Main Event Day 2 | 2017 PokerStars Championship Panama

Main Event

Day 2 Completed

03-16-2017 19:23 UTC-5

Igor Yaroshevskyy Leads PokerStars Championship Panama

Webjoker

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Day 2 of the PokerStars Championship Panama started with four new players signing up, boosting the total to 366 players for the inaugural event in Panama City. Martin Jacobson, Ambrose Ng, Erik Seidel and Bryn Kenney joined the field of 171 players that had survived Day 1a and 1b to start Day 2.

With 366 players and a total prize pool of $1,775,100, the PokerStars Championship Panama Main Event is by far the biggest event in the history of Panamanian poker. In fact, the three biggest events on Panamanian soil were all held this week with the $50,000 Super High Roller and $25,000 High Roller coming in second and third. The $5,000 High Rollers that were part of the LAPT in former seasons never got more than 68 entries.

After five levels of play on Day 2, just 78 players remain. With 71 making the money, the bubble is going to burst early on Day 3. Igor Yaroshevskyy has the best position, as he brings a massive 745,500 in chips to Day 3.

The second day of play started full of action. Yaroshevskyy, who already started out as the biggest stack, got the entire stack of Vicente Delgado, who six-bet pushed with ace-deuce suited for 138,000. Yaroshevskyy called with kings and saw his hand hold up to strengthen his lead over the rest of the field.

Team PokerStars Pro Online's Jaime Staples started out as one of the shortest stacks in the tournament. While he did outlast Delgado, he met his destiny just a couple hands later. He doubled first but ran out of luck when he pushed ace-six into queens. He still had a fair shot at doubling up as any ace would be enough, but the dealer would not be kind to him. His opponent flopped quads and after just three community cards, Staples was drawing stone dead.

The two competing WSOP Main Event champions followed in quick succession. Martin Jacobson was first to go, getting it in with ace-queen against kings and not managing to suck out. Ryan Riess followed seconds later, he ran ace-king into queens and did not hit.

Not only did Jacobson bust from the late registrants, but all four of them hit the rail before the bagging and tagging would begin. Ng (bustout unknown), Seidel (ace-king into queens) and Kenney (ace-nine into tens) all got eliminated well before the day was done.

Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez would also go out prematurely. He got it in with jacks against aces on a nine-high board and did not improve.

Tito Ortiz did manage to survive the day, bagging a very respectable 270,500. He grinded all day and managed to keep his stack around the average, only to win the last three hands and win a ton more. He'll start Day 3 with 90 big blinds.

Day 3 of the PokerStars Championship Panama Main Event starts at noon on Friday. Seven players go home empty-handed, $7,720 awaits those min-cash, and everyone will hunt the $293,860 that awaits the winner, which will be handed out Monday.

PokerNews will be on the floor all day again to bring you photos and updates from the Sortis Hotel Spa & Casino‎.

PokerStars Championship Panama Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count
1	2	Andres Carrillo	Colombia	156.000
1	3	Luis Perez	Venezuela	65.000
1	4	Michael Carter	Canada	14.500
1	5	Vincent Allevato	Canada	256.500
1	6	Dmitry Ponomarev	Russia	164.500
1	7	Daniel Ades	Argentina	40.500
1	8	Steven Thompson Vila	Costa Rica	135.500

2	1	Thomas Lefort	Canada	23.500
2	2	Roman Pavliuk	Ukraine	205.000
2	3	Samuel Gagnon	Canada	88.000
2	4	Edward Mandel	United States	49.000
2	5	Tito Ortiz	United States	270.500
2	6	Denis Timofeev	Russia	569.000
2	7	Mikhail Zamyatin	Russia	153.000
2	8	Jiachen Gong	Canada	34.500

3	1	Aleks Dimitrov	Bulgaria	231.500
3	2	Tom-Aksel Bedell	Norway	111.500
3	3	Jessica Perez Borrego	Panama	235.500
3	4	Anthony Diotte	Canada	50.000
3	5	Serge Pouliot	Canada	218.500
3	6	Kamal Abdel Bittar	Paraguay	107.500
3	7	Jason Wheeler	Mexico	213.000
3	8	Alexandre Viard	France	70.000

4	1	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	20.000
4	2	Pedro Romanzo Pollino	Venezuela	244.000
4	3	Jose Gonzales	Argentina	166.000
4	4	Ari Engel	United States	58.000
4	5	Taran Parmar	Canada	179.000
4	6	Jeiko Palma Kuzmicic	Panama	175.000
4	7	Luis Alejandro Mata	Venezuela	127.000
4	8	Sebastian Medina Echavarria	Colombia	49.000

