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The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is an annual televised poker tournament.

History

The event was first held in 2004 and was originally co-sponsored by PokerStars and the World Poker Tour. In 2008, the event moved from the WPT to the European Poker Tour. In 2010, the event was moved again and served as the inaugural event of the North American Poker Tour. In 2017 the tournament was the inaugural event of the new PokerStars Championship tour and renamed PokerStars Championship Bahamas. The name was changed back to the PCA for 2018 and the buy-in restored to $10,000.^[1]

In 2004, the event took place on the Royal Caribbean Voyager of the Seas cruise ship.^[2] For 15 years (from 2005 to 2019), the event took place at the Atlantis Paradise Island and after a three-year break, it returns to the Bahamas at the brand new Baha Mar Resort.

The 2011 PCA commenced on January 4, 2011. Over fifty events took place over ten days,^[3] including the main event with an estimated prize pool of $20 million. Players either buy into the main event directly for $10,300, or they may win their way into the event via satellites running on PokerStars and at the event. The main event final table was aired live on ESPN2, featuring commentary by James Hartigan and Daniel Negreanu.

John Dibella, a 43-year-old stock trader from New York, won the 2012 PCA for $1,775,000. Dibella won a live $1,000 satellite into the $10,000 Main Event and is the first amateur player to win the tournament.

In 2019, PokerStars announced that the PCA would be discontinued in 2020.^[4]^[5]

In April 2022, PokerStars announces the return of the PCA and PSPC to the Bahamas in 2023 at a new location the Baha Mar Resort.^[6]^[7]

Main event winners

Year	Buy-in	Winner	Prize	Entries	Total prize pool	Results
2004	$7,500	Gus Hansen^[8]	$455,780	221	$1,657,500	[1]
2005	$8,000	John Gale^[9]	$890,600	461	$3,487,200	[2]
2006	$7,800	Steve Paul-Ambrose^[10]	$1,388,600	724	$5,647,200	[3]
2007	$8,000	Ryan Daut^[11]	$1,535,255	937	$7,063,842	[4]
2008	$8,000	Bertrand Grospellier^[12]	$2,000,000	1,136	$8,562,976	[5]
2009	$10,000	Poorya Nazari^[13]	$3,000,000	1,347	$12,674,000	[6]
2010	$10,300	Harrison Gimbel^[14]	$2,200,000	1,529	$14,831,300	[7]
2011	$10,300	Galen Hall^[15]	$2,300,000	1,560	$15,132,000	[8]
2012	$10,300	John Dibella^[16]	$1,775,000	1,072	$10,398,400	[9]
2013	$10,300	Dimitar Danchev^[17]	$1,859,000	987	$9,573,900	[10]
2014	$10,300	Dominik Pańka^[18]	$1,423,096	1,031	$10,070,000	[11]
2015	$10,300	Kevin Schulz^[19]	$1,491,580	816	$7,915,200	[12]
2016	$5,300	Mike Watson^[20]	$728,325	928	$4,500,800	[13]
2017	$5,000	Christian Harder^[21]	$429,664	738	$3,376,712	[14]
2018	$10,300	Maria Lampropulos^[22]	$1,081,100	582	$5,645,400	[15]
2019	$10,300	David Rheem^[23]	$1,567,100	865	$8,390,500	[16]
2023	$10,300	Michel Dattani^[24]	$1,183,037	889	$8,623,300^[25]	[17]

High Roller winners

Year	Buy-in	Winner	Prize	Entries	Total Prize Pool	Results
2009	$25,000	Bertrand Grospellier	$433,500	48	$1,200,000	[18]
2010	$25,500	William Reynolds	$576,240	84	$2,058,000	[19]
2011	$25,500	Will Molson	$1,072,850	151	$3,775,500	[20]
2011	$10,200	Alexander Kostritsyn	$263,840	68	$659,600	[21]
2012	$25,500	Alex Bilokur	$1,134,930	141 + (7 Rebuys)	$3,626,000	[22]
2012	$10,200	Shawn Buchanan	$202,360	87	$843,900	[23]
2013	$25,500	Vanessa Selbst	$1,424,420	161 + (43 Rebuys)	$4,998,000	[24]
2014	$25,000	Jake Schindler	$1,279,880	198 + (49 Rebuys)	$6,051,500	[25]
2015	$25,000	Ilkin Garibli	$1,105,040	200 + (69 Rebuys)	$6,456,000	[26]
2016	$50,000	Steve O'Dwyer	$945,495	80	$3,860,000	[27]
2016	$25,000	Nicholas Maimone	$996,480	173 + (52 Rebuys)	$5,400,000	[28]
2017	$25,750	Luc Greenwood	$779,268	121 + (38 Rebuys)	$3,895,500	[29]
2018	$50,000	Steve O'Dwyer	$769,500	46	$2,263,200	[30]
2018	$25,000	Christopher Kruk	$836,350	144	$3,484,800	[31]
2019	$25,000	Martin Zamani	$895,110	115 + (47 Rebuys)	$3,849,930	[32]
2023	$25,000	Dylan Smith	$364,440	32 + (12 Rebuys)	$1,056,440	[33]
2023	$25,000	Ognyan Dimov^[26]	$990,655	187	$4,444,055	[34]

Super High Roller winners

Year	Buy-in	Winner	Prize	Entries	Total Prize Pool	Results
2011	$100,500	Eugene Katchalov	$1,500,000	38	$3,743,000	[35]
2012	$100,000	Viktor Blom	$1,254,400	30 + (2 Rebuys)	$3,136,000	[36]
2013	$100,000	Scott Seiver	$2,003,480	43 + (12 Rebuys)	$5,724,180	[37]
2014	$100,000	Fabian Quoss	$1,629,940	46 + (10 Rebuys)	$5,433,120	[38]
2015	$100,000	Steve O'Dwyer	$1,872,580	50 + (16 Rebuys)	$6,402,000	[39]
2016	$100,000	Bryn Kenney	$1,687,800	44 + (14 Rebuys)	$5,626,000	[40]
2017	$100,000	Jason Koon	$1,650,300	41 + (13 Rebuys)	$5,239,080	[41]
2018	$100,000	Cary Katz	$1,492,340	36 + (12 Rebuys)	$4,737,600	[42]
2019	$100,000	Sam Greenwood	$1,775,460	43 + (18 Rebuys)	$5,918,220	[43]
2023	$100,000	Isaac Haxton^[27]	$1,082,230	40 + (9 Rebuys)	$4,753,980^[28]	[44]
2023	$250,000	Sam Greenwood^[29]	$3,276,760	30 + (9 Rebuys)	$9,498,060	[45]