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PCA 2013 in review: Selbst tops off a fantastic PCA as six bank more than a million

There aren't many festivals about where you can find six players banking more than a million dollars each. The PokerStars Caribbean is one of them. Scott Seiver and David 'Doc' Sands kicked off the festival with a first and second place in the $100,000 Super High Roller for $2,003,480 and $1,259,320 respectively. Dimitar Danchev and Joel Micka won a similar amount for their top two spots in the $10,000 Main Event; $1,859,000 and $1,190,000. Then, at the end of the festival, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst took down the $25,000...more

Super High Roller

PCA 2013: Players enter stage left as feature tables fired up

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The television set is back in service today after the celebratory scenes of the Scott Seiver and the Super High Rollers (not a bad name for a band) yesterday. The feature table and the secondary table hog the attention of the TV crews who have just refreshed their clip boards...more


PCA 2013: Scott Seiver wins PCA Super High Roller and $2,003,480

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All hail Scott Seiver, the new PCA Super High Roller champion, after a magnificent day of poker which he spent overturning a once mighty chip advantage of Doc Sands to lift the trophy. Scott Seiver Both Seiver and Sands duelled in a brief heads-up finale to what had been the...more


PCA 2013: One word to describe Viktor Blom?

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One word to describe a player? It sounds easy enough, unless the player you're trying to describe is a certain Viktor Blom. Viktor Blom in his victory position Blom is not be here to play the PCA this year, or to defend the High Roller title he won a year...more

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Side events and news

PCA 2013: Shannon Shorr takes down the $10,000 turbo for $160,610

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Every EPT and PCA festival ends up with a popular high stakes turbo. The PCA 2013 offering came in the shape of a $10,000 six-max turbo which pulled in 88 entries, including many that had played the $25,000 over the two days previous. Those high stakes guys, they don't like...more


PCA 2013: Dreams come true, charity shines in Women's Event

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This year's Women's Event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure was filled with fun players, interesting stories, and poker action at every turn. The tournament brought 66 players to the tables in the massive poker room set up for PCA players. That created a $66K prize pool, enough to pay out...more


PCA 2013: Affif Prado wins the PCA (mini) Main Event for $16,090

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Affif Prado is the PCA Main Event champion. No, scratch that, he's the mini Main Event champion. The Brazilian finished off his PCA with a solid $16,090 win in the $300 buy-in event that follows the same structure but plays with much shorter blind levels. Prado beat Englishman Ian Simpson...more

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Main Event

PCA 2013: Dimitar Danchev wins main event for $1,859,000

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Dimitar Danchev, a 27-year-old one-time European Poker Tour Sanremo runner-up, is the newest champion of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Danchev won his seat to the tenth annual PCA in a $700 qualifier, and after six days of play has turned his investment into $1,859,000. It is his native Bulgaria's first...more


PCA 2013: Micka up, his rail's pants down

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The exuberance of Joel Micka's rail cannot be overstated. There are not enough adjectives to properly describe the raucous, joyful, elated, cacophonous rumble that comes from the rail of the 2013 PCA main event. As a man who trades in words, I feel at a loss to properly impart just...more


PCA 2013: A meditation on Jerry Wong as Jason Bourne

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At this point in the day, as players have evaporated from the final table at a speed that can only be described as nuclear, it's tempting to look at the Jerry Wong story and want to turn the script into an action film. He was cast as the hero. The...more

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High Roller

PCA 2013: Vanessa Selbst makes history to win PCA High Roller and $1,424,420

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The talk before the High Roller final was of the record Vanessa Selbst looked certain to break. Selbst, 28, would become the highest-earning woman in poker if she finished fifth or better, overtaking Kathy Leibert with more than $6 million to her name. In the end Selbst cleared that mark,...more


2013 PCA: Vanessa Selbst becomes top-earning female tournament player

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Vanessa Selbst wanted only one thing when she walked in the room today. She wanted to win the PCA $25,000 High Roller and take home its $1,424,420 first prize. "I play for money," she said this morning. "I play for titles. I play for the fun of the game." That...more


PCA 2013: Deeb leads high roller final with Selbst set to make history

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A little after midnight this morning, nine high rollers were sitting around a table when suddenly a lightning bolt struck. It came in the form of a pair of aces, in the possession of Shaun Deeb, a lethal combination that Micah Raskin had no way of knowing about. At the...more

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