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Mike Watson opened to 45,000 with 
from the cutoff, and Tobias Reinkemeier defended from the big blind with 
. The flop fell 
, Reinkemeier checked, and Watson continued for 60,000.
Reinkemeier quickly folded.
With eight minutes left in Level 21, the cards are in the air!
Level: 21
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
Shaun Deeb wins dramatic hand against Micah Raskin to reach final as Chris Klodnicki bubbles final table. Read more in the PokerStars Blog.
Welcome to the third and final day of the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 High Roller. What began with 204 entries has been whittled down to just eight, and today those seven men and one woman will play down to a winner, who will take home a $1,424,420 first-place prize. The player best positioned to capture it is Shaun Deeb, who enters the final table as the chip leader with 2,536,000.
As far as Deeb is concerned, he got his chips in the last level of Day 2 in a huge pot with Micah Raskin. It happened with just nine players left in Level 21 with the blinds at 10,000/20,000/3,000 when Deeb opened for 45,000 from early position and Ole Schemion called from middle position. Raskin then three-bet to 95,000 from the button, and after both blinds folded, Deeb four-bet to 295,000. Schemion quickly got out of the way, Raskin called, and the two saw a flop of 
.
Deeb continued for 255,000, Raskin made a quick call, and the dealer burned and turned the 
. "You've only got one move," Raskin said as Deeb, who had 687,000 behind, spent some time in the tank. Eventually he emerged by going all in and Raskin snap-called with 
. Deeb then showed 
and was a huge favorite to double; in fact, Raskin needed either a five or six on the river win. The dealer burned one last time and put out the 
. Deeb doubled into the chip lead while Raskin was left with just 125,000.
Raskin is also at the final table, albeit as the short stack, and both he and Deeb will be joined by some stiff competition including Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst; Day 1 chip leader Vladimir Troyanovskiy, who also made the final table of the $100,000 Super High Roller; €50,000 Majestic High Roller champion Mike Watson; the ever-dangerous Bryn Kenney; and respected Europeans Ole Schemion and Tobias Reinkemeier.
Here's how the final table stacks up at the start of Day 3:
| Place | Player | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaun Deeb | 2,536,000 |
| 2 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | 1,625,000 |
| 3 | Ole Schemion | 1,227,000 |
| 4 | Mike Watson | 1,620,000 |
| 5 | Bryn Kenney | 484,000 |
| 6 | Micah Raskin | 389,000 |
| 7 | Tobias Reinkemeier | 876,000 |
| 8 | Vanessa Selbst | 1,512,000 |
The final table will start at 13:00 EST, but it won’t be live streamed until 14:00 EST. That means our live coverage will begin in just about an hour. Of course you can watch the live stream right here on PokerNews while following along with our live updates.
Vanessa Selbst, 28 from the United States, enters the final table fourth in chips. In 2010, Selbst finished fourth in the ￡20,000 High Roller event at EPT London, which is one of twelve six-figure scores on her résumé. Selbst of course won both NAPT Main Events held at Mohegan Sun in 2010 and 2011, earning a total of $1.2 million, and she took down the 2010 Partouche Poker Tour Main Event, pocketing $1,823,430.
With a fifth-place finish or higher, Selbst will take first in the all-time money list for female players, passing Kathy Liebert by a few thousand dollars. If she finishes third or higher, she will become the first female to earn $5 million in live tournaments.
Tobias Reinkemeier, 25 from Germany, enters the final table sixth in chips. Since 2010, Reinkemeier has reached the final table of seven high roller events, and winning one; the €25,000 High Roller at the 2010 PokerStars EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo ($1,272,698). In 2012 alone, Reinkemeier finished fifth in the €50,000 Majestic High Roller at the World Series of Poker Europe, second in the €100,000 Super High Roller at the EPT Grand Final, and third in the €10,000 High Roller at EPT Barcelona.
Reinkemeier has over $4.2 million in career live tournament earnings, and is looking to best his sixth-place finish in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 High Roller event.
Micah Raskin, from the United States, enters the final table as the short stack. At the unofficial final table, he played a 2.4 million-chip pot with Shaun Deeb, in which he called Deeb’s all in on a board of holding just . Deeb had that crushed with , and held when the completed the board.
Raskin has amassed over $1.3 million in career live tournament earnings, with his largest cash coming in 2009, where he won a Borgata $500,000 guarantee ($320,231). At the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Raskin finished sixth in the $10,000 High Roller for $39,575, and at the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, he took second in a $2,000 bounty event for $23,850.
He also final tabled the 2012 EPT Sanremo Main Event, finishing sixth for $170,435.
If Raskin finishes fourth or higher today, he will earn the largest cash of his career. As it stands, he’s already locked up his fourth-largest score ever.
Bryn Kenney, 26 from the United States, enters the final table seventh in chips. Kenney final tabled the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller, earning $643,000 for his third-place finish. It was his largest cash to date, nearly tripling the $255,242 he earned for finishing 28th in the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Kenney has over $2.4 million in career live tournament earnings, and has seen a lot of success on the virtual felt under the screen name “BrynKenney.” He will need to gain a few chips early to compete at the final table today, but that is far from improbable.
Mike Watson, 28 from Canada, enters the final table third in chips. No stranger to success in high rollers, Watson won the €50,000 Majestic High Roller at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe, earning $1,304,648, and finished runner-up in the €50,000 Super High Roller at EPT Barcelone, earning $490,847. Back in 2008, Watson finished third in a ￡20,000 High Roller event at the European Poker Championships, taking home $441,295.
Watson’s largest cash to date came in July of 2008 when he won the $15,000 Bellagio Cup, earning $1,673,770. He has over $5.3 million in live career tournament earnings, and the Canadian has already seen a small bit of success here at the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, finishing 14th in a $5,000 side event for $16,080.
