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WPT Caribbean – Day 2 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sat, 2013-11-23 09:47
The second day of the WPT’s $3.2k Caribbean Main Event on St Maarten kicked off with 107 players returning to the tables. During Day 1, the field had played down from 191 to 107, and Day 2 saw that field thin further down, to 32. The player who finished Day 2 with the largest stack was Thomas Laviano, who had 402k chips bagged.
Dan Sindelar had a great Day 2 too: he finished with 398k chips to his name, enough for provisional second place.
Jean Nicolas-Fortin and Christian Stallinger followed with 361.5k and 306k chips respectively. Australian poker pro Tony Dunst finished with 282k.
Other notables who made the top 10 were Sean Jazayeri and Bobby Oboodi.
As soon as the action kicked off at the beginning of the day, the eliminations started flowing as the retuning competitors wasted no time in tearing into each-other.
Paul Benichou got aggressive during the early stages of the
poker tournament, four-betting all-in with a pair of 9s against two other players. While Giacomo Fundaro decided to get out of the way, Micah Rashkin made the call with a pair of 10s. The flop fell 7h,6d,5h, giving Benichou a gut-shot straight draw. The 4 on the turn and the A on the river sealed the deal though and he was bounced.
Most of Laviano’s chips came during the 12th level of action, when he managed to take out Anthony Zinno. Their confrontation was a pretty classic one: the chips went into the pot preflop, as Laviano tabled an A,Jo against Zinno’s pocket Ks. While Zinno was the favorite, the flop brought an A to give his opponent the lead, while also giving Zinno a 4-card flush. Neither the turn, nor the river card was a spade though and Zinno was sent packing.
He was joined on the rail by Mike Watson, Will Failla and Stephen Bokor among others.
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