Or the Johnsons.  Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson (left) and Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire are seated at adjacent tables and are passing the chip lead back and forth as the two keep one upping each other as they climb up the chip counts.  Most recently Devo was able to eliminate a player when he flopped a set of [...]

Corey “comandr_cool” Burbick had worked his chip count up to 115K at one point today, but the highly-ranked P5er’s stack plummeted in the most recent level of the $1.5K NLHE Event #28. We found Burbick (pictured right) calling a preflop raise of 6K with blinds at 1K/2K ante 300. Action folded around to the big [...]

Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis was the latest to head out of the Amazon Room from the $40,000 No Limit Hold ‘em event and his exit was painful. With the blinds at 3K/6K, Phil Galfond opened to 16K in middle position and Billirakis (pictured at left) raised to 46K from the small blind. Galfond pondered a move for [...]

As the day continues on the players are starting to drop out.  The blinds recently went up to 800 / 1,600 with a 200 ante and the previous 600 / 1,200 level was also enough to put some pressure on players and resulted in some eliminations.  The field has dropped under 220 players with less [...]

After six full levels of play the players have just finished up the 150 / 300 level and completed the first day of play.  The action will resume tomorrow at noon with blinds of 200 / 400 with a 50 ante.  Late eliminations included Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein, at the hands of Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers, Adam [...]