We watched Bryn Kenney take down the $100,000 Super High Roller to assist kick off this PokerStars Caribbean Adventure festival. Then Steve O'Dwyer added yet one more high roller trophy to his collection after winning the $50,000 Single-Day High Roller.

Today the third and final high roller of this year's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure got underway, a $25,000 buy-in, single re-entry event, and after someday of play Dustin Johns sits atop yet one more talent-rich field after spinning his starting stack of 50,000 the entire way as much as 298,100 to finish Day 1.

Dustin Johns

As expected this final high roller of the festival drew another star-studded field with several seats at every table full of poker's top tournament talent. Many were here to start out the day, then gradually players who'd gone deep over on the whole Event were coming over besides after busting, among them Davidi Kitai who finished 70th, Jeff Gross 68th, and at last Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier who made all of it of ways to 20th within the Main.

By the dinner break Nick Maimone gave the impression to be the pace-setter with Brian Yoon, Isaac Baron, and Aleksei Platonov. Before long, though, Olivier Busquet pushed up the leaderboard, boosted largely by busting out fellow high roller star Mustapha Kanit.

By the dinner break there have been greater than 170 entries total, but players continued to reach thereafter with Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu the primary to sit post-dinner. Meanwhile new players kept arriving while others who were busted were re-entering, pushing the full up over 200 because the night wore on.

One of these late arrivers was Negreanu's fellow red spade sporter, Liv Boeree of Team PokerStars Pro. Alas for Boeree, her stay was short-lived after she first ran sevens into Salman Behbehani's pocket aces, then rebought and immediately thereafter was busted by Kanit after running jacks into his aces.

Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree

Meanwhile others thrived today, including Robert Gorodetsky (294,400), Brian Yoon (294,000), and Jared Jaffee (293,300) who will all be only a few big blinds clear of Johns to begin Day 2.

Jared Jaffee

Others with big stacks to finish the night include Isaac Baron (258,700), Olivier Busquet (257,400), and Faraz Jaka (254,900). And of the Team PokerStars Pros, Jason Mercier may be returning to 81,800 after putting in place a few hours on the end of the night, Andre Akkari likewise made it through with 59,100, and Daniel Negreanu will return to a brief stack of 19,500.

Steve O'Dwyer (on a second try) continues to be within the mix in addition with 47,600, as is Daniel Dvoress (who cashed in both the $100K SHR and $50K HR) with 51,400. And three-time Super Bowl champion Richard Seymour also made it through on a second entry, finishing with 43,700. Players who entered and were felted twice on Day 1 besides Boeree and Kanit were Bryn Kenney, Nick Petrangelo, Calvin Anderson, Dani Stern, Igor Kurganov, Govert Metaal, and Joe Kuether.

In the top a complete of 106 players made it through to tomorrow from the 214 total entries -- again, with re-entering still available for individuals who haven't done so yet until the beginning of play tomorrow. AN ENTIRE list of end-of-day-1 chip counts are available here.

Join us tomorrow starting at 12 noon when Day 2 of the $25,000 High Roller continues to roll onward toward Thursday's final table.

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Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.

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