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 [...]

While the $2k may be the largest event in the Amazon Room today, there are several others running at the same time.  Both the $2K Limit Hold Em and the $1.5K PLO are playing out their final tables today and should have bracelet winners determined within a few hours.  In the $2K LHE event, Daniel Negreanu [...]

While the $2k Limit Hold’Em tournament still has two tables playing and Jeffrey Lisandro and Mike Matusow are still playing heads up in the $5,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw w/ Rebuys, play has ceased in both the $5k NLHE tournament and the $3k HORSE tournament and the Amazon room is now mostly quiet. Numerous P5ers are [...]

The level of energy jolting through the Amazon room was palpable as players frantically pushed their chips to amass a large stack before the close of the rebuy in the WSOP Event #5.
For many poker players, a rebuy tournament is as welcomed of an event as Christmas is to kids.
No table exemplified that mentality more than [...]

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 [...]