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Toby Lewis is leading the $5,300 PCA 2016 Main Event at the end of Day 1a. The 26-year-old Englishman has made his way to the group of EPT champions back in season 7, when he took down the Main Event in Vilamoura for €467,836 - his best result among $2.7 million collected in live tournament cashes. He's been regular on the EPT scene for years, cashing in nine Main Events so far. He cashed once at the PCA before, finishing 34th back in 2011.

Ranked #20 in the England all-time money list, Lewis is also successful online. He's known as "810ofclubs" on PokerStars, where he earned both TCOOP and WCOOP titles. Two years back, Lewis fell shy of completing his COOP hattrick; he was a runner-up in a SCOOP event. Overall, he has over $780k in profit on PokerStars and also added a Full Tilt FTOPS title worth $253k.

Lewis bagged 188,000 to finish Day 1a with a solid distance ahead of the rest of the remaining field. There were 210 players competing on Day 1a and 131 survived for Day 2.

American oil industry businesswoman Kathy Lehne, who became the second female to ever cash in the PCA Super High Roller last night, continues running great here at the PCA as she built her stack up to 130,100 on Day 1a. Other notable players with big stacks include Andrey Zaichenko (119,500), Anton Astapau (104,100), Taylor Paur (100,000) and Olivier Busquet (90,600).

Representing the red spade, Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker (75,900), top professional golfer and PokerStars sponsored player Sergio Garcia (63,900) and Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo (29,000) will all come back for Day 2. Unfortunately, Team PokerStars SportStar Ronaldo won't repeat his last year's deep run (26th) as the Brazilian football legend was one of the first casualties of Day 1a.

The PCA has been part of the European Poker Tour since 2008 with Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier being the first player to lift the EPT trophy here in the Bahamas. Last season, Kevin Schulz beat a 816-strong field to take the title along with the $1,491,580 first prize.

PCA 2016 Main Event Day 1a top five chip counts:
1st - Toby Lewis, UK, PokerStars player, 188,000
2nd - Boyuan Qu, USA, 149,800
3rd - Kathy Lehne, USA, 130,100
4th - Andrey Zaichenko, Russia, PokerStars player, 119,500
5th - Ryan Blank, USA, 114,400

POKERSTARS CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE MAIN EVENT HISTORY:
2004: 221 players, $1,657,500 prize pool, Gus Hansen (Denmark) for $455,780
2005: 461 players, $3,487,200 prize pool, John Gale (UK) for $890,600
2006: 724 players, $5 647 200 prize pool, Steve Ambrose (Canada) for $1,388,600
2007: 937 players, $7,063,842 prize pool, Ryan Daut (USA) for $1,535,255
2008 (EPT4): 1,136 players, $8,562,976 prize pool, Bertrand Grospellier (France) for $2,000,000
2009 (EPT5): 1,347 players, $12,674,000 prize pool, Poorya Nazari (Canada) for $3,000,000
2010 (EPT6): 1,529 players, $14,831,300 prize pool, Harrison Gimbel (USA) for $2,200,000
2011 (EPT7): 1,560 players, $15,132,000 prize pool, Galen Hall (USA) for $2,300,000
2012 (EPT8): 1,072 players, $10,398,400 prize pool, John Dibella (USA) for $1,775,000
2013 (EPT9): 987 players, $9,573,900 prize pool, Dimitar Danchev (Bulgaria) for $1,859,000
2014 (EPT10): 1,031 players, $10,070,000 prize pool, Dominik Panka (Poland) for $1,423,096
2015 (EPT11): 816 players, $7,915,200 prize pool, Kevin Schulz (USA) for $1,491,580

THREE TABLES LEFT IN LAPT BAHAMAS; AKKARI STILL IN
Day 2 of LAPT Bahamas started with 220 players with Tyler Hurman leading the way. Play moved quickly and the bubble burst when Ben Heath, from the UK, ran queens into aces of canadian Thomas Taylor. With that bustout, 127 players secured at least $3,460. Amongst the players who cashed but failed to move into Day 3 were Vicente Delgado (126th), Team PokerStars Pro Barry Greenstein (122nd), Ryan Riess (109th), Joe Cada (103rd), Dani Stern (95th), Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez (88th), Friend of PokerStars Felipe "Mojave" Ramos (72nd), Elio Fox (51st) and PCA Main Event finalist Juan Martin Pastor (43rd), Chris Moorman (39th), Marvin Rettenmaier (32nd) and the defending champion Josh Kay, who was eliminated in 26th place.

