In a three way raised pot between Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson, David Benyamine, and an unknown on a 989 flop, Johnson raised Benyamine’s flop bet and Benyamine went all-in and Johnson revealed 98 for full house besting Benyamine’s TT until a T turned and a meaningless 4 hit the river. Benyamine doubled up to about 80k in [...]

Although the 10k pot limit hold-em event was saturated with high-limit pros, 1988 Cy Young Award winner Orel Hershiser joined the fray in his first WSOP event.
Not exactly the easiest draw for one’s first crack at WSOP fame, but neverless Hershiser doesn’t feel like “dead money”, a term he described himself as last summer.
After moving to [...]

With the blinds at 400/800, Chris “Genius28″ Lee and the player in the cutoff raised back and forth pre-flop until Chris put the other player all in. Chris showed AQ while the other player had KK. The flop came 36K giving the other player top set, and the K on the turn sealed the deal giving him [...]

JC “PrtyPSux” Alvarado got all of his chips in with 99 against an opponent’s pocket queens. Alvarado stood up, preparing to head to the rail, until he saw the flop of K97. His set of nines held and JC Alvarado doubled to around 27K.
Shaun Deeb and Amit “Amak316″ Makhija tangled in level 4. With the [...]

On a board showing 8 7 2 A Ben Grundy checked, Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul bet 6500 and Grundy made the call.  The river brought the 7 and Grundy checked again.  Saul bet 11, 700 and Grundy called, showing pocket deuces for a full house.  Kevin Saul tabled pocket threes and dropped to around 25k in chips. 
Shawn Keller [...]