Poker news tagged with '2014 pca main event'

After 16 hours of play, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event final table concluded this morning with Dominik Panka as the champion! The Polish pro brought the 4th largest stack to the final table of eight, and he defeated Mike "Timex" McDonald, who had a fantastic chance of becoming the first player ever to win two EPT Main Event titles, heads-up to claim his first EPT title and $1.4 million in prize money!

Read more » PCA 2014: Congratulations to Dominika Panka - The First Polish EPT Champion!

There are 234 of 1031 players remaining in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event after Day 1A and B and Day 2. The current chip leader is Pascal Lefrancois with 412,000 chips. The French-Canadian pro won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2010 and finished 11th in the main event the same year. It will be interesting to follow him on the leader board during Day 3!

Read more » PCA Main Event: 234 Players Through to Day 3!

The 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event is underway and the two starting days are already in the books. 184 of 295 players (Dylan Hortin topped leader board with 160k) survived Day 1A and 475 of 710 players (Shankar Pillai came out on top with 173k) made it through Day 1B, which means that 659 players will return to play today! The overall chip leader is Shankar Pillai (picture) with 173,900 chips and there are lots of big names left in the competition, including PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst, Eugene Katchalov, Marcel Luske and Liv Boeree.

We will be back with another report tomorrow morning. The prize pool and payout structure should be announced by then. Stay tuned!