushed all in for 76 big blinds. Aldemir called but wasn't too happy when he saw he had nothing more than a flip against Stark's nines. The flop and turn didn't help Aldemir, but the king on the turn paired him up, and Stark exited while Aldemir built a 1.5 million stack.
Jack Sinclair got to the feature table, only to leave one hand later. He handed his chips to Adrian Mateos in a hand he was uncertain about after it had happened. Mateos checked back a flopped set and eventually pushed against Sinclair, where the 2017 WSOP Main Event final tablist had rivered third pair. Sinclair opted for the call but was crushed by the Spaniard.
As more players hit the rail, the average stack grew bigger and only a few shorties were left. It was a cooler that ended the day, with Boeree on the wrong end of that confrontation. As mentioned earlier, she found herself all in with queens to Lampropulos' kings.
"I knew it," Boeree muttered before the dealer dealt a board full of blanks to end the day.
And like that, the day was done. 16 players remain, and they'll return to the flashy television set in the Imperial Ballroom of the Atlantis Resort on the Bahamas. Day 5 gets back underway at noon on Saturday, with the full 90 minutes left in the new level of 10,000/20,000, 2,000 ante. Check back then for PokerNews coverage of the penultimate day of the Main Event.