$10,300 PCA Main Event Dia 2 | 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

$10,300 PCA Main Event

Dia 2 Terminado

2023-01-25 23:44 UTC-4

Kulev Leads the Way After Day 2 As the Money Bubble Looms in the 2023 PCA Main Event

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Nível 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Another busy day during the 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) festival at the lavish Baha Mar Resort in The Bahamas has all but concluded. The flagship 2023 PCA $10,300 Main Event is one step closer to crowning a champion and a massive flow of new entries boosted the attendance significantly during the first two levels on Day 2.

Thanks to 249 new entries and re-entries, a total field size of 889 entries emerged and that tally surpassed the 865 entries of the previous edition in 2019. No portion of the $8,623,300 prize pool has been awarded yet but the money bubble will be looming early on Day 3 as the number of hopefuls has been whittled down all the way to just 151 remaining contenders.

Once the dust had settled after five levels of 90 minutes each, Alex Kulev had put some distance between himself and all those hoping to claim the $1.5 million top prize. Despite starting in the middle of the pack, the Bulgarian soared to the top of the leaderboard in the final stages and claimed 704,000 to his name. His nearest follower is Australia's Ehsan Amiri, who is the only other player with more than half a million in chips at his disposal (518,000).

Several other contenders are closely bunched together thereafter including Evan Sparling (469,000), Christoph Csik (451,500), and defending champion Chino Rheem (428,500). The overnight top ten also features the likes of Michael Rocco (408,000), Chance Kornuth (380,000), and Mustapha Kanit (366,500).

Top Ten Chip Counts after Day 2

Place	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	704,000	235
2	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	518,000	173
3	Evan Sparling	Canada	469,000	156
4	Christoph Csik	United States	451,500	151
5	Chino Rheem	United States	428,500	143
6	Dean Murphy	Canada	411,000	137
7	Michael Rocco	United States	408,000	136
8	Chance Kornuth	United States	380,000	127
9	Mustapha Kanit	Italy	366,900	122
10	Mauricio Ferreira Pais	Germany	366,500	122

"I am very fortunate to be in this position," Kulev said after the day had wrapped up and mentioned he will only try to make it to the end of the next day instead of muscling shorter stacks with his major chip advantage. The Bulgarian is very good friends with former PCA Main Event champion Dimitar Danchev, which he credited as a very big inspiration for his career.

"If I deal anywhere near as good as he did, I will be very happy with that," Kulev concluded. Danchev witnessed Kulev in action during the last few levels and advanced as well, albeit with a much shorter stack of 93,000. It is the first time Kulev is visiting The Bahamas but he has become a regular on the European Poker Tour (EPT) during the last few years. He already has more than $1 million in live cashes to his name and a deep run would further cement his status as one of the rising stars of the international poker circuit.

Some of the biggest names in poker made their way to the island on short notice and entered the fray. Among those, Chad Eveslage, Elio Fox, John Juanda, John Racener, Ben Lamb, Noah Schwartz, and Joe McKeehen all advanced.

Several PokerStars ambassadors were also involved in the action and bagged up chips tonight. Ramon Colillas made it through with 236,000 and will certainly aim to follow into the footsteps of his trademark victory in 2019 when the then online qualifier won the inaugural PokerStars Players NL Hold'em Championship (PSPC) for $5.1 million.

Andre Akkari (123,500) and Sam Grafton (119,000) were the only other representatives of the red spade to advance as Alejandro Lococo, Parker Talbot, Rafael Moraes, and Benjamin Spragg came up empty-handed. Friend of PokerStars Maria Konnikova, who reached the final table of the BSOP $1,100 Main Event earlier in the festival, claimed a healthy stack of 206,000 for Day 3.

Many other big names were not as fortunate as the list of casualties contains the who-is-who of poker. EPT Main Event champion Manig Loeser was among the victims of Kulev's hot run when his ace-king lost a flip to pocket queens.

Kevin Rabichow, David Yan, Erik Seidel, Juan Pardo, Yuri Dzivielevski, Joao Vieira, Sam Greenwood, Mikita Badziakouski, Fedor Holz, Martin Jacobson, Davidi Kitai, Stephen Chidwick, Chris Moorman, Ryan Riess and Benny Glaser were also among the hundreds of casualties as well.

The money bubble is expected to burst early on Day 3 when the action continues Thursday, January 26, 2023, at noon local time. Returning blinds will be 1,500-3,000 with a big blind ante of 3,000 and the levels continue at a 90-minute duration.

Stay tuned for all the upcoming action right here on PokerNews as the live reporting team will be on the floor to provide as many key hands as possible. The live stream action is also available on the PokerStars Twitch and YouTube channels with commentary and cards-up coverage on a 30-minute security delay.

