The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship are formally again.
PokerStars introduced the return of two of their hottest reside event choices in a press launch despatched out on Friday, Apr. 8. The PCA and PSPC can be held at a brand new venue, the Baha Mar resort in Nassau, Bahamas in January of 2023.
“We have missed our live events as much as our players, so it is our true pleasure to announce the PokerStars Players Championship will take place at Baha Mar in January,” said PokerStars Managing Director & Commercial Officer Severin Rasset in the release. “Beautiful location, hundreds of qualifiers, with millions to win. If there is one tournament to choose for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, it will be the PSPC. We will provide more details soon on how to get your hands on a Platinum Pass – stay tuned!”
The PCA was beforehand held on the Atlantis Casino and Resort within the Bahamas from 2005 by way of 2019. This yr it’ll make its debut on the close by Baha Mar, operating from Jan. 22 – Feb. 3. Chino Rheem gained the latest PCA primary occasion, topping a discipline of 865 entries to win greater than $1.5 million. Other notable champions of the PCA embody Gus Hansen (2004 – $455,780), Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier (2008 – $2,000,000), Poorya Nazari (2009 0 $3,000,000), Galen Hall (2011 – $2,300,000), Dimitar Danchev (2013 – $1,859,000), Michael Watson (2016 – $728,325), Christian tougher (2017 – $429,664), and Maria Lampropulous (2018 – $1,081,100).
The lone operating of the PSPC was held alongside the latest PCA. The $25,000 buy-in event set the document as the biggest event ever at that worth level, with an enormous discipline of 1,039 entries. A complete of $9 million was contributed to the prize pool which ultimately grew to greater than $26.4 million, most of which got here within the type of free $25,000 seats into the occasion that have been awarded to gamers by PokerStars within the lead-up to the occasion. One of these ‘Platinum Pass’ winners was Spain’s Ramon Collilas, who turned his free seat right into a $5,100,000 payday.
The second operating of the occasion was scheduled to happen on the European Poker Tour Barcelona cease in 2020, however each that yr’s PSPC and the entire tour cease have been finally postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. Now, a bit of greater than 4 years after the preliminary PSPC was held, the second coming of the occasion is about to happen from Jan. 30 – Feb. 3.
PokerStars’ launch additionally included information about upcoming EPT Barcelona and EPT Prague stops. The former will happen on the Casino Barcelona later this yr from Aug. 8–21, whereas the latter will return King’s Casino Prague from Dec. 7-18.
PokerStars regional excursions additionally had updates to their coming plans. UK and Ireland Poker Tour Dublin is now anticipated to run May 16-22 on the Bonnington Hotel. PokerStars can also be sponsoring a Summer Poker Festival in Malta from June 18-26 which is able to function a joint UKIPT and Estrella Poker Tour primary occasion.
