Martin Finger opened from middle position (to either 4,800 or 5,000) and Jared Jaffee three-bet shoved for 30,200 from the cutoff. Andreas Samuelsson four-bet to effectively 50,000-ish in the small blind and Finger tanked for a bit before he called all in,
Finger:
Jaffee:
Samuelsson:
The board ran out , giving Samuelsson a set of kings on the river to eliminated both Jaffee and Finger.
Daniel Negreanu tells us an epic Ivey Story, as he recalls a high stakes golf match from back in the day against Mike Sexton. Ivey won a huge sum, well into the six figures, but still had some strong words for his caddy who misinformed him of the put.
We got to the table with slightly more than 25,000 already in the pot and the board showing . There was a bet of 12,500 sitting in front of Rep Porter in middle position and Jason Helder in the small blind had 32,000 in front of him. Porter made the call.
The river was the and Helder checked. Porter checked behind and Helder said "got there" as he turned over . Porter mucked his hand giving Helder the pot.
Welcome to Day 3 of PokerNews' coverage of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event.
The starting field of 816 entrants is down to just 175 players who are still in the running for this prestigious title and the first-place prize of $1,491,580. On top of the chip counts with Walter Fisher with 497,000. Rounding out the top five is Hugh Drummond (456,800), Juan Martin Pastor (446,000), Adam Reynolds (378,500) and Diego Ventura (362,800).
Others still in the field include Pratyush Buddiga (357,900), Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu (295,600), Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree (247,100), Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (212,400), Ole Schemion (192,600), Olivier Busquet (190,700), Mike Leah (185,400), Noah Schwartz (173,100) and Shannon Shorr (156,500), to name a few.
The plan for the day is to play another five levels, which should bring the field well into the money. The top 119 will make the money, with a min-cash being worth $17,800.
The cards will be in the air at noon local time, roughly 90 minutes from now. Keep it here at PokerNews throughout the day for live updates on all of the exciting action as the quest to crown the next PCA Main Event champion continues!