Despite horrendous weather across the States which has hampered hundreds of players' efforts to reach the Bahamas, this year's PCA has not only beaten last year's field, but has topped the 1,000 mark and hit the $10 million guarantee.

With 710 players for Day 1b today and 295 yesterday, the current field is 1,005 but players have until start of play tomorrow to buy in. 448 players got through Day 1b today which, combined with the 184 Day 1a survivors, means at least 632 players will be in seats for Day 2. The current chip leader is American WSOP bracelet winner Shankar Pillai who finished Day 1b with 173,900, ahead of yesterday's chip leader, PokerStars qualifier Dylan Hortin. Among the other survivors today were Team PokerStars Pros Marcel Luske, Dario Minieri, Vanessa Selbst, Angel Guillen, Andre Akkari, Alex Kravchenko, Chris Moneymaker, Leo Margets, Jonathan Duhamel, Joe Cada, Marcin Horecki, Daniel Negreanu, Christophe De Meulder, Jason Mercier, Christian de Leon plus Team Online's Marc-Andre Ladouceur.

David Carrion, PCA & Latam Director of Live Operations, said: "Because of the weather, we were a litte bit concerned about the numbers - not so much because of the guarantee, but because we want to give players a fantastic event. So we are thrilled we have topped 1,000 players and I know there are still players arriving after three days of trying to get here."

OTHER PCA PROMOTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

As well as the scheduled poker tournaments, several other promotions are taking place during this year's PCA:

FINAL DAY OF TEAM ONLINE "HU4ROLLZ" CONTEST

The final two sessions of the Team Online heads-up HU4ROLLZ contest are taking place in the Player’s Lounge Thursday from 12:15 –14:15 and 20:15–22:15 with Tyler "frosty012" Frost, Dale "Daleroxxu" Philip, Grzegorz "‘DaWarsaw’ Mikielewicz and Felix ‘xflixx’ Schneiders.

Tomorrow's prize pool is being doubled to $10k in the VIP Club-hosted competition. Anyone over 18 can take part. Entrants can play each Team Online member only once and keep going until they lose a match. The prizes are as follows: 1st - $2500, 2nd - $1500, 3rd - $1000.The PCA player’s lounge has a cash bar, free wi-fi, Playstation and TVs so come along to take part, watch the action, or just hang out.

TEAM PRO Q&A SESSIONS - BREAKFAST WITH THE PROS

Thursday's Team Pro Q&A session - running 11am to noon - will feature Nordic Team Pros Johnny Lodden, Theo Jorgensen and Ville Wahlbeck talking about Prop Bets and on Friday Daniel Negreanu and Andre Akkari will talk about The Business of Poker from the Players’ Perspective: “Playing for a living in the future world of poker”. If you have questions to ask the pros, please tweet www.twitter.com/PokerStars_PCA.

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

Coverage of the $10k PCA 2014 Main Event starts at 14.30pm today for Day 1b. The broadcast is 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