Latest 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Post

Real-time updates from Level 30 of the 2009 PCA are brought to you by Howard Swains, Paul 'Dr. Pauly' McGuire, Stephen Bartley, and Brad Willis. Click refresh to see the latest updates. Levels are 75 minutes long and blinds are 150,000-300,000 (30,000). Last updated: 9:42pm 9:53pm--Nazari relishes his win The...more

Real-time updates from Level 29 of the 2009 PCA are brought to you by Howard Swains, Paul 'Dr. Pauly' McGuire, Stephen Bartley, and Brad Willis. Click refresh to see the latest updates. Levels are 75 minutes long and blinds are 100,000-200,000 (20,000). Last updated: 8:45pm 8:53--Walking to break The last...more

Real-time updates from Level 28 of the 2009 PCA are brought to you by Howard Swains, Paul 'Dr. Pauly' McGuire, Stephen Bartley, and Brad Willis. Click refresh to see the latest updates. Levels are 75 minutes long and blinds are 75,000-150,000 (15,000). 7:27pm--Level ends Players are on a short break...more

Around these parts, if you want to sit down for a decent meal, you are advised to get a reservation. Otherwise, you may go hungry or end up eating a tuna sandwich out of a deli cooler. If you have the right amount of money in your pocket, you can...more

Real-time updates from Level 25 of the 2009 PCA are brought to you by Howard Swains, Paul 'Dr. Pauly' McGuire, and Brad Willis. Click refresh to see the latest updates. Levels are 75 minutes long and blinds are 40,000-80,000 (5,000). 1:36am--Jan Fernandez Eliminated in 9th Place; Final Table Set Poorya...more

Real-time updates from Level 24 of the 2009 PCA are brought to you by Howard Swains, Paul 'Dr. Pauly' McGuire, and Brad Willis. Click refresh to see the latest updates. Levels are 75 minutes long and blinds are 30,000-60,000 (5,000). Post last updated at 12:00am 12:00am--Players on break After 12...more

This is a day that might have lasted long into the night and, quite possibly, deep into tomorrow. Compressing a field of 102 players to the 32 needed for day four's action could easily have taken 12 hours or more. As it is, I write this only six hours of...more

Real-time updates from Level 19 of the 2009 PCA are brought to you by Howard Swains, Paul "Dr Pauly" McGuire, and Brad Willis. Click refresh to see the latest updates. Levels are 75 minutes long and blinds are 8,000-16,000 (1,500). Post last updated at 6:54pm 6:54pm--Michael Durrer Eliminated in 33rd...more

Real-time updates from Level 18 of the 2009 PCA are brought to you by Howard Swains, Paul "Dr Pauly" McGuire, and Brad Willis. Click refresh to see the latest updates. Levels are 75 minutes long and blinds are 6,000-12,000 (1,500). Post last updated at 5:59pm 6:08pm--Break time The remaining 36...more

Pulitzer prize winning poet and writer Carl Sandburg once said, "Nothing happens unless first a dream." At the start of Day 2, 380 players entered the Imperial Ballroom with a dream dancing around their heads. That dream? Winning the 2009 PCA and taking home a cool $3 million. Each player...more

Real-time updates from Level 14 of the 2009 PCA are brought to you by Howard Swains, Paul "Dr Pauly" McGuire, and Brad Willis. Click refresh to see the latest updates. Levels are 75 minutes long and blinds are 2,500-5,000 (400). Post last updated at 9.00pm 9:21pm--Day 2 play ends--David Baker...more

Real-time updates from Level 12 of the 2009 PCA are brought to you by Howard Swains, Paul "Dr Pauly" McGuire, and Brad Willis. Click refresh to see the latest updates. Levels are 75 minutes long and blinds are 2,500-4,000 (400). Post last updated at 7:44pm 7:44pm--Players on break The 142...more

If we let our imaginations wander, we see a benevolent poker deity sitting on a cloud of cash with a quaint abacus at his fingertips. It is he who will decide for what these tenacious PCA runners will fight. In our wildest of dreams we predicted a $2.5 million first...more

Welcome to the after Midnight edition of Day 1B at the PCA. We're currently on Level 8 with approximately 230 players remaining. Victor Ramdin found himself involved in a massive pot. He opened with a min-raise. His opponent (who was drinking a can of Sands beer) popped him with a...more

Play has entered the final level of day 1B; indeed it's the final level of two day ones during which two thirds of the 1,347 starters have departed into the Bahamian night. Around this time yesterday, Felipe Ramos started his incredible charge to the chip lead. The PokerStars player from...more

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure might have outgrown its name these days. Really it's more of an extravaganza than a plain old adventure: countless tournaments, thousands of players, millions of bucks. We're only just through the first of six days and we've already seen enough action to last right through...more

The six seat had no part in the hand, but he was shaking his head like everybody else in the room. "Would you deal him a cooler? Somebody needs to cool that guy off." The three seat--who had also not been in the hand-- looked like he'd just escaped death....more

I caught the action on the flop. The board read Kh-Ks-8s. A very nervous looking player in Seat 1 fired out 4,500. Barry Greenstein had around 25,000 or so stacked up in two columns. He reached down and grabbed a column with each hand and announced that he was all...more

64 players began the The World Championship of Battleship Poker on Thursday. They bought in for $2,000 a piece and were battling it out for the $44,800 first place prize and the prestige and honor that accompanies the World Championship of Battleship Poker. The top 8 places would make the...more

And we're down to two players in the 2009 World Championship of Battleship Poker. The Final Four was a best-of-three series. Former champion Sorel Mizzi (Clubs Bracket Winner) took on Jared Bleznick (Diamonds Bracket Winner), while Bahbak Oboodi (Hearts Bracket Winner) played Richard Gryko (Spades Bracket Winner). Semi-Finals Results: Jared...more

The final eight players returned to the Imperial Ballroom for the conclusion of the World Championship of Battleship Poker. Actually, it was only seven players initially. Justin Bonomo arrived a few minutes late against his opponent Richard Gryko from London. Elite 8 Results: Clubs Bracket: Sorel Mizzi defeated Ryan Gartitta...more

Any player can win a poker tournament in any number of circumstances. An individual can sometimes go on the biggest rush of their life and make all the right decisions at all the pivotal moments; another can just get lucky time and again. But sometimes, every now and then,...more

You can follow all the action from start to finish on EPTLive with expert commentary and analysis all the way through and highlights will be updated here throughout the day. Click refresh for the latest real-time updates. Levels are 60 minutes long and we play down to a winner....more

You can follow all the action from start to finish on EPTLive with expert commentary and analysis all the way through and highlights will be updated here throughout the day. Click refresh for the latest real-time updates. Levels are 60 minutes long and we play down to a winner....more