When 22-year-old, Ryan Daut arrived on the shores of Paradise Island, he had no idea that he would return to New Jersey as a millionaire. On January 11th, Daut, a Ph. D. candidate in Mathematics at Penn State won $1.5 million at the Fourth Annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) that began January 4th at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas.

Daut battled 937 professional and amateur players, including four World Series of Poker champions for the lion’s share of a seven million dollar prize pool. The 2007 PCA was the largest single event in World Poker Tour® (WPT) history, growing by more than 22% over the 2006 field.