One week out of every year, the Atlantis resort is the home office of hundreds of professional poker players. For John Dibella, his wife Wendy, and their two girls, it's no office. It's a regular vacation spot. This week, Dibella's children are at home in New York going to school....more

Just a month ago, PokerStars player David Bernstein was dreaming of making the big time. He loved the game, but as he had never so much as played a live tournament, his chances of success were somewhat slim. Then something rather cool happened. After finishing up work one day, he...more

"My God!" someone exclaims. "I've never seen anyone's fingers work so fast." Neil Stoddart and his assistant Kim Curtin have taken over the stage of the 2012 PCA main event. Every few seconds, a strobe flashes while Stoddart and Curtin measure the lights. This final table will not start until...more

There was a curious atmosphere as the final table was forged from the 24 remaining players who returned to the tournament room at Atlantis today. Playing late into the night, with the clock nudging 12.30am, order, to a certain extent, had been given a temporary leave of absence, giving...more

We are down to just one table here at the PCA and it looks like chip leader Kyle Julius has been gifted the golden ticket. Julius has all the stacks that could do him damage to his right and the short stacks in a line to his left. European Poker...more

Everyone who arrived at the PCA this week got their hands on the official magazine of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. For the past three years at the PCA, these glossy magazines have greeted PCA travelers and have been the source of information and untold riches for the readers. Not only...more

Like dust motes in a sunlit room, PCA players get hard to pin down on Day 4. One minute they're sailing carefree at the rafters, and in a blink they're gone and forgotten as if they weren't ever there at all. It's a fickle business, poker. Defying that axiom, however,...more

The tournament floor seems to be getting busier, even as the number of players gets fewer. As the clock ticks down, just three tables are in action beyond the two feature tables, and the first hints of crowd trouble are brewing; curious railbirds fluttering forward to catch glimpse of...more

2010 World Champion and Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel has won the PCA $5,000 NL event for $239,830. The 24-year-old French-Canadian beat a clutch of other Team PokerStars Pros including Jason Mercier who came third for $80,460 and the current world champion Pius Heinz who came fifth for $45,980. Duhamel's...more

We were promised six levels for today. It was the sensible, prudent and time honoured choice; cutting the field by the required amount and leaving players a short day tomorrow. But in making that choice they could not have expected things to go so quickly. We mean really quick....more

"How much did you have at the start of the hand?" This was Xuan Liu staring intently at Nicholas Grippo on the button, who had three-bet her early position raise. The answer was around 200,000, about two-thirds of her own towers of yellow 1,000 and blue 5,000 chips. She passed....more

This story should have Barry Greenstein listed as a co-author, because, in all fairness, he wrote half of it. Greenstein is doing very well in the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event, but you don't need me to tell you that. Greenstein will tell you the whole story himself, as...more

We know these three things about Faraz Jaka. First, he could survive in the wild with a can of tuna and easy access to an able bartender. Second, his name is exceptionally fun to sing to the tune of Frère Jacques. Third, his performance on Day 2 of the PCA...more

In the same room Day 1 of the $100,000 Super High Roller played out, the high stakes games have been running. It is a place that only the biggest players and super rich can enter, let alone play within. As I linger outside, garnering several suspicious looks from the policeman...more

In 2002, during a practice round for the Masters at Augusta, Sergio Garcia did something spectacular. Renowned for his powerful drives, he sent his tee shot on the notorious par 5, 575-yard second hole a full 322 yards straight down the middle. His second shot, with a 2-iron, was smacked...more

In summing up the second day of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event here's what happened in the tournament room today. Alex Venovski may not have planned to do so but finished chip leader on 194,000. Several people, like Phil D'Auteuil on 165,000 and Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano...more

Luca Pagano has a dilemma. Does he buy some more underwear or keep on the ones he's wearing today? He is flying high in chips and may want to keep his lucky undergarments, but if not he'd have to buy some more because he has not seen his luggage since...more

Journalism is all about sources, both using and verifying them. When it turned out that a Swede was behind one table playing through to the end of the day fully loaded with red wine it was to roving poker and aviation reporter (and fellow Swede) Erik Rosenberg that we...more

There is one certain way to make sure you don't squander your chip lead after a healthy repast. You simply don't come back from dinner. This is the strategy employed by Russian businessman Alex Repik on Day 1A of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event. Repik, most famous in...more

A list was released a little while back by that website which lists live winnings, you know the one, showing the most internationally prolific tournament players. This was not a celebration of value but of intercontinental vigour, totalling the number of countries in which individual players have cashed. Topping...more

There are around one hundred tables in the main tournament room of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and Randy Lew is only allowed to play one of them today. He's a leashed dog, a grounded pilot, a caged bird. Forcing Lew to sit and look at one deck and a mere...more