PCA 2014 Main Event Kicks Off

Tue, Jan 7th 2014, 04:32 PM

There are at least 275 players in seats for the $10k PCA 2014 Main Event which started today at noon.

Today's Day 1a players include Team PokerStars Pros Liv Boeree, Lex Veldhuis, Johnny Lodden, George Danzer, Jake Cody and Eugene Katchalov. Also playing today are Team Online's Mickey Petersen, Friend of PokerStars and Seinfeld star Jason Alexander and three-time NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas.

Overall the field includes 427 players who won their seats online.

A total of 39 tourneys are taking place during the 2014 PCA festival. Last year's Main Event field attracted 987 players, and awarded more than $28 million across all events.

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

The popular Team Pro Q&A sessions kicked off today with ElkY and Eugene talking about Health & Poker. Tomorrow's session, from 11am to noon in the Player Lounge, will be Vanessa Selbst, Ike Haxton and David Williams talking about "
Game Play - Swapping Pieces and Bankroll Management".

If you have questions to ask the pros, please tweet www.twitter.com/PokerStars_PCA.

"HU4ROLLZ" CONTEST

The HU4ROLLZ heads-up contest against Team Online members started today in the Player’s Lounge. The sessions are running daily until January 9. $20,000 is up for grabs for players who accumulate the most points competing stars such as Isaac “Ike” Haxton, Randy “nanonoko” Lew, Marc-André “frenchdawg” Ladouceur, and Mickey “mement_mori” Petersen. Anyone over 18 can take part in the sessions which run from 12:15 –14:15 and 20:15–22:15 each day. Entrants can only play each Team Online member once and keep going until they lose a match. The prizes are as follows: 1st - $2500, 2nd - $1500, 3rd - $1000.

SHARK CAGE

The first two heats of the new televised contest Shark Cage are on Wednesday. Qualifiers Gareth "kingcoles80" Coles from Wales and Dana "dahmsy" Dahms from Canada have each won a trip to the PCA to compete. 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 will be "as live" subject to a one hour security delay; starts at 15.15 (EST) Coverage of the $10k PCA 2014 Main Event starts at 14.00pm tomorrow for 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

Three time NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas is playing PCA 2014

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