With 30k starting stacks and blind levels of 50/100, along with a small starting field for the day the action was slow for the first 90 minutes of play.  Somewhere around 160 players started the day, and it looks like their was only 1 elimination during the first level.

Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg put a decent amount [...]

For the third time in this tournament Ryan “Gotskillz” Fisler has had pocket kings against pocket aces. All three times all (or almost all) the chips went in preflop and each time Fisler has hit a king on the flop. Most recently Fisler was able to eliminate Matt “All In at 420″ Stout [...]

“I can’t fold,” was what Russell “rdcrsn” Carson had to say when the action got back around to him, and his statement summed up the situation. After some preflop raising Carson had added 14,400 to what was out there, representing about half his stack and Tyler “brainwash” Cornell had moved all in having Carson [...]

Noah “fouruhaters” Schwartz was sitting pretty with over 90k early in the day, but in no limit hold em the action can be fast and in the blink of an eye a mountain of chips can melt into the green felt in front of you. Noah made an aggressive move in a multi-way pot [...]

With the first level of day 3 under way, it didn’t take long before all ins started flying and some players hopes of making it to the money and competing for a final table were crushed. While Amit “Amak316″ Makhija and Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein were able to gain ground in the first 30 minutes [...]