Level: 5
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
$50,000 Single-Day High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$3,860,000
Entries
80
Level
23
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Level 4
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Cary Katz just lost a big hand versus Jeff Gross, and he stepped away from the table to explain to us what happened.
"Don't believe anything he says," Gross laughed as he looked up at us.
"Jeff raised to 5k with ace-jack and I called on the button with ace-four," Katz said.
Keith Lehr made the call from the blinds and the flop brought out 
with two spades, and Gross bet 5,200 after Lehr checked.
Katz raised it up to 10,400 and Lehr folded after which Gross made the call.
On the turn the 
hit and Katz moved all in when Gross checked to him. Gross called all in and he turned over 
, and Katz was ahead with two pair.
The river brought a and Katz's two pair was counterfeited. Gross doubled up and Katz was left with a short stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
137,000
37,000
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37,000 |
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24,000
-76,000
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-76,000 |
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Level 4
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
A bit before the break, Talal Shakerchi opened with a raise under the gun and then called when Liv Boeree three-bet to 13,000 from middle position. The 
flop saw Shakerchi check-call a bet of 14,000, and the dealer burned and turned the 
.
Shakerchi checked for a second time and Boeree thought for nearly a minute before moving all in for roughly 40,000. Shakerchi snap-folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
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40,000
-49,000
|
-49,000 |
Level 4
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day.
Level 4
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Dario Sammartino raised to 5,000 preflop and received a call from Christoph Vogelsang. The 
flop saw a raising war break out, which resulted in Vogelsang getting his stack of 45,700 all in.
Vogelsang: 
Sammartino: 
Vogelsang pulled ahead on the flop by pairing his ten, but Sammartino was drawing to a flush. The 
turn paired Sammartino, but it didn't change his position as Vogelsang improved to two pair. The 
river was a blank, and Vogelsang doubled through Sammartino, who was left with just 2,200.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
107,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
|
2,200
-97,800
|
-97,800 |
|
|
||
Level 4
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree opened for 4,000 from the cutoff and Piotr Franczak called from the small blind. Timothy Adams came along from the big blind and three players saw a flop of 
.
Two checks saw Boeree continued for 8,000, Franczak called, and Adams got out of the way to make it heads-up action to the 
turn, which both players checked.
When the 
completed the board on the river, Franczak led out for 12,000 and it did the trick as Boeree released her hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
120,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
70,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
|
|
||
Level 4
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
"We're playing for $5k per question," Dan Colman explained to us after we followed along with two question of Lodden Thinks between him and Bill Perkins, with Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree as the brain.
In Lodden Thinks a question is posed to 'the brain', Boeree in this case, and it's not about whether or not the brain knows the right answer, it's just about what her or she thinks. In this case the first question was as follows.
"How much does the biggest earner in cricket make per year," Colman asked Boeree, while Perkins immediately jumped up in his seat.
"I got no clue about cricket, I know absolutely nothing about it," Perkins said, assuming there was some sort of angle here.
"I don't know anything either," Colman responded, "I just saw it on the TV behind you."
There were indeed some cricket highlights playing in the background, and Boeree started pondering her answer.
After a while Boeree reached into her pocket and wrote the number down in her phone, and the bidding commenced.
"One million," Colman started.
"Ten million," Perkins snapped back.
"11," Colman went.
After a back and forth Perkins set the line at $17 million and Colman took the under.
"Hold it," Perkins then said to Boeree, as she couldn't reveal her number just yet.
Colman wanted to up their bet to $10,000 for this question and Perkins obliged.
"$325,000," Boeree then said was her number, and both players were shocked.
Colman won the bet, but both were very surprised about how low Boeree's number was.
"It doesn't matter," Olivier Busquet laughed as Boeree was trying to explain her reasoning, "The brain never makes anyone happy."
Boeree said that she thought that cricket players in the UK aren't very famous, and that she couldn't name a single one despite being from one of the biggest cricket countries.
Yours truly immediately looked up the actual number, and the entire table burst out in laughter, amazed with the actual number.
MS Dohni makes $5.7 million per year on his contract, while also receiving $23 million in endorsements putting him at $28.7 million earned in 2015.
Perkins seemed happy in hindsight that they went up as far as they did, but he still lost $10,000 betting on this question.
"Of course those guys make a ton of money, the sport is huge in India," Perkins added, as they went through the list of highest earners in cricket.
The very next question was posed by Perkins almost immediately, and the two kept at it while they were playing in a tournament with a $50,000 buy in as well.
Level 4
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000 | |
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100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
100,000 | |
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|
100,000 | |
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|
100,000 | |
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100,000 | |
|
100,000 | |
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|
100,000 | |
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Busted | |
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Level: 4
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Level 3
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
With around 12,000 in the pot and a flop of 
, a player in the blind checked and Scott Seiver bet 10,500 from early position. Justin Bonomo made the call from middle position, and then Daniel Dvoress moved all in for what looked to be 65,000 or so.
The player in the blind folded, Seiver quickly released, and Bonomo gave it some thought before giving it up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
105,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
||
|
100,000
-10,500
|
-10,500 |
|
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|
75,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
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