After six years and many million dollars awarded throughout a large amount of tournaments, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is back and bigger than ever before. There are a total of fifty events scheduled in just twelve days of play. The main event had a list of registered players that exceeded eleven hundred before the live registration began over twelve hours ago.
The main event will start today with a buy-in of $10,300 and thousands of players will be fighting to follow in the footsteps of Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Poorya Nazari, and other past PCA main event winners.
The first PCA had the participation of 221 players, and it was hosted in a cruise ship that went to Miami, Jamaica, Mexico and the Caymans. When the trip was over the poker pro Gus Hansen was declared the winner for over $1.6 million in profit. The year after that PokerStars took the event to the land based location of the Atlantis Resort and Casino. The beginning of ’05 saw 461 players traveling to the Bahamas to take a shot at the great prize at stake. That year John Gale was the main event winner for $890K.
In ’06 the field grew to 724 players and the main event winner was Steve Paul-Ambrose, who took home over $1.3 million. After his win at the PCA he signed with PokerStars and still remains with the site.
The Americans had an outstanding performance at the ’07 PCA, taking the top thirteen places and among a field of 937 players. Jersey’s Ryan Daut fought his way through and managed to outplay all of his opponents to take down the $1.5 million first place prize.
Things changed in ’08 and the World Poker Tour was no longer involved with the PCA, but the European Poker Tour showed interest in the event and became a partner. The event made history by having more than one thousand players participating in the main event. That year the PokerStars Pro ElkY managed to walk away victorious after outplaying the 1,136 player field and walking away with $2 million.
Year after year the PCA has managed to capture the attention of more players world wide and 2009 was no exception as 1,347 players entered for a total prize pool of over $12 million. The PokerStars Pro Alexandre Gomes had an outstanding performance and finished in fourth place, but the main prize was won by the Canadian player Poorya Nazari, he took home $3 million.
The 2010 PCA event looks to build on all of this success as it crowns a new multi-million dollar champion.
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