The action folded to Mikalai Vaskaboinikau in the small blind who pushed a stack of chips into the middle, more than enough to cover Daniel Dvoress who was sitting in the big blind with 49,000. Dvoress looked up at the tournament clock before finally calling off his last few big blinds.
Vaskaboinikau was in a dominating position with against Dvoress' . The flop came and Dvoress was in bad shape to find a double up. The turn brought the and the river landed the , sealing his fate as the tournament is now down to just 10 players.
Yes, you read that right. There are leagues all across Canada where you can enter weekly tournaments for free and the winners receive packages to poker tournaments all over the world. Canadians can go to a local pub, play some free poker, and will win entry into a tournament plus travel accommodations! A few years ago, a winner from the Toronto Poker League came to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and came in 3rd in the $1k!
Professional poker player Barry Greenstein has 10 big blinds on the bubble of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event 2018. He is surviving, but wants to accumulate a bigger stack and stay in long enough for a minimum cash. If he makes it into the money, he will take home at least $17K. Should he fold into the money? Or shove and try to build a stack? Barry Greenstein isn��t always playing Texas Hold ��Em. He much prefers mixed games including Stud, Pot Limit Omaha, Limit.
Christopher Kruk opened to 28,000 on the button and Isaac Haxton sized up his two opponents in the hand before putting out a stack of 25,000 chips, enough to cover both Kruk and Steffen Sontheimer in the big blind. Sontheimer quickly folded but Kruk snap-called.
Haxton:
Kruk:
The board ran out and Kruk's jacks held to give him a big double up.
With around 65,000 in the pot and the flop reading , Isaac Haxton led out for 47,000 from the small blind. Steffen Sontheimer called from the big blind and the landed on the turn.
Haxton checked this time and Sontheimer put out a bet of 55,000, which Haxton called. The river double-paired the board with the and Haxton shipped all in, putting Sontheimer at risk for his last 240,000 chips should he call. He thought for a while, using up two of his time banks before he pushed his cards to the muck.
Igor Yaroshevskyy shoved from under the gun for his last 51,000 and Daniel Dvoress called from the button with the larger of the two stacks by a wide margin.
Yaroshevskyy:
Dvoress:
Yaroshevskyy found himself behind preflop and needed to improve in order to stay alive. The board ran out so Dvoress took the pot with aces up to eliminate Yaroshevskyy.
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board gave him new life and much better-looking stack.
against Dvoress' 
. The flop came 
and Dvoress was in bad shape to find a double up. The turn brought the 
, sealing his fate as the tournament is now down to just 10 players.
, Isaac Haxton led out for 47,000 from the small blind. Steffen Sontheimer called from the big blind and the 
and Haxton shipped all in, putting Sontheimer at risk for his last 240,000 chips should he call. He thought for a while, using up two of his time banks before he pushed his cards to the muck.
so Dvoress took the pot with aces up to eliminate Yaroshevskyy.
