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Sunday Million: TroopTroop1 marches to victory, claims $234k
Germany's TroopTroop1 had a spectacular end of 2013 when he made the final table of WCOOP Challenge Series #5 and scored over $115k in a five-way deal. For most of us mere mortals, that's a...
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MPC20 Countdown: Top 10 Moments
It's hard to imagine we've already gone through 19 Macau Poker Cup (MPC) tournaments in just over five years but January 10, 2014 kicks off MPC20 - with a record-setting Red Dragon main event expected....
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PCA 2014: $100,000 Super High Roller Day 2 seat draw
We've just been given the Day 2 seat draw, so with no further ado... Table 1 2. Tobias Reinkemeier, Germany, 200,500 3. Daniel Stern, USA, 98,500 5. Jonathan Duhamel, Canada, Team PokerStars Pro,...
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PCA 2014: Bell tolls on Super High Roller registration
Well, that's that. At noon today, the $100,000 Super High Roller registration desk battened down the hatches, and the 40-odd remaining players could start planning what they'd do with the massive...
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PokerStars weekend review (6 January 2014)
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is under way, albeit currently with just the $100,000 Super High Rollers trading blows at the table. While that took some of the best tournament players in the world...
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PCA 2014: Behind the curtain of the biggest show on sand
When you see the PCA on TV, you see poker. That's by design, because that's what you want to see. What it takes to get it to that point is something you might never know. That's also by design. There's...
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PCA 2014: Screwed poker tables, kit, one; for the repair of
Reflections on the early levels of Day 2. How do you take your Super High Roller? "Esfandiari took one, and Laliberte took two." Like tea, everyone has their own tastes when it comes to a Super High...
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PCA 2014: Introducing Mr Average
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is an enormous event, but it's not so large that the Atlantis Resort can't accommodate it as well as thousands of other guests who are in no way related to poker....
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PCA 2014: Scott Seiver, linebacker, hired gun
Jason Koon was doing an interview with CardPlayer magazine's video crew when Scott Seiver--with a running start--took flight. Like Troy Polamalu with less hair, Seiver sailed across the tropical carpet...
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PCA 2014: Kenney clings to Super High Roller hopes
With fifteen players remaining in the 2014 PCA Super High Roller event and Team Pro Vanessa Selsbt in a dominant chip lead, Brynn Kenney is still alive, but will need some help to make the final table....
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PCA 2014: Describe Daniel Negreanu in one word
He's Kid Poker and the Poker Player of the Decade, but if you tried to use any of those phrases to describe Daniel Negreanu when Sarah Grant stuck her microphone in your face today, you'd have been...
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PCA 2014: Dan Shak inches in front of Vanessa Selbst ahead of Super High...
To hear that Vanessa Selbst is in complete control of a high stakes poker tournament is hardly news these days. It was a similar story here 12 months ago, when Selbst, who had become the first woman to...
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PCA 2014: The *real* start of the New Year
In something called the real world, it is the morning of Tuesday, January 7, 2014. But here in the Bahamas, where we're feeling the so-called Polar Vortex as little more than some light breeze and some...
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Ladies only: Are women's events good for poker?
The question arises often and has been discussed more than a few times in poker media. Are women-only tournaments good for poker? With a focus on that topic, the PokerStars.TV videographers at EPT...
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Mission Accomplished! #JanDailyChallenge
Win a ticket into the The Big $11 by taking part in the #JanDailyChallenge on Twitter. 1. You need to sign up for the January Daily Challenge promotion, which you can find out more by clicking here....
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PCA 2014: Pitbull qualifier up for big league fight with WSOP champ
Meet Marco Palombi, 37, from Canada. Qualifying online in a PokerStars $700 qualifier, Polombi knows he is in the big league today. No stranger to the Bahamas having cashed twice in PCA side events...
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PCA 2014: $100,000 Super High Roller Final Table Player Profiles
Seat 1: Ole Schemion, 21, Germany - 280,000 Ole Schemion has only five big blinds entering the final table and will need to double up more than once to compete. But if he does, he can be among the most...
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PCA 2014: flying the Turks & Caicos flag in paradise
For the most part, the PCA beach life is a novelty for those that make the journey to paradise each year. But there are five competitors in this week's Main Event field for whom it's nothing new. The...
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PCA 2014: David Bach, gunslinger, on OFC, Latin America, and God
In 2005, I walked into the PCA here at Atlantis. One of the first people I saw was David "Gunslinger3" Bach. He was hard to miss. With his trademark hat and sunglasses, Bach looked the role of an old...
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PCA 2014: Streaky ElkY talks tendencies, Christmas trees and Negreanu's streak
ElkY, aka Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand Grospellier, is a bit of a PCA legend. Back in 2008, ElkY was one of the first really big PokerStars winners when he won $2,000,000 in a giant treasure chest....
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