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Join PokerStars now! This time last year James Dempsey was celebrating his latest tournament win, a £200, 32 entry hold’em event, part of the January Sales tournaments at the Rendezvous casino in Brighton, England. Dempsey, who lives in Brighton, topped the lot to take home £2,560.

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EPT8 Deauville: Brighton to Deauville by way of Las Vegas

Join PokerStars now! “My God!” someone exclaims. “I’ve never seen anyone’s fingers work so fast.” Neil Stoddart and his assistant Kim Curtin have taken over the stage of the 2012 PCA main event.

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PCA 2012: Getting the picture

Join PokerStars now! Just a month ago, PokerStars player David Bernstein was dreaming of making the big time.

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PCA 2012: Bernstein’s $260,000 poker vacation

Join PokerStars now! He makes a point of saying that golf his is life, but poker is his entertainment. For much of this week, it seemed that pro golfer Sergio Garcia could make an awful lot of money from his hobby at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, but he will have to be content with $35,000 after busting with around 50 players remaining in the Main Event. That’s still not bad in anyone’s book, but for Garcia, a Spaniard who spent a decade at the top of his sport, the money is perhaps less relevant than it would be for most others

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PCA 2012: Sergio Garcia out of bounds

Join PokerStars now! Martin Jacobson sits at one of the outer tables, chin resting on a water bottle, arms lightly resting on the rail, hands covering his cards, a stack of blue 5,000 chips out in front. He looks relaxed

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PCA 2012: Martin Jacobson closing in on another final table

Join PokerStars now! There is no methadone for the kind of jones the staff members of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure suffer every year. Nothing can ease the twitching, sometimes painful itch, the one that rises up like a sharp-toothed nicotine fit or deep, maniacal hunger

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PCA 2012: Keeping up with the joneses

Join PokerStars now! Amid the television cameras, the roving camera crews, the sound men, the tournament reporters, Robbie Thompson calling the action, a couple of production staff and meters of cable on the main stage, there stands a lady in flip flops, wearing a pink and purple floral dress, her arms crossed and holding a digital camera. Normally if you get this close to the table without permission, or wearing anything but black, you’ll either be accidentally crushed under the wheels of a camera tripod or asked in no uncertain terms to leave the stage.

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PCA 2012: The view from the rail

Join PokerStars now! A message wings its way to PokerStars Blog HQ here at the PCA. “Get some coverage of Mark Drover already. Kid is killing it!” This was one of his friends from back home in Newfoundland, Canada

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PCA 2012: PokerStars qualifier Drover making mark

Join PokerStars now! I appreciate this is hard to believe, but an empty chair is currently runaway chip leader of the PCA Main Event.

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PCA 2012: Empty chair leads the Main Event

Join PokerStars now! PokerStars Women is only a bit over a year old, so in terms of 10th anniversary history, we are newcomers to this dance. At most, we were a vague idea in someone’s head ten years ago. But after over a year of hosting a stellar series of women’s tournaments around the world we are feeling our oats a bit and wanted to share a few of our own tales about the start of the site

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PokerStars 10th Anniversary: Back in the day with PokerStars Women