A short-stacked Jaime Staples moved all in for 4,200 under the gun and Costa Rica's Michael Acevedo called from the cutoff. The rest of the field folded and the cards were turned up.
Acevedo:
Staples:
Staples was well out in front, but that didn't stop Acevedo from calling for help.
"Seven," he told the dealer. "One time."
The dealer did not oblige and instead ran out a board.
"You use your one time for this?" someone at the tabled joked with Acevedo, who let slip a big smile.
A player opened in middle position only to see Martin Jacobson drop in 20,000 out of his stack into the middle from the small blind. The opener mucked, and Jacobson took the pot.
The next hand, Jacobson opened from the button and stole the blinds. The former WSOP Main Event champ is wasting little time making up for a lack of Day 1 action.
In the second hand of play, Vicente Delgado opened the action from middle position. From the button, Igor Yaroshevskyy three-bet to 7,500 and both blinds quickly released. When action got back to Delgado, he put in a fourth bet, worth 21,200.
Yaroshevskyy asked his opponent how much he was playing, but Delgado just pointed at his stack without saying a word.
After thinking about it for a little bit more, Yaroshevskyy five-bet to 47,500. Delgado didn't need much time as he shoved all in after about ten seconds in the tank. Yaroshevskyy called instantly.
Vicente Delgado:
Igor Yaroshevskyy:
The board ran out and Delgado parted ways with his 138,000-stack.
Davidi Kitai came in to the day as one of the shortest stacks and got his remaining chips in the middle with . He was called by Pedro Pollino who held .
The board was running out clean until the hit the river. Kitai was on his feet already and cheered as he got the early double up he was looking for.
Day 2 of the first ever PokerStars Championship Panama $5,000 Main Event is beginning at noon local time at Sortis Hotel, Spa and Casino. Igor Yaroshevskyy leads the way with 219,600 and is the only player to have crossed the 200,000 mark so far.
UFC Hall of Famer, Tito Ortiz, strolled in on Day 1a and did some damage on the felt, bagging the second-most chips with 182,000 and is still second overall. Jason Koon sits in third in chips and looks to add yet another title to his resume, while Day 1b leader, Jiachen Gong, follows him with 154,300 and Caufman Talley rounds out the top five with 150,300.
Team PokerStars Pro, Jake Cody, held on after jumping in late in the day yesterday and bagged more than he started with, sitting at 36,100. Team PokerStars Pro Online, Jaime Staples, is nursing a stack of 4,700, but don't count him out as he looks to best his deep run in the Bahamas, finishing in 27th place there.
With 171 survivors from both of the starting flights, along with any latecomers at the start of the day, there is lots of poker to be played! Registration will remain open until the first card is dealt in the opening level today. The remaining players will complete six, 75-minute levels at which point they will bag and tag their stacks to come back for Day 3 tomorrow.
Blinds will begin at 500/1,000 with an ante of 100 and there will be a break every two levels. Day 3 begins on Thursday at noon local time.
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