5	1	Harpreet Gill	Canada	161.000
5	2	Byron Kaverman	United States	78.000
5	3	Martin Kus	Canada	125.000
5	4	Arturo Morales	Costa Rica	126.800
5	6	Roman Papacek	Czech Republic	47.000
5	7	Aaron Been	United States	52.500
5	8	Jose Rosenkrantz	Costa Rica	98.500

6	1	Yobrahin Larez Sanchez	Venezuela	129.000
6	2	Sergey Lebedev	Russia	86.000
6	3	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	67.500
6	4	Jose Moran Guzman	Mexico	102.500
6	5	Robin Luca Wozniczek	Germany	182.500
6	6	Mark Radoja	Canada	177.000
6	7	Erik Cajelais	Canada	129.500
6	8	Jonathan Abdellatif	Belgium	62.500

7	1	Kenneth Smaron	United States	234.500
7	2	Marcelo Filartiga Villalba	Paraguay	33.500
7	3	Jason Koon	United States	24.500
7	4	Jordan Saccucci	Canada	56.500
7	5	Karim Zerzour	Sweden	57.000
7	6	Felix Bleiker	Switzerland	125.000
7	7	Manuel Martinez Solsona	Spain	81.500
7	8	Allberto Meran Matias	Dominican Republic	135.500

8	1	Adrien Allain	France	118.000
8	2	Eduards Kudrjavcevs	Latvia	237.000
8	3	Jairo Escobar	Colombia	75.000
8	4	Lokesh Garg	United States	219.000
8	5	Vasyl Vertianov	Ukraine	196.500
8	6	Pablo Gordillo	Spain	254.500
8	7	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	184.000
8	8	Michael Lech	United States	139.500

9	1	Luiz Duarte	United States	189.500
9	2	Martin Finger	Germany	92.000
9	3	Fabrice De Benedictis	Switzerland	87.500
9	4	James Salmon	United States	189.000
9	5	Alberto Fonseca Masis	Costa Rica	82.500
9	6	Caufman Talley	United States	546.000
9	7	Lucas Blanco	Spain	132.000
9	8	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Ukraine	745.500

10	1	JC Alvarado	Mexico	103.000
10	2	Arunas Sapitavicius	Lithuania	223.500
10	3	Eric Semel	United States	61.000
10	4	Hector Perez Salgado	Colombia	29.500
10	5	Kliment Roussev Tarmakov	Canada	100.500
10	6	Adrian Gruber	United Kingdom	90.000
10	7	Michael Phillips	Costa Rica	38.500
10	8	Carlos Garcia Sarmiento	Colombia	54.500

Tags: Igor Yaroshevskyy Tito Ortiz

03-16-2017 19:20 UTC-5

End of Day 2 Chip Counts (full)

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Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Igor Yaroshevskyy	745,500 45,500	45,500
Denis Timofeev	569,000 -11,000	-11,000
Caufman Talley	546,000 96,000	96,000
Tito Ortiz	270,500 130,500	130,500

Vincent Allevato	256,500 36,500	36,500
Pablo Gordillo	254,500 174,500	174,500
Pedro Romanzo Pollino	244,000 44,000	44,000
Eduards Kudrjavcevs	237,000 50,000	50,000
Jessica Perez Borrego	235,500 60,500	60,500
Kenneth Smaron	234,500 -20,500	-20,500
Aleks Dimitrov	231,500 -54,500	-54,500

Arunas Sapitavicius	223,500 73,500	73,500
Lokesh Garg	219,000 -1,000	-1,000
Serge Pouliot	218,500 103,500	103,500
Jason Wheeler	213,000 -227,000	-227,000

Roman Pavliuk	205,000 174,000	174,000
Vasyl Vertianov	196,500 196,500	196,500
Luiz Duarte	189,500 133,000	133,000
James Salmon	189,000 44,000	44,000
Steve O'Dwyer	184,000 23,000	23,000

Robin Luca Wozniczek	182,500 106,700	106,700
Taran Parmar	179,000 46,000	46,000
Mark Radoja	177,000 2,000	2,000

Jeiko Palma Kuzmicic	175,000 74,000	74,000
Jose Gonzales	166,000 31,000	31,000

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03-16-2017 19:04 UTC-5

Three More Hands

Chad Holloway

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

The tournament staff just announced that the remaining field will play three more hands before bagging and tagging on Day 2, which means the money bubble will have to wait until tomorrow.

