Bryan Micon (pictured at left) was involved in a very strange hand over on Table 82 in the Orange Section of the Amazon Room. The board read J323 when we arrived. The small blind checked, the big blind bet 200 and three players called including Micon. The river was the 6 and both blinds [...]

Poker, like many aspects of life, takes a combination of skill, timing, and luck.  Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar put the three together a little over a week ago to win the World Poker Tour event at the Borgata and take the top prize of $1.4 million.  Today’s World Series of Poker Europe Main Event field is [...]

The current chipleader in the $5K short-handed No Limit Hold Em Event is Steven “CornellFiji” Ware (pictured at left).  In addition to being an online cash game player, Ware was also one of the people who uncovered the “nionio” scandal at Ultimate Bet.  He is currently, in his words, “getting crushed by the deck” and [...]

Now that the rebuy period in the $1.5K has ended, some of the loose, erratic plays we have spotted around the room is likely coming to an end.  Some players, like Alex “AJKHoosier1″ Kamberis and Matt “mattg1983″ Graham, decided to cut their losses and call it a day before the rebuy period was even over. 
Several [...]

In a hand that created a lot of buzz from players standing around the Amazon room, Barry Greenstein doubled up in a huge pot against Men “The Master” Nguyen with Queen high!  About twenty minutes before the dinner break Barry Greenstein opened to 1200 on the button in the 200-400-50 level.  Nguyen reraised to to 3200 and [...]