PCA kicks off with high-roller event

(PRESS RELEASE) -- The wait is over! The must-play winter fixture for poker players around the world is finally here. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure gets under way this week on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, for an 11-day festival of poker that is the largest outside the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

A total of 48 events will make up the schedule, including a Super High Roller event with a $100,000 buy-in, which gets under way on January 6. At present there are more than 26 players registered for it, including Lex Veldhuis, Phil Laak, Bill Perkins, Humberto Brenes, Daniel Negreanu, Eugene Katchalov, Dan Shak, Bill Chen, Bryan Colin, Jason Mercier, Justin Smith, Scott Seiver, Bertrand Grospellier, Tom Marchese, Andrew Robl, Hoyt Corkins, Sorel Mizzi, Antonio Esfandiari, Masa Kagawa, Nick Schulman, Bryn Kenney, Matt Glantz, James Obst, Vivek Rajkumar, Shawn Buchanan and Ashton Griffin. With so many players having already bought in and more to come in the next 24 hours, it looks set to be the largest and richest Super High Roller poker tournament ever held!

Meanwhile, the World Cup of Poker returns again this year on January 14-15, while the flagship $10,000 Main Event, which runs from January 8-15, will this time feature a live televised final table (hole cards revealed), with a one-hour delay on ESPN and PokerStars.tv. For full details of all events go to the PCA website.