The inaugural PokerStars Championship Bahamas started with a bang and ended in a similar fashion. Just as its predecessor – the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure – the festival drew attention from all parts of the globe. Some of the world’s most prominent poker players entered the events featured on the schedule to clash once more against fellow pros. Poker rookies also took the opportunity to meet and fight against some of the biggest and to learn a little something from here and there that could help them improve their game.
The 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas featured more than 90 tournaments and a number of cash games. As it usually happens at festivals of this scale, the higher buy-in events and the Main Event, of course, were the most highly anticipated ones. The fact that tournaments of this kind are considered the most attractive ones should not surprise anyone with even the slightest involvement in poker, given the amounts participants place at stake and the amounts they have the chance to win.
Several players won very big over the course of the festival and we consider it our duty to present their accomplishments to the poker world. Here are some of the biggest winners at the first-ever PokerStars Championship, an event that marked the beginning of a new era, hopefully a happy one, for live poker. It is important to note that the list is not comprehensive and that it is mainly focused on the players to have won the most in the several high roller tournaments featured on the schedule.
Jason Koon
Koon won the opening $100,000 Super High Roller event for a first-place prize of $1,650,300. Thus, he entered the PokerStars live tournament history as the winner of the first event in the new Championship era. The player also scored his best-ever live cash and increasing his poker bankroll to more than $8.1 million.
Koon had previously cashed in the 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016 editions of the PCA festival but his best accomplishment had been a fourth-place finish in a $25,500 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max High Roller for $271,950.
Bryn Kenney
It looked as if Kenney was on fire during the PokerStars Championship Bahamas. The player cashed the total amount of $1,769,851 from six different events. Here it is also important to note that four of the events were high rollers. Most importantly, the US poker pro won two of them – the $50,000 High Roller for $969,075 and the $25,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shot Clock for $392,876.
Last year, Kenney won the $100,000 Super High Roller on the PCA schedule for a first-place prize of $1,687,800.
Charlie Carrel
The young Englishman finished 2nd in the $100,000 Super High Roller for $1,191,900. He then took 3rd place in the $10,200 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo 6-Max for $68,920, thus increasing his overall PokerStars Championship Bahamas earnings to more than $1.25 million.
Daniel Colman
Colman, a player we best know for taking down the $1,000,000 The Big One for ONE DROP in 2014, was also among the biggest PokerStars Championship Bahamas winners this year. He made two final tables in two high roller events – the $100,000 and the $50,000 ones – and finished 59th in the $5,000 Main Event to earn a total of $1,112,460.
Lucas Greenwood
Greenwood bested the field of the $25,750 PokerStars Championship High Roller for $779,268. He also cashed in two other events to increase the total amount he earned during the festival to almost $800,000.
Mustapha Kanit
Italy’s most profitable poker player of all-time was also an active participant in PokerStars Championship Bahamas events. He finished runner-up to Kenney in the $50,000 High Roller for $695,740 and cashed in four more events to bring his Championship winnings to a little more than $800,000.