Tags: Alejandro Lococo Alex Kulev Andre Akkari Benjamin Spragg Chance Kornuth Chino Rheem Davidi Kitai Dimitar Danchev Ehsan Amiri Erik Seidel Fedor Holz Joe McKeehen John Juanda Kevin Rabichow Manig Loeser Maria Konnikova Martin Jacobson Michael Rocco Mustapha Kanit Parker Talbot PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Rafael Moraes Ramon Colillas Ryan Riess Sam Grafton Yuri Dzivielevski

2023-01-25 23:01 UTC-4

2023 PCA Main Event: Day 3 Seat Draw

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Nível 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	1	Adrian Mateos	Spain	57,000	19
1	2	Ben Lamb	United States	128,000	43
1	3	Ryan Blank	United States	161,500	54
1	4	Justin Bonomo	United States	155,000	52
1	5	Taylor Paur	United States	239,500	80
1	6	Roger Teska	United States	110,500	37
1	7	Allan Ribeiro	Brazil	251,500	84
1	8	Dylan Linde	United States	80,000	27

2	1	Jean-Noel Thorel	France	255,000	85
2	2	Andrew Moreno	United States	328,000	109
2	3	John Racener	China	161,000	54
2	4	Gustavo Mastelotto	Brazil	72,000	24
2	5	Jonathan Little	United States	74,000	25
2	6	Nick Petrangelo	United States	261,500	87
2	7	Vladislav Solovev	Russia	152,000	51
2	8	John Juanda	Indonesia	176,500	59

3	1	Martin Raus	Canada	33,000	11
3	2	Javier Fernandez	Spain	74,000	25
3	3	Daniel Ghionoiu	Canada	164,000	55
3	4	Cassio Kiles	Brazil	100,500	34
3	5	Patros Benham	Canada	113,500	38
3	7	Artur Martirosian	Russia	82,500	28
3	8	Joe McKeehen	United States	86,500	29

4	1	Justin Steinbrenner	Germany	160,500	54
4	2	Espen Jorstad	Norway	36,000	12
4	3	David Coleman	United States	262,500	88
4	4	Mauricio Ferreira Pais	Germany	366,500	122
4	5	Chad Eveslage	United States	257,000	86
4	6	Anthony Hu	United States	135,500	45
4	7	Andy Wilson	United Kingdom	70,500	24
4	8	Michel Dattani	Portugal	194,500	65

5	1	Michael Rocco	United States	408,000	136
5	2	Mustapha Kanit	Italy	366,900	122
5	3	Pascal Hartmann	Germany	225,000	75
5	4	Jonathan Proudfoot	United Kingdom	67,000	22
5	5	Brian Kim	United States	98,000	33
5	6	Anton Wigg	Sweden	286,500	96
5	7	Chance Kornuth	United States	380,000	127
5	8	Rudy Cervantes	United States	202,500	68

6	1	Eric Afriat	Canada	301,000	100
6	2	Leonard Maue	Germany	224,000	75
6	3	Martin Zamani	United States	145,000	48
6	4	Ionut-Lucian Colciar	Romania	57,500	19
6	5	Christopher Frank	Germany	169,500	57
6	6	Sergi Reixach	Spain	174,500	58
6	7	David Mzareulov	Azerbaijan	127,500	43
6	8	Alex Kulev	Bulgaria	704,000	235

7	1	Robert Heidorn	Germany	110,000	37
7	2	Sampson Simmons	United States	63,000	21
7	3	Alberto Meran	Dominican Republic	270,000	90
7	4	Pascal Lefrancois	Canada	158,000	53
7	5	Alexandros Kolonias	Greece	80,000	27
7	6	Ren Lin	United States	207,000	69
7	7	Florian Duta	Romania	228,000	76
7	8	Yigit Aksoy	Turkey	316,000	105

8	1	Yiannis Liperis	Cyprus	92,500	31
8	2	Giuseppe Pantaleo	Italy	196,000	65
8	3	Anatoly Nikitin	Russia	80,000	27
8	4	Ramin Hajiyev	Azerbaijan	150,500	50
8	5	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	104,000	35
8	6	Gianluca Speranza	Italy	81,500	27
8	7	Jesse Lonis	United States	30,000	10
8	8	Noah Schwartz	United States	111,000	37

9	1	Justin Saliba	United States	116,500	39
9	2	Zevola Marco	Argentina	134,000	45
9	3	James Harvey	United States	112,500	38
9	4	Daniel Custodio	Portugal	235,000	78
9	5	Paulina Loeliger	United States	68,500	23
9	6	Andre Machado	Brazil	74,000	25
9	7	Sylvain Loosli	France	81,000	27
9	8	Robert Cowen	United Kingdom	64,500	22

