Mike Watson Leads the Final Six Players Into Day 3 of the $100,000 PCA Super High Roller
After over 12 hours of poker today, there will be just six players returning to the felt for the third and final day of the $100,000 PCA Super High Roller. They will be chasing down the lion's share of the $4.5 million remaining in the prizepool to kickstart the 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in The Bahamas.
Leading the way is Canadian Mike Watson who entered the day as the chip leader and that is exactly where he finished nine levels later. Watson started Day 2 with 830,000 chips and bagged up 3,015,000 to end things when play was halted. His fellow Canadian Daniel Dvoress bookends the field as the short stack returning for Day 3 with 1,590,000 chips. In the middle and also in the hunt include notables Juan Pardo (2,200,000), Adrian Mateos (2,035,000), Seth Davies (1,870,000), and Isaac Haxton (1,645,000).
Day 3 Seating Assignments and Chip Counts
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seth Davies | United States | 1,870,000 | 37 |
| 2 | Isaac Haxton | United States | 1,645,000 | 33 |
| 3 | Mike Watson | Canada | 3,015,000 | 60 |
| 4 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 2,035,000 | 41 |
| 5 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 1,590,000 | 32 |
| 6 | Juan Pardo | Spain | 2,200,000 | 44 |
Day 2 Action
The day began with 34 players returning to their seats and four more entries that joined them before the cards got in the air. Sam Grafton, Steve O'Dwyer, and David Yan all used a re-entry while Sean Winter joined for the first time. Unfortunately for them, they were unable to turn a fresh stack of 250,000 chips into any sort of payday.
The first couple levels of the day saw plenty of eliminations and chips being tossed around. While many players jostled for the chip lead throughout the day, the one thing that was consistent was the chip stack of Watson. When the final table of nine eventually amalgamated late into the night, the action became rather stagnant for quite some time. However, another pot that went Watson's way at the demise of Henrik Hecklen brought the field to the money bubble.
Ben Heath was the clear short stack with less than ten big blinds and was facing a raise from Mateos. Heath found a reasonably holding with pocket nines and put his stack in the middle. Unfortunately for him, Mateos had him in trouble with the fish hooks. Heath could not come from behind and was the last player sent home empty-handed.
With the rest of the field guaranteed at least $250,000, the action became more fluent. Timothy Adams was in a comfortable position until he collided with Haxton in a hand then put Adams in the tank for nearly four minutes on the river. Adams eventually folded to survive another hand but that's pretty much all it was. Just moments later, Adams stuck in his last 13 big blinds from the small blind and was called by Seth Davies in the big blind. Neither player caught any piece of the board and Davies' king-high was enough to bring an end to the day.
Although there was some discussion at the end on whether to keep playing tonight and what time to come back for Day 3, it was agreed upon that they would stick to the original schedule. The cards will be back in the air tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. EST with the blinds moving up to 25,000/50,000 and a big blind ante of 50,000. The levels will continue to be 60 minutes in length until just three players remain where they will be cut in half.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be back tomorrow to bring you all of the live updates as the action unfolds en route to crowning a new PCA Super High Roller champion.