- With almost $7m in tournament winnings, Selbst becomes the clear all-time female money winner for live tournaments.
- In total, $28m was paid out across the 38 events, up 30% on 2012.
- Selbst’s win was the fifth million-dollar payout in this year’s series.
The 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure wrapped up its record-setting run with one of its own Team PokerStars pros, Vanessa Selbst, making history .in capturing the PCA’s series-ending $25,000 “High Roller” tourney—and in the process becoming poker’s all-time women’s leader in career poker tournament earnings.
Selbst’s triumph over 197 other entrants brought her $1,424,420 in winnings, and pushed her well past Kathy Liebert into the leading spot among women players, with $6,996,315. The win continues a huge start to 2013 for Selbst, who only days before announced her engagement to partner Miranda Forster.
Selbst’s series-ending headlines were far from the only big stories emerging from Nassau, however. All told, five players won over a million in individual events, including PCA Main Event champion Dimitar Danchev and $100,000 Super High Roller winner Scott Seiver.
Seiver’s win, worth $2,003,480, held up as the highest single payday of the 2013 PCA, while runner-up David “Doc” Sands collected $1,259,320. Six of the eight finalists in this one were Americans, including eventual sixth-place finisher Greg Jensen.
Jensen, an options trader who received his $100,000 buy-in for the event as a birthday present from another executive of his firm, ended up cashing for $286,000. Jensen donated the prize money to the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting tragedy.
