The two feature tables saw some action to end the day.  The secondary feature table was the last of the tables to finish up and Christian “charder” Harder was able to eliminate Andy Black in a huge, and interesting, hand just before the last hand of the night.  The clock was paused and each table [...]

A quick start in a poker tournament is always nice, but often it doesn’t mean much.  Day 1 chip leaders rarely go on to win a tournament, or even make the final table.  So if a day ending chip lead means relatively little a lead during the first level of a tournament is worth even [...]

Table 16 in the Blue Section of the Amazon Room is having some fun during Event #15 $5K NLHE. The cast of characters at the table includes Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, Yevgeniy “atimos” Timoshenko (pictured left), Amanda “Mandy_B” Baker, Andy Black and Lars Bonding. When we neared the table, it was apparent they were playing the [...]

Despite rebuilding his short stack to a more respectable level at 28k, Ryan “Daut44″ Daut (pictured right) lost it all back in big confrontation with Clonie Gowen in the 10k PLO WSOP Event #50.
Gowen raised to 4.5k and Daut reraised to 15k and Gowen called. Gowen checked to Daut on a 873flop, and Daut went [...]

With a below average stack in the middle stages of the 5k NL WSOP Event #21, Liz Lieu (pictured right) caught the break she needed at just the right time.
On a flop of 647, Gavin Smith led for 700 and Andy Black raised to 2k. Lieu 4-bet all-in for 8200. Smith folded (which he later said was [...]