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Michael Gentili leads the final 6 at PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event

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Garfed   Malta. Jan 15 2017 01:03. Posts 4818

After five days of poker, just six players remain in the inaugural PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event. Michael Gentili entered Day 5 with the chip lead and finished in the same spot, bagging up 6,175,000 to set the pace heading into the final day of action.

This $5,000 Main Event began earlier this week with a pair of starting flights that drew a combined field of 738 entries. That turnout generated a prizepol worth $3,376,712 to be shared by the final 143 players. The bubble burst late on Day 2, and the field was whittled down to 125 players before night’s end. That number was further trimmed to 32 by the end of Day 3, then down to 16 as Day 4 concluded.

It took about eight hours to play from that number down to the final six on Friday's Day 5, a day in which the eliminations came quickly for the short stacks. Pedro Cabeca entered the day near the bottom of the counts, and he took an early opportunity to flip for his tournament life with pocket jacks against Rasmus Glæsel's ace-king. An ace on the flop spelled the end for Cabeca, though, exiting in 16th place ($24,640).

Shortly thereafter, Ryan Riess got the last of his stack in preflop as a dominating favorite with ace-king against Michael Vela's ace-five suited, but another five on the flop sent the 2013 WSOP Main Event Champion to the rail in 15th place ($32,200).

Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier was the shortest stack in the field at that point and the last player remaining to carry the banner for the Team. He was next to fall, though, running his ace-eight into Michael Bartholomew's ace-nine and failing to improve. Among Mercier's many accolades are three previous PokerStars brick-and-mortar titles, but he was forced to settle for a 14th-place finish and a $32,200 consolation prize this time.

Alan Schein, Marcin Kapkowski, Bartholomew, and Rodrigo Cordoba dropped out in quick succession in places 13 through 10, and the other nine players combined around the final table to play down to six under the bright lights of the PokerStars TV set.

Nadya Magnus found her first 15 minutes of fame as a loose cannon on the PokerStars Big Game, where she earned more than $60,000 playing cash against some of the best in the world. She flexed her tournament chops this week in The Bahamas, too, turning in a career-best live performance. Magnus got her last 15 big blinds into the middle with ace-queen against Vela's pocket jacks, but she was unable to catch up to avoid a ninth-place elimination ($56,260).

John Dibella was the only remaining player with seven figures of live results in The Bahamas, the majority of that coming courtesy of his impressive Main Event title run in the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. This time, his stack bled down to about six big blinds before he took his stand with pocket nines against Christian Harder's ace-jack. Dibella won his fair share of flips on the way to his previous title, but he was unable to do the same on this occasion. Harder flopped an ace, and Dibella could not catch back up, exiting in eighth place ($56,260).

Speaking of past success in this building, Brock Allison fell just shy of making a Main Event final table here in 2014, finishing in 16th place in the PCA. He eclipsed that result this time, but his run toward the title once again came up just short. On what would be the last hand of the night, Allison moved in for about 18 big blinds with pocket fours, and Michael Gentili put him at risk with pocket nines. Another nine on the flop all but ended Allson's hopes, and two cards later, he was eliminated in seventh place to signal the end of play.

PokerStars Championship Main Event Final Day:
Seat 1: Michael Vela - 1,755,000
Seat 2: Christian Harder - 5,985,000
Seat 3: Rasmus Glæsel - 1,560,000
Seat 4: Aleksei Opalikhin - 4,590,000
Seat 5: Cliff Josephy - 1,240,000
Seat 6: Michael Gentili - 6,175,000

Everyone left is guaranteed to earn six figures on Saturday, with a top prize of $480,012 reserved for the winner. Blinds will be 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante when play resumes, putting the average stack north of 60 big blinds.

The final day of the PokerStars Championship Main Event begins at noon, and the cards-up PokerStars TV broadcast goes on air one hour later.

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chris   United States. Jan 15 2017 08:01. Posts 5503

Josephy just off his WSOP ME FT too

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[GiTM]-Ace   United States. Jan 15 2017 12:52. Posts 1585

Bax killing it right now lol

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