The 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event kicked off on January 23 at the picturesque Baha Mar Resort in The Bahamas, with the first of two starting flights attracting 166 players. Only 80 of those who sat down with high hopes of becoming the 2023 PCA Main Event champion had chips in front of them after the completion of the eighth 60-minute levels, and nobody had more precious betting tokens than Portugal's Andre Marques.
Marques turned his 30,000 starting stack into a tournament-leading 197,500 on Day 1A.