Oleksii Khoroshenin has already made three final tables at this year's PokerStars Championship Bahamas festival, including winning one silver spade. He's off to a fast start today in the $25,750 High Roller, as is Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier who seeks to reprise his huge 2008 PCA Main Event title with another big win on Paradise Island. Check the PokerStars Blog for more from the first half of Day 1.
2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Ben Heath |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
Chance Kornuth |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
Cary Katz |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
Pascal Lefrancois |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
Lawrence Greenberg |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
Christoph Vogelsang |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Spain's Raul Martinez got his last 12,600 all in preflop and was at risk against Bryn Kenney.
Kenney:
Martinez:
The best shot Martinez had to double was to find an ace, but it wasn't in the cards as the board ran out .
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Bryn Kenney |
136,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
|
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Raul Martinez | Eliminado |
Sean Winter, who finished runner-up in this event one year ago for $914,580, was just eliminated at the hands of Igor Kurganov.
We missed the action unfold, but we learned the two each put in 23,000 preflop, which left Winter with just 200 back. Of course those ended up in on the flop.
Kurganov:
Winter:
Winter was ahead with a set, but Kurganov had a flush draw. The turn gave him the flush, and the river actually improved him to a straight flush.
"Get this guy out of here," Kurganov jokingly shouted, much to the amusement of the table.
"You're a gambler, Igor," Winter said before adding that he was going to finish his meal and fire a second bullet.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Igor Kurganov |
75,000
12,500
|
12,500 |
|
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Sean Winter | Eliminado |
An extremely long hand played out between Russian pro Maxim Lykov and Greek player Georgios Vrakas, with the board of almost being incidental to the stare-down action.
Lykov had moved all-in for 21,500 into a pot of 26,500, with Vrakas had the decision. Eventually, Vrakas called and was shown Lykov's flush with .
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Maxim Lykov |
70,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
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Georgios Vrakas |
70,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Poker had long been part of Benjamin Wittams-Smith's family life growing up. But the Spin & Go winner never dreamed he'd get the chance to live out a poker adventure like the one he experienced this week — one that also involved a trip back through some of those family memories, too, as it turned out.
Read his story over on the PokerStars Blog.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Tim Adams
|
230,000
180,000
|
180,000 |
Mark Radoja |
185,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
||
Jason Koon |
165,000
108,600
|
108,600 |
|
||
Patrick Serda |
125,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Daniel Colman | 110,000 | |
|
||
Richard Seymour |
110,000
86,000
|
86,000 |
Daniel Negreanu |
100,000
41,500
|
41,500 |
Mike McDonald |
100,000
41,200
|
41,200 |
|
||
David Peters |
100,000
52,600
|
52,600 |
|
||
Nacho Barbero |
100,000
11,950
|
11,950 |
|
||
Byron Kaverman |
95,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
||
Davidi Kitai |
75,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
|
||
Jake Cody |
70,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Govert Metaal |
55,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Bernard Lee |
45,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Pratyush Buddiga |
45,000
-4,775
|
-4,775 |
Liv Boeree | 40,000 | |
Nenad Medic |
40,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
||
Mustapha Kanit |
22,200
-27,800
|
-27,800 |
|
||
Ivan Luca |
19,800
-30,200
|
-30,200 |
|
||
Charlie Carrel |
14,000
-41,000
|
-41,000 |
Richard Seymour made it 4,500 to go on a flop of . He was called in two spots, including Keven Stammen. On the turn of , Seymour was at it again, barrelling off 9,500 into what was becoming a juicy pot.
After much deliberation, Stammen made the fold, intimating that he was really confused as to Seymour's hand. The three-time Superbowl champion was in no mood to help his opponents by showing his cards.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Richard Seymour |
52,000
-58,000
|
-58,000 |
Keven Stammen |
38,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
|
Action folded around to Mohsin Charania on the button and he raised to 1,800, which Vojtech Ruzicka three-bet to 6,200 from the small blind. Charania made the call and then called a bet of 5,300 on the flop.
After the dealer burned and turned the , Ruzicka checked and Charania bet 12,500. Ruzicka thought long and hard before making the call, and then he checked for a second time on the river. Charania checked behind and then mucked when Ruzicka tabled the for ace-jack high.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Vojtech Ruzicka |
90,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Mohsin Charania |
25,000
-25,000
|
-25,000 |
|
It was a classic race situation on Liv Boeree's table, or to be more specific, the table she has just moved to where she now sits to the direct right of Igor Kurganov. A tough draw any way you choose to look at it, but Boeree isn't getting any luck from the deck either.
All-in against the shorter stack of Pablo Fernandez, Boeree held and was racing to eliminate against Fernandez's hand of .
The board gave Boeree no help and she dropped the 27,500 that Fernandez's stack was worth, sliding all the way down to around 38,000 chips.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Pablo Fernandez |
57,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
Liv Boeree |
38,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |