Niveau: 11
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Niveau: 11
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
The remaining 28 players have been sent on their first 15-minute break of Day 2.
Bryn Kenney opened to 17,000 in middle position and Dan Smith flat-called on the button, while Ben Heath also came along from the big blind.
Heath checked on the flop of and Kenney continued for 16,000. Smith called and Heath got out of the way. Kenney then bet 32,000 on the turn and Smith called.
Kenney slowed down on the river and Smith announced a bet of 88,000. Kenney sighed and stretched as he exhausted three of his time banks. Eventually, he called.
"Ace-jack," announced Smith before showing , leading Kenney to muck as he was left with crumbs.
Just a few hands later, Kenney open-jammed from under the gun and was called by the bigger-stacked Juan Pardo in the small blind.
Bryn Kenney:
Juan Pardo:
Kenney had run into kings to be drawing thin and received no help from the runout to mark his elimination. It is unlikely any tears were shed by other players in the event as the second all-time money leader was accused last year of running an online cheating ring.
Elsewhere, fellow American high-stakes pro Nick Petrangelo was eliminated.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Mike Watson |
1,000,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
|
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Dan Smith |
560,000
235,000
|
235,000 |
|
||
Ben Heath |
300,000
166,000
|
166,000 |
|
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Juan Pardo |
300,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Stephen Chidwick |
260,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
||
Daniel Dvoress |
260,000
101,000
|
101,000 |
|
||
Cary Katz |
230,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
Bryn Kenney | Eliminé | |
|
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Nick Petrangelo | Eliminé | |
|
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.”
Seth Davies raised it up from the cutoff and Sirzat Hissou ripped all in for 86,000 on the button. The blinds folded and Davies confirmed the count before calling.
Sirzat Hissou:
Seth Davies:
The flop came and Davies picked up a straight draw to go with his two over cards. The on the turn gave Davies even more outs but Hissou managed to fade them all with the on the river.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Seth Davies |
605,000
133,000
|
133,000 |
|
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Sirzat Hissou |
185,000
-63,000
|
-63,000 |
Artur Martirosian was seen standing up from his seat after getting stacked by Day 2 newbie Sean Winter.
Martirosian's hand had already been mucked while Winter showed with a king on the board for a set to send the Russian packing.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Sean Winter |
350,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Artur Martirosian | Eliminé | |
|
Jean-Noel Thorel raised to 20,000 in the cutoff and Sam Greenwood shoved all in for 165,000 on the button. Joao Vieira asked for a count from the big blind and then called, prompting a fold from Thorel.
Sam Greenwood:
Joao Vieira:
They were off to the races and Greenwood took the lead on the flop. The and runout was no help to Vieira who passed over a double-up.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Jean-Noel Thorel |
635,000
175,000
|
175,000 |
Sam Greenwood |
362,000
124,000
|
124,000 |
|
||
Joao Vieira |
238,000
-128,000
|
-128,000 |
|
Dan Smith was out of position in a heads-up pot against Michael Addamo on a board of .
Smith checked on the turn and Addamo bet 30,000. Smith check-raised to put Addamo all in and he called off with the remainder of his short stack.
Michael Addamo:
Dan Smith:
Smith had turned two pair to be in front of Addamo's pair of aces and nothing changed on the river to mark the Australian's elimination.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Dan Smith |
325,000
205,000
|
205,000 |
|
||
Michael Addamo | Eliminé | |
|
Ignacio Moron raised it up to 20,000 from the small blind and Adrian Mateos re-raised to 58,000 in the big blind. Moron called and the flop of was spread across the felt.
Moron checked to Mateos who continued for 40,000 and Moron called. The landed on the turn and both players checked to the on the river.
Moron led out with a bet of 20,000 this time and Mateos snap-called. Moron tabled for top pair and Mateos mucked.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Adrian Mateos |
619,000
74,000
|
74,000 |
|
||
Ignacio Moron |
505,000
-67,000
|
-67,000 |
Over the past century, poker has permeated pop culture, especially when it comes to motion pictures. Long before the “Poker Boom”, and even before the World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a thing, poker had already made its big screen debut.
Over the decades, poker fans have been treated to a plethora of poker movies, some good and others not so much. Some well-received poker films include the western comedy Maverick (1994), Survivor host Jeff Probst’s debut film Finder’s Fee (2001), the improv-inspired The Grand (2007), indie comedy darling Hitting the Nuts (2010), and the high-profile Hollywood flick Molly’s Game (2017).
All of those are among the best poker movies of all time, and if this article was “Top 10” instead of “Top 5 Poker Movies,” chances are they’d make the final list. However, the PokerNews crew got together, along with input from social media, to determine the top five must-watch poker movies of all time.