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Mike Watson Wins PCA 2016 Main Event For $728.325

15.01. | Watson, who hails from St. John's, the capital of Newfoundland in Canada, beat PCA 2009 runner-up Tony Gregg heads-up to seize the title and prestigious Main Event trophy. Gregg was thwarted yet again in his bid to become champion; it was his third appearance on the PCA final table and he is the only player in EPT history to have reached the final of the same event three times.

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Watson Leads Six Players to the PCA 2016 Final Showdown

14.01. | There was Steve Ambrose and then there was Poorya Nazari. And there might as well be Mike Watson today as he's leading six remaining players to the final day of the $5,300 PCA 2016 Main Event.

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Pires keeps lead for penultimate day of PCA Main Event

13.01. | For three days in a row, Leonardo Pires has bagged the biggest stack at the end of a PCA Main Event session. Leading for both Day 2 and Day 3, the 46-year-old Brazilian never lost the lead during today's five levels either.

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Pires Maintains Lead for Day 4 of PCA 2016 Main Event

12.01. | He's been playing poker recreationally for nearly 30 years but Brazilian Leonardo Pires is now enjoying the spotlight more than ever. The 46-year-old from Minas Gerais has maintained the chip lead in the $5,300 PCA 2016 Main Event two nights in a row and goes in to Day 4 with 2,095,000.

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Pires Leads for Day 3 of the PCA 2016 Main Event

11.01. | Leonardo Pires is leading the $5,300 PCA 2016 Main Event in to Day 3. The 46-year-old Brazilian bagged 524,000 to top all 195 survivors. Pires came to the PCA from Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, where he won his Main Event ticket in a local poker tour.

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Jaffe Takes Day 1B Lead in the PCA Main Event

10.01. | American pro Jonathan "Iftarii" Jaffe built the biggest stack on Day 1b of the $5,300 PCA 2016 Main Event, bagging 164,000. The 28-year-old from Massachussetts is more than $870k in profit online on PokerStars, where he won two WCOOP titles. After black Friday, he relocated to Montreal, Canada to continue grinding online, sharing home with one of the 2015 starlight Nick Petrangelo.

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Bryn Kenney Triumphs in the PCA $100K Super High Roller

09.01. | He was third at both 2011 and 2015 PCA $100k Super High Rollers, but this time Bryn Kenney went all the way for the title. He banked $1,687,800, the biggest payday of his career. It's the first seven-figure result for the 29-year-old American, who's now nearly up to $8.4 million in live tournament winnings.

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Kenney leads for PCA 2016 $100K SHR Final day

08.01. | Bryn Kenney knows how to succeed in the PCA $100k Super High Roller; he came third twice before, back in 2011 and 2015 for $643,000 and $873,880 respectively.

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Greg "Fossilman" Raymer looking for $100K to stake his entire 2016 schedule

07.01. | t's not unusual for poker players to offset some risk by piecing themselves out to fellow pros/investors. Not many of them, however, are looking for the kind of money 2004 WSOP Main Event Champ Greg "Fossilman" Raymer is asking as he is looking to offload the majority of the $100k or so he needs to fund his entire 2016 tournament ambitions.

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PCA 2016 gets under way with $100K Super High Roller

06.01. | The nine-day PCA 2016 festival takes place January 6-14 at Atlantis in the Bahamas. The festival has kicked off at noon on Wednesday, January 6, with the flagship $100,000 Super High Roller event.