EPT Prague champion Martin Finger, who won the EPT London Super High Roller in October for £821,000, is chip leader going in to Day 2 of the PCA 2014 $100k Super High Roller. He has 829,000 in chips.
There were 45 players today with seven re-entries - from Guy Laliberte (twice), Daniel Negreanu, Igor Kurganov, Antonio Esfandiari, Paul Newey and Tobias Reinkemeier. There are currently 37 players still in but all players have until start of play tomorrow to buy in, or re-enter. Daniel Negreanu is definitely re-entering. World champion Ryan Riess, Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and John Juanda were among the players who bust today and haven't yet re-entered.
The field is dominated by Americans - there were 25 US players today accounting for more than half the field.
Every day of the event is being broadcast live on PokerStars.tv.
PCA 2014
A total of 39 tourneys are taking place during the 2014 PCA festival. The $10k Main Event starts on Tuesday (Jan 7). Last year's field attracted 987 players and awarded more than $28 million across all events. More than 550 players are already registered for this year's Main Event including some 424 players who won their seats online.
As well as their cash prizes, the winners of the $10k Main Event, the $25k High Roller and $100k Super High Roller will also receive luxury watches from Swiss watch brand SLYDE, the official watch sponsor for the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
OTHER PCA PROMOTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
As well as the scheduled poker tournaments, several other promotions taking place during this year's PCA:
TEAM PRO Q&A SESSIONS - BREAKFAST WITH THE PROS
Team Pro Q&A sessions will be on from 11am to noon in the Player Lounge every day from January 7-10. If you have questions to ask the pros, please tweet @PokerStars_PCA. The first session features Elky and Eugene talking about Health & Poker.
"HU4ROLLZ" CONTEST
Players can test their skills against Team Online members in heads-up matches in the Player’s Lounge, running daily from January 7-9. $20,000 is up for grabs for players who accumulate the most points competing against Team Online stars such as Isaac “Ike” Haxton, Randy “nanonoko” Lew, Marc-André “frenchdawg” Ladouceur, and Mickey “mement_mori” Petersen.
SHARK CAGE
The first two heats of the new televised contest Shark Cage are on Wednesday at the PCA. Qualifiers Gareth "kingcoles80" Coles from Wales and Dana "dahmsy" Dahms from Canada have each won a trip to the PCA to compete. The heats are taking place on Wednesday on the main TV set in the PCA tourney area. Each heat features one qualifier and five invited pros. Online qualifier tournaments took place in November with the top 50 finishers in each qualifier invited to upload an auction video to YouTube. You are welcome to cover/report on these Shark Cage heats but please don't reveal the results.
POKERSTARS BLOG / SOCIAL MEDIA
For reports & updates, see: PokerStars blog | @PokerStars_PCA | PCA facebook page. For the live stream, use @EPTLive twitter account, hashtag #EPTLive.
MEDIA GUIDELINES
You must credit PokerStars in the first instance of your event coverage by writing PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in full, not just PCA. The EPT guidelines provides further general information.
PCA PARTY
The party is 8.30-10.30pm, Sunday, January 12 on the Royal Deck, Atlantis.
PCA WEBCASTS
PCALive has daily coverage of the PCA $100k Super High Roller on PokerStars.tv. The cards-up final on January 7 will be "as live" subject to a one hour security delay; starts at 14.00 (EST)
Coverage of the $10k PCA 2014 Main Event starts at 14.00pm on Day 1b (Wednesday, Jan 8), running daily until the cards-up final on January 13, starting at 14.00 (EST) (1 hr security delay). More info on PokerStars.tv/live
EPT Prague champion Martin Finger, who won the EPT London Super High Roller in October for £821,000, is chip leader going in to Day 2 of the PCA 2014 $100k Super High Roller