10	1	Michael Gathy	Belgium	191,500	64
10	2	David Stamm	United States	44,000	15
10	3	Justin Zaki	United States	94,000	31
10	4	Stefan Lehner	Austria	18,500	6
10	5	David Peters	United States	154,500	52
10	6	Tamas Konya	Hungary	42,500	14
10	7	Dietrich Fast	Germany	148,000	49
10	8	Ambrose Ng	Canada	76,500	26

11	1	Lucas Landa	Argentina	257,500	86
11	2	Ramon Colillas	Spain	236,000	79
11	3	Jason Mercier	United States	64,500	22
11	4	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	119,000	40
11	5	Andras Nemeth	Hungary	247,000	82
11	6	Thomas Muehloecker	Austria	79,000	26
11	7	Philip Shing	United States	188,500	63
11	8	Evan Sparling	Canada	469,000	156

12	1	Alexander Tkatschew	Germany	92,500	31
12	2	Maria Ho	United States	96,500	32
12	3	Kelvin Kerber	Brazil	154,000	51
12	4	Vladas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	86,000	29
12	5	Ignacio Moron	Spain	330,500	110
12	6	Darren Rabinowitz	United States	170,000	57
12	7	Balakrishna Patur	United States	116,500	39
12	8	Johan Guilbert	France	265,000	88

13	1	Pedro Neves	Portugal	170,000	57
13	2	Mitchell Halverson	United States	123,000	41
13	3	Anthony Swift	United States	100,000	33
13	4	Chino Rheem	United States	428,500	143
13	5	Juan Membreno	El Salvador	100,000	33
13	6	Andre Marques	Portugal	363,000	121
13	7	Thomas Eychenne	France	141,500	47
13	8	Andre Akkari	Brazil	123,500	41

14	1	Rui Bouquet	Portugal	161,000	54
14	2	James Mendoza	United States	257,500	86
14	3	Giovani Gouveia	Brazil	135,000	45
14	4	Fabian Quoss	Germany	112,500	38
14	5	Noah Boeken	Netherlands	144,000	48
14	6	Rehman Kassam	United Kingdom	162,000	54
14	7	Eliot Hudon	Canada	303,500	101
14	8	Colton Blomberg	United States	318,500	106

15	1	Maria Konnikova	United States	206,000	69
15	2	Luis Pinho De Faria	Portugal	328,500	110
15	3	Fabian Bernhauser	Austria	263,500	88
15	4	Joseph Drory	United States	145,500	49
15	5	Christoph Csik	United States	451,500	151
15	6	Isaac Haxton	United States	88,000	29
15	7	Pablo Brito Silva	Brazil	87,500	29
15	8	Jamil Wakil	Canada	313,000	104

16	1	Laszlo Bujtas	Hungary	229,000	76
16	2	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	83,500	28
16	3	Alexandre Raymond	Canada	172,500	58
16	4	Lander Lijo	Spain	117,500	39
16	5	Ian Matakis	United States	353,000	118
16	6	Scott Bohlman	United States	222,000	74
16	7	Mike Watson	Canada	164,500	55
16	8	Anton Astapau	Belarus	98,500	33

17	1	Tobias Schwecht	Germany	198,000	66
17	2	James Tolbert	United States	112,000	37
17	3	Brian England	United States	106,000	35
17	4	Robert Lofaso	United States	54,500	18
17	5	David Miscikowski	United States	35,000	12
17	6	Dean Murphy	Canada	411,000	137
17	7	Tauan Naves	Brazil	105,000	35
17	8	Lewis Spencer	United Kingdom	228,500	76

18	1	Xuan Liu	Canada	182,500	61
18	2	Seth Davies	United States	110,000	37
18	3	Rodrigo Selouan	Brazil	172,500	58
18	4	Andrew Chen	Canada	155,500	52
18	5	Pedro Marques	Portugal	104,000	35
18	6	Giuseppe Iadisernia	Venezuela	280,000	93
18	7	Chris Brewer	United States	261,000	87
18	8	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	518,000	173

19	1	Elio Fox	United States	234,008	78
19	2	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	93,000	31
19	3	Jose Severino	Panama	87,000	29
19	4	Alessandro Siena	Italy	138,000	46
19	5	Elias Gutierrez	Spain	113,500	38
19	6	Samad Rashid	United States	259,000	86
19	7	Franck Makaci	France	145,000	48
19	8	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	155,500	52

2023-01-25 22:28 UTC-4

End-of-Day 2 Counts (Completo)

