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

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

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

In the shadow of the main event final table, the $25,000 High Rollers played on in almost reverent silence as the returning 79 players set about surviving what most acknowledged was going to be a very long day. Over on the main television stage friends of the finalists, some more...more

If you were to discount the One Drop tournament then today marks Shaun Deeb's largest tournament score - and he hasn't even been knocked out yet. Although the records show that Deeb's largest score is a $1,000,000 for his second-place finish in a mega satellite into the One Drop tournament,...more

You may recall the name Vladimir Troyanovsky from the $100,000 Super High Roller final table earlier this week. Troyanovsky, from Russia, finished in seventh place, surprising a few people along the way and massively eclipsing his previous tournament best. Well, he's back and within the last two tables of the...more

If at first you don't succeed, it will just cost you another $25,000 to try, try again. Today marked the start of 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller, a $25,000 buy-in re-entry tournament that saw bullets flying in so many direction, it was impossibile to watch the prize pool number...more

"Are we just playing one more level?" asked Jason Somerville. No, two more he was told by the floorman. And you're coming back to resume play at noon tomorrow. Somerville did not look thrilled. "So we're playing to 2.30am and then coming back at noon?" he asked. Yes, that's about...more

Your average High Roller is a railbird's dream, possibly even more so than a Super High Roller, because on the EPT or here at the PCA you get massive fields jammed full of big names. This $25,000 field is something else though: 176 entries and 21 re-buys. Ludicrous. Every table...more