Day 2 of $100,000 Super High Roller at Noon; Shakerchi Leads
Welcome back for Day 2 of the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller. Day 1 saw 49 entries tallied throughout, with 32 competitors surviving at the end of the first eight levels of action. Leading the pack was Talal Shakerchi with 805,000 in chips, but by no means is his lead a sizable one.
Trailing Shakerchi by a narrow margin was Nick Petrangelo with 800,000 in chips. Petrangelo is coming off a breakout year that saw him score over $3.4 million in live tournament earnings, including nine six-figure scores. Behind him was Kathy Lehne with 783,000, David Peters with 772,000, and 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Joe McKeehen with 732,000.
There was a chunk of players that busted out on Day 1, with the likes of Isaac Baron, JC Alvarado, Antonio Esfandiari, Thomas Muehloecker, and Ole Schemion all hitting the rail. Mustapha Kanit and Justin Bonomo were also eliminated, with both busting in the same final hand of the night at their table. But, if there was a bust out award handed out, it would have to go to Bill Perkins.
Perkins busted not once, not twice, but three times on the day. He reentered for another $100,000 buy-in after the first two before he opted to take the rest of the day off following the third. He did say he would see everyone tomorrow following the third elimination, which lends us to believe he'll be back at it today.
Late registration and reentry will remain open until the start of Day 2. At that point, the official numbers will be tallied and the prize pool will be made known. Several of the players eliminated are expected to return for Day 2, plus people like Mike Leah, who won $100,000 last night in a survivor side event, planning to buy in for the first time.
Day 2 will kick off at 12 p.m. local time in the Bahamas on Thursday, and the quest to another $100,000 Super High Roller champion will continue. Who will add their name to the prestigious list of winners, which includes Steve O'Dwyer, Fabian Quoss, Scott Seiver, Viktor Blom, and Eugene Katchalov? Stay tuned right here to PokerNews to find out!
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