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Looking Back at the Biggest PokerStars Winners in the Bahamas

The inaugural PokerStars Championship Bahamas takes place Jan. 6-14 on Atlantis Paradise Island. While the PokerStars Championship Bahamas is new, its predecessor, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure or simply the PCA, has been around for some time.

PCA Main Event Winners

YearEntrantsPrize PoolChampionPrize
2004221$1,657,500Gus Hansen$455,780
2005461$3,487,200John Gale$890,600
2006724$5,647,200Steve Paul-Ambrose$1,388,600
2007937$7,063,842Ryan Daut$1,535,255
20081,136$8,562,976Bertrand Grospellier$2,000,000
20091,347$12,674,000Poorya Nazari$3,000,000
20101,529$14,831,300Harrison Gimbel$2,200,000
20111,560$15,132,000Galen Hall$2,300,000
20121,072$10,398,400John Dibella$1,775,000
2013987$9,573,900Dimitar Danchev$1,859,000
20141,031$10,070,000Dominik Panka$1,423,096
2015816$7,915,200Kevin Schulz$1,491,580
2016928$4,500,800Mike Watson$728,325*

Back in 2004, the PCA was a World Poker Tour event which took place aboard the Royal Caribbean Voyager of the Seas cruise ship.