The $5,300 PCA 2016 Main Event is two levels into Day 2 and on the screens, the players can now see what they're competing for! There were 928 entries (including five no-shows) in to the flagship event of the festival, creating a $4,500,800 prize pool. The top 135 players will get paid and the last man standing is set to take $833,260, along with the title and coveted trophy.

Today, 25 players took advantage of late registered to enter the event on Day 2, including Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, PCA 2016 $100k Super High Roller winner Bryn Kenney, WCOOP 2014 World Champion Feder Holz, EPT11 Grand Final €50k One-Day High Roller winner Mustapha Kanit, LAPT Bahamas runner-up Taylor Von Kriegenbergh, Stephen Chidwick, Ole Schemion and Igor Kurganov.

At the moment, some 350 players are still in contention. Steve O'Dwyer, who won the PCA 2016 $50k High Roller earlier this morning, is among the current leaders and now sitting on a 200k+ stack.

PCA 2016 Main Event entry info:
Day 1a: 210 players
Day 1b: 688 players
Day 2: 25 players

AMERICANS DOMINATE THE PCA FIELD
Even though the PCA is held in the Bahamas, it's often considered a home stop for players from the United States and the Main Event nationality pie chart, which you can see below, proves this once again. Among the 923 players who entered, 304 came from the USA, more than a third of the entire field. Canada was in second place with 151 players (16%) and the UK lies third with 58 players (6%). However the PCA always has widespraed appeal and there are players here from 63 countries all over the world.

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
2016 (EPT12): 928 players, $4,500,800 prize pool, $833,260 for the winner

MEDIA INFO
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. 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.

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

PCA WEBCASTS
EPTLive is broadcasting live today with coverage of the PCA Invitational Charity tourney from 2pm (EST). Tomorrow 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.

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst entered the PCA 2016 Main Event on Day 2. Photo: Neil Stoddart