Day 3

PCA 2012: Bilokur wins $1.1 million high roller, Duhamel second

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It was a final table perfect as a send-off for the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. There were no weak links, no one out of place, no anomalies in ability. Just eight great players in peak form meeting for one last day to decide the winner of the $25,000 High...more


PCA 2012: When live poker just isn't enough

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The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has been a mammoth festival of live poker with tournaments of all formats and buy-ins catering for every player. What's more, it has given online terrors more used to clicking buttons to make bets the chance to use real chips at real tables instead. Those online...more


PCA 2012: The welcome face in the crowd

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It's not unusual for people to want to watch events like yesterday's main event or today's high roller final. A certain breed can happily spend a couple of hours glued to the action, and might rush in from the beach, the bar, or wherever, to see the heads-up conclusion and...more

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Day 2

PCA 2012: Jason Koon leads high rollers but Duhamel in pursuit

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You shouldn't be reading this. At least not yet. No, it's not because we're breaking some 40 minute rule that embargoes the results of the high roller until the live stream has finished streaming. It's because we expected the 56 remaining returning players to take all night, playing down...more


PCA 2012: The business end of the high roller event

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If anyone thought he high roller event would be anything like the main - whereby all those short stacks feel nothing but gay relief and move all-in with reckless abandon -- they were wrong. For the high rollers there's some comfort in a return for their money, but the...more


PCA 2012: Quiet bubble pop

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When the bubble burst in the PCA Main Event on Tuesday, loud whooping and cheering swept the room. Some 160 players had just made themselves at least $15,000 and they were happy. For many, this was their biggest live score; a dream realised and a first return on a poker...more

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Day 1

PCA 2012: Nick Yunis writing unlikely story in $25,000 High Roller

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Nick Yunis promised the story would get better, and it did. The man who won a satellite entry to the PCA $25,000 High Roller last night, busted out in the first three levels today and then won a last-minute single table satellite to get back in and finish Day 1...more


PCA 2012: Two world champs and a McLovin

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What is McLovin doing playing in the $25,000 High Roller? Hold on one second, that's not McLovin, that's Noah Schwartz, winner of the $5,000 PLO turbo side event of last week. But it does look like him, so much so he's even wearing a McLovin t-shirt. If you don't know...more


PCA 2012: Augdal flattens Cajelais

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Erik Cajelais is a big guy. Tattoos cover his arms and he usually sports an unhappy scowl that even in the very lightest of terms says 'don't talk to me'. I can't imagine it would be easy to knock him out, at the poker or off, but it's something Terje...more

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