Artur Martirosian opened to 100,000 before Jonathan Little made it 300,000 from the cutoff. Alexandros Kolonias then jammed for 1,505,000 from the big blind. Martirosian folded and Little called.
Pedro Neves raised to 100,000 from early position before Alexandre Raymond made it 275,000 from the next seat over. Mitchell Halverson tallied up his stack before he announced that he was all in for 1,780,000, and Neves shoved with more. Raymond got out of the way and action was heads up with Halverson at risk.
Mitchell Halverson:
Pedro Neves:
The board ran out and the kings held to eliminate Halverson from the tournament in 11th place for $112,600.
Alexandre Raymond raised to 100,000 in the hijack and was called by Mitchell Halverson on the button, Taylor Paur also stuck around in the big blind. On a flop, Paur checked and Raymond bet 135,000 for Halverson to bust. Paur then jammed and Raymond quickly folded.
Raymond opened to 100,000 from under the gun next and Pedro Neves defended his big blind. The flop was checked and Neves' bet on the turn for 150,000 won the pot uncontested.
Last but not least, Michel Dattani raised to 200,000 and Paur three-bet in the cutoff. Dattani wasted little time before pushing all-in and Paur instantly folded.
Artur Martirosian opened to 100,000 from under the gun with . Jonathan Little called with from the cutoff.
On the flop, Martirosian checked, and Little bet 100,000. Martirosian called.
Martirosian then had outs to broadway following the turn, which checked through to the river to give Martirosian the straight. He decided to lead for 375,000 which folded out Little.
Artur Martirosian limped in from the small blind with and Jonathan Little checked in the big blind with .
Martirosian check-called for 75,000 on the flop which brought in the turn. Both players checked before Martirosian bet 300,000 on the river and Little folded.
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) is happening now, and later this month the PokerStars Players NLH Hold’em Championship (PSPC) will take place January 30-February 3. One man who will be heading to the Bahamas is 41-year-old Jared “BeamDoctorPoker” Halter, who won a Platinum Pass on PokerStars Michigan.
“I won a PSPC Platinum Pass on Wednesday, November 9,” Halter told PokerNews. “I had just returned from Vegas that morning on a red eye flight and slept for four hours on a friend’s couch before I drove home for two hours. To be honest, I was very fortunate to win because I had a very rough 72 hours. Some things happened in Vegas that caused me to have anxiety attacks for the first time in my life and I ended up only sleeping about five hours total in the previous 48.”
He continued: “I was exhausted and when the MTT started, I said to myself, it will take a miracle for me to win. Funny enough, I mis-clicked two different times early in the tourney and called three-bets with hands like 85o (I did not win those hands). I streamed the tourney, and only single tabled it, because of how tired and ungrounded I felt from the previous time. During the stream, I talked about how exhausted I was and how there was almost zero chance I win. Of course, as we know, the universe had a different plan.”