Currently, there are only three tables left in the LAPT Bahamas Main Event including Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari, Ole Schemion, Mike Leah, Ismael Bojang and PCA 2015 $25k High Roller runner-up Joe Kuether. They're all in contention for the title and a $308,220 first prize. There were 851 entries to the LAPT Bahamas, creating a $1,650,940 prize pool.

TAILGATE NFL PLAYOFFS PARTY
Team PokerStars Pro & 2003 World Champion Chris Moneymaker is hosting the second PCA tailgate party for NFL fans in the Player Lounge from at 7.15pm tomorrow. All players are welcome to join in the fun with food, football, music, beer pong and free-to-enter squares competition.

SATURDAY ACTION AT THE PCA
As well as Day 1b of the PCA Main Event, the final day of the $2k LAPT Bahamas Main Event and the PCA 2016 Charity Invitational tourney (see below), tomorrow’s action includes a $50k One-Day High Roller (with Single Re-Entry), a $1k PLO tourney, $1k NL Turbo "Win the Button", $5k NL Turbo with "$2,500 Bounties", $2k PLO Turbo, three more $120 Flipouts and a $1k NL Hyper Turbo "$500 Bounties & Win the Button".

HU4ROLLZ competition with players taking on Team PokerStars members Marc-Andre Ladouceur, Liv Boeree and Randy Lew in free-to-enter Heads-Up Challenges running 2-7pm in the Player Lounge.

PCA 2016 INVITATIONAL CHARITY TOURNAMENT
Football legend Ronaldo, top golfer Sergio Garcia, Team PokerStars Pro and 2003 world champion Chris Moneymaker, Maria Ho and Fatima Moreira de Melo will be joining EPT presenter Joe Stapleton for tomorrow’s PCA 2016 Invitational Charity tourney. The six-handed NL single table tourney kicks off at 1pm and will be broadcast on EPTLive from 2pm (ET). Stapleton will run proceedings and ensure plenty of banter and shenanigans at the table. The prizes are: 1st = $10,000 2nd = $5,000 3rd = $2,500 going to the winners’ nominated charities.

BREAKFAST WITH THE PROs
The ever-popular Team Pro Q&A sessions will be back tomorrow at 11am with a session called 'Twitcharama' hosted by Jason Somerville, Randy "Nanonoko" Lew, Celina Lin and Jaime Staples. Sunday's session is 'More than just a game' featuring Jennifer Shahade and ElkY.

MEDIA ROOM/REGISTRATION
The media room is called Eros; media accreditation is open from 11am. All media attending the PCA are prohibited from any kind of gaming anywhere in the Bahamas for the duration of the event. This includes off-property casinos, online or in your hotel room.

MEDIA GUIDELINES
You must credit PokerStars in the first instance of your event coverage and write PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in full, not just PCA. The PSLive guidelines provides further general information.

PCA 2016
A record 104 tourneys are taking place at Atlantis during the 2016 PCA festival. Aside from the Super High Roller, second LAPT Bahamas Main Event (unlimited re-entries, starts January 7, now with reduced $2,200 buy-in) and PCA 2016 Main Event, there is also a $50k One-Day High Roller Single Re-Entry on January 9. The three-day $25k High Roller starts Jan 12 and the $600 Ladies Event on Jan 14. Check out the PCA 2016 promo video here.

TEAM POKERSTARS
Numerous members of Team PokerStars are heading to the PCA including Barry Greenstein, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Jason Somerville, Vanessa Selbst and Liv Boeree. To arrange interviews, please email press@pokerstars.com.

POKERSTARS BLOG / SOCIAL MEDIA
Full reports and updates can be found on the PokerStars blog. For social media, see @PokerStars_PCA.

PCA WEBCASTS
EPTLive will be broadcasting live from the final day of the $100k Super High Roller - cards-up and starting at 2pm EST (subject to 1-hour security delay). The action continues January 9 with live coverage of the PCA Invitational Charity tourney from 2pm (EST) and then the cameras switch to Day 2 of the PCA Main Event on January 10. Coverage continues daily until the January 14 cards-up final table.

Vilamoura champ Toby Lewis is leading the PCA 2016 Main Event after Day 1a. (Photo: Neil Stoddart)