There are just a few tables throughout the Amazon and Brasilia rooms where Round One tables of the $1.5K NLHE Shootout event are taking place. We watched as several P5ers either flourished or floundered in their heads-up match.  Here are some of the big hands from the past hour of play:
Play had been relatively mild [...]

Both Tom “titantom32″ Braband (pictured left) and Nick “Grip” Grippo suffered early blows in the restart of Event #15 $5K NLHE, and were eliminated soon after.
Braband’s blow was dealt by Danny “dannyills” Illingworth, who got off to a rough start himself. Illingworth double barreled into Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron with just ace high, and Baron called [...]

Table 41 in the Fontana Lounge has a very interesting cast of players. Ivan Demidov and Dennis Phillips were both members of the November 9, the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event. They are both at the table which is worthy of notice in itself. Roy Winston was [...]

After battling with the short stack Adam “Akatz11″ Katz was all in on what turned out to be a rollercoaster of a hand. Adam “Roothlus” Levy had opened for 1,800 and Katz moved all in for somewhere around 10k give or take a few thousand. The action quickly folded back to Levy who [...]

Don “dbase22″ Yucius (left), Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker and Adam “Akatz11″ Katz are all short stacked and hanging on. With the blinds at 300 / 600 and a 75 chip ante all three players have been hovering around 10k giving them only 15 big blinds to work with and faced with much larger stacks all [...]