Level: 7
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
$50,000 6-Handed
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$1,509,948
Entries
31
Level
22
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
60,000
Entries
31
Players Left
1
Level 6
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Mikita Badziakouski raised to 4,000 from under the gun, and the action folded around to Cary Katz in the big blind.
Katz called to see the 
flop, and checked-called a continuation bet from Badziakouski of 2,500.
Katz checked again after the 
turn to see Badziakouski fire another bet of 13,000. Katz took almost the entire 30-second clock before mucking his cards. "Mikita muscle" said Katz, as Badziakouski collected the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
54,000
32,000
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32,000 |
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24,000
-76,000
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-76,000 |
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Level 6
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
After a big preflop raise from David Yan to 23,500 and a call from David Peters, the two went heads-up to a flop of 
.
Yan continued for 12,500 and Peters once again made the call.
When the turn came the 
, Yan seemed to stare off into the distance before cutting out a large bet of 30,000. Peters checked his cards once more but did not seem to like them very much and tossed them into the muck to award another pot to Yan.
Meanwhile, Cary Katz enters the fray at the adjacent table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
240,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
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105,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
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100,000 | |
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Level 6
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
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.”
Level 6
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
After check-raising Sam Greenwood on the flop of 
, Timothy Adams led out on the 
turn, but this time Greenwood moved all in to cover Adams.
Adams quickly made the call, which put him at risk, and the cards were tabled:
Timothy Adams: 
Sam Greenwood: 
The board completed with the 
and Greenwood emerged victorious with his superior two pair while Adams exited the tournament area.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
230,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
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|
Busted | |
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Level: 6
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
Level 5
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
The flop read 
when Justin Bonomo bet out 6,000 into his heads-up opponent, David Yan, who then moved all in to cover.
Bonomo checked his cards once more before setting out his chips, putting himself at risk.
Justin Bonomo: 
David Yan: 
The board completed with 
and Yan's jack-kicker held to send Bonomo to the rebuy desk.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
210,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
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|
Busted | |
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Level 5
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
220,000 | |
|
|
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|
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215,000
215,000
|
215,000 |
|
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|
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175,000
175,000
|
175,000 |
|
|
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|
165,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
|
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|
140,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
||
|
|
120,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
|
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|
115,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
105,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
|
|
40,000 | |
|
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|
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37,000 | |
|
|
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|
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22,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
|
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Level: 5
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
Level 4
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
You can chalk this one up in the "never seen that before" poker category. Pierre Kauert busted in sixth place in the WSOP Circuit Main Event at King's Casino on...get this...a heads-up chop pot.
Yes, that's right, he became the first player ever, at least on a live stream, to be eliminated from a tournament in a hand he didn't actually lose. No one, not even the announcers, caught the mistake, and by the time it was discovered the pot should have been chopped, it was too late.
"It does fall under player and dealer responsibility and cannot really do anything about it at this point. If it wasn’t live streamed it would never have been realized and so we just move on," World Poker Tour's Executive Tour Director Matt Savage, who was not associated with the event, explained to PokerNews when asked how he would have proceeded.