John Dibella, a 43-year-old stock trader from New York who came to the PCA to play some of the smaller events won a $1,000 satellite into the $10,000 main event and parlayed his good fortune into a $1,775,000 payday. Dibella, who hails from Westchester, NY, outlasted a field of 1,072 to take the title, saying, “I make more money at poker than as a day trader but I’m not going to call myself a professional just yet. I’m a recreational player, but maybe I’ll take it a bit more seriously from now on. It’s definitely much safer than my day job!”

 This year’s PCA has featured more than 40 events and attracted thousands of poker players from all over the world, including Viktor “Isildur1” Blom won his first major live title when he took down the $100,000 Super High Roller at the start of the festival for $1,254,400.

 Outside of the main event, the star of the show is former WSOP main event winner Jonathan Duhamel, winning nearly $600,000 with a fourth-, fifth-, and first-place finish thus far.

ATLANTIS RESORT AND CASINO
POKERSTARS
CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE
1/7-14/12
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
MAIN EVENT
BUY-IN $10,000
PLAYERS 1,072
PRIZE POOL $10,398,400

1. John Dibella . . . . .$1,775,000
^USA
2. Kyle Julius . . . . . .$1,500,000
^USA
3. Faraz Jaka . . . . . . . $755,000
^USA
4. Xuan Liu . . . . . . . . $600,000
^Canada
5. Mark Drover . . . . . $468,000
^Canada
6. Tony Gregg . . . . . . . $364,000
^USA
7. David Bernstein . . . $260,000
^Canada
8. Ruben Visser . . . . . $156,400
^Netherlands