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Nível 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Alex Kulev	704,000	9,000
Ehsan Amiri	518,000
Evan Sparling	469,000	9,000
Christoph Csik	451,500	206,500
Chino Rheem	428,500	3,500
Dean Murphy	411,000	127,000
Michael Rocco	408,000	-7,000
Chance Kornuth	380,000	15,000
Mustapha Kanit	366,900	-68,100
Mauricio Ferreira Pais	366,500	66,500
Andre Marques	363,000	-59,000
Ian Matakis	353,000	92,000
Ignacio Moron	330,500	44,500
Luis Faria	328,500	328,500
Andrew Moreno	328,000	-12,000
Colton Blomberg	318,500	13,500
Tinay Aksoy	316,000	28,000
Jamil Wakil	313,000	-22,000
Eliot Hudon	303,500	70,500
Eric Afriat	301,000	76,000
Anton Wigg	286,500	26,500
Giuseppe Iadisernia	280,000	35,000
Alberto Meran	270,000
Johan Guilbert	265,000	-38,000
Fabian Bernhauser	263,500	14,500

Leia tudo

2023-01-25 22:25 UTC-4

Day 2 Completed

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Nível 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Around 151 players have bagged and tagged their chips to conclude the Main Event for the evening. Assorted counts will be published shortly. The full counts, Day 3 seat draw, and a recap of today's action are to follow.

2023-01-25 22:23 UTC-4

Sparling Shoves RIver

Nível 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Evan Sparling opened under the gun to 6,000 and was called only by Andrew Wilson in the cutoff.

The flop came out and Sparling continued for 11,000, which was called by Wilson.

The turn was the which saw a check from Sparling and a bet of 10,000 from Wilson. Sparling check-raised him to 31,000 and put the action back on Wilson, who eventually made the call.

When the fell on the river, Sparling announced he was all in, which prompted a hasty fold from Wilson.

Sparling was shipped the pot to boost his sizeable stack to 460,000.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Evan Sparling	460,000	10,000
Andrew Wilson	70,000	49,100

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2023-01-25 22:20 UTC-4

Kulev Clear Chip Leader After Busting Tulin

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Nível 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Nikolai Tulin limped in from the small blind and called after Alex Kulev made it 10,000 from the big blind.

Tulin check-called a pot-sized bet of 22,000 on the flop which brought in the turn. Tulin checked once more and Kulev kept on the pressure by firing for another 65,000. Tulin thought over his options and then moved all in for around 140,000 and Kulev snap-called.

Nikolai Tulin:
Alex Kulev:

Kulev flopped a straight but wasn't the guaranteed winner just yet as Tulin had outs to the flush. The completed the board and Kulev hoovered in the massive pot.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Alex Kulev	695,000	300,000
Nikolai Tulin	Eliminado

Tags: Alex Kulev Nikolai Tulin

2023-01-25 22:12 UTC-4

Maue Wins at Showdown

Nível 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Leonard Maue was in the hijack against Anton Astapau in the big blind.

There was 13,500 in the pot and the flop came . Astapau check-raised the 6,500 continuation bet from Maue to 18,000. Maue called.

The was the turn and action checked through.

Action checked through again on the river. Astapau showed for a pair of fives while Maue turned over for a pair of eights to take down the pot.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Leonard Maue	215,000	-35,000
Anton Astapau	103,500	-16,500

Tags: Anton Astapau Leonard Maue

2023-01-25 22:03 UTC-4

Racener Turns a Flush

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Nível 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

John Racener called from the button after Kelvin Kerber made it 5,000 from middle position. Racener called a bet of 8,000 on the flop and then fired for 11,500 after his opponent checked the turn. Kerber called.

Kerber checked once more on the river and Racener put in another bet, this time sizing up to 28,000. Kerber called.

Racener turned over his for a flush and Kerber mucked.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Kelvin Kerber	172,000	-66,000
John Racener	155,000	123,600

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2023-01-25 21:59 UTC-4

Rocco Putting the Pressure On

Nível 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Action was three ways to the flop with 24,000 in the pot. Michael Rocco was under the gun against Franck Makaci in middle position and Scott Bohlman on the button.

Action checked through on the flop.

The turn came the and action checked to Makaci who bet 6,500. Bohlman called before Rocco check-raised to 25,000. Only Bohlman called.

The was the river and Rocco announced a bet of 75,000. Bohlman went deep into the tank, pained over his decision, before deciding to fold. Rocco added to his big stack.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Michael Rocco	415,000	65,000
Scott Bohlman	170,000	-118,000
Franck Makaci	155,000	-5,000

Tags: Franck Makaci Michael Rocco Scott Bohlman