Stay tuned for any last-minute hands, a full recap of the Day 2 action, and a list of survivors complete with chip counts.

Jason Wheeler explains a hand where he eliminated a player, even though he did play the hand optimally.

03-16-2017 19:03 UTC-5

Davidi Kitai Finally Makes His Move

Chad Holloway

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

After Karim Zerzour limped from the hijack, Davidi Kitai, who has been nursing an extreme short stack for awhile, moved all in for 6,500 from the button. Venezuela's Luis Perez then three-bet to 14,500 from the small blind and Zerzour folded.

"You're ahead," Perez said.

"No," Kitai said with little confidence, though as it turned out he was wrong.

Kitai:
Perez:

Kitai was in fact out in front, and he hit the flop hard by making a flush. Perez was drawing to a chop, which would require two running diamonds bigger than those in Kitai's hand.

The turn took away any chance of that happening and Kitai more than double after the was put out on the river. Kitai then gave Perez a little fist bump as a way of thanking him for the preflop protection.

Meanwhile, Andrew Chen was eliminated from the featured table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Luis Perez	69,000 -34,300	-34,300
Davidi Kitai	20,000 13,500	13,500

Tags: Andrew Chen Luis Perez Davidi Kitai

03-16-2017 19:00 UTC-5

Timofeev Crosses Half a Milly

[user323482]

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

A big pot was brewing in the middle of the tournament room with about 30,000 in the pot already.

On a board reading , Adrien Allain checked from the cutoff and Denis Timofeev bet 14,000. Allain called.

The turn was the and both players checked to the river, which was the .

Allain led out for 30,000 and Timofeev immediately looked at Allain's stack. After about a minute of deliberation, Timofeev raised to 80,000.

Allan looked uncomfortable and began cutting his chips down. He looked as though he was in agony, but eventually folded, sending the massive pot over to Timofeev, putting him over the 500,000 chip mark.

Player	Chips	Progress
Denis Timofeev	580,000 240,000	240,000
Adrien Allain	115,000 -45,000	-45,000

Tags: Adrien Allain Denis Timofeev

03-16-2017 18:51 UTC-5

O'Dwyer Collects Three Streets

mnuwwarah

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

We found Steve O'Dwyer facing a bet of 4,500 from an opponent in middle position on a flop. O'Dwyer, who had the button, called. He called another barrel of 8,500 on the turn, and a finished out the community. O'Dwyer had the option when checked to, and he fired in 20,000. His opponent thought about a minute and called, and O'Dwyer showed for winning trips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Steve O'Dwyer	161,000 81,000	81,000

Tags: Steve O'Dwyer

03-16-2017 18:40 UTC-5

Kudrjavcevs Puts Guzman to the Test

mnuwwarah

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Jose Moran Guzman defended his big blind from an under-the-gun raise by Eduards Kudrjavcevs, and they got to a turn with the board reading after unknown flop action. Guzman checked and called 12,400 into about 20,000, and the river was a . Guzman checked a final time, and Kudrjavcevs put him all in.

"Tough decision," Guzman said after some time, looking at his last 85,000 or so. Finally, he let it go.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eduards Kudrjavcevs	187,000 117,200	117,200
Jose Moran Guzman	85,000 -35,000	-35,000

Tags: Eduards Kudrjavcevs Jose Moran Guzman

03-16-2017 18:35 UTC-5

Finger Jams the Turn

[user323482]

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Byron Kaverman raised to 5,500 from under the gun and Martin Finger called from the cutoff, as did the big blind.

The flop came and the big blind checked. Kaverman bet 7,300 and the action moved to Finger. After about a minute, Finger raised to 20,500. The big blind got out of the way and Kaverman thought for a while before deciding to call.

The turn was the . Kaverman quickly checked, and Finger moved all in for his remaining 40,000.

Kaverman looked displeased and flung his cards into the muck, sending the pot Finger's way.

Player	Chips	Progress
Byron Kaverman	110,000 -22,000	-22,000

Martin Finger	100,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Byron Kaverman Martin Finger

03-16-2017 18:30 UTC-5

Plata for Escobar

Webjoker

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Jairo Escobar got his last 30,000 or so in before the flop with up against the of Alberto Fonseca Masis. Escobar would not hit, but did end up receiving all the chips in the middle.