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 [...]

Play concluded for Day 1A of the Main Event just after 1AM PST. Nearly half of the day’s entrants were eliminated in the 10K championship; 657 of 1,297 remain for Day 2 play. Day 1b will commence tomorrow at 12pm PST at the Rio, but before we get ahead of ourselves, here is [...]

Nick “fu_15″ Maimone’s (pictured right) tough start to Day 1A of the WSOP Main Event got even worse when he was all-in with aces on a 10-9-3 flop against pocket queens and lost when the third queen peeled on the turn.
Adam “akat11″ Katz cringed when he discovered he was playing across from David Pham at his starting [...]