And just like that, we are one day removed from the end of preliminary events here at the 2009 WSOP. While this final event isn’t over just yet, the vibe at the Rio is one of anticipation for the Main Event just around the corner. Still, there were 25 or so players with [...]

Maria “Maridu” Mayrick and Steven “stevie444″ Chidwick joined Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet’s rail late this evening and Mayrinck informed us that Van Fleet was destined to win the $3K Triple-Chance NLHE Event. Unfortunately it was not meant to be as Van Fleet was eliminated in 22nd place by fellow P5er Jason “TheMasterJ33″ DeWitt (pictured left).
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Online stars went to battle and two P5ers emerged as chip leaders in the $3K Triple Chance NLHE event. Jason “JCarver” Somerville is the man everyone is chasing as he increased his stack to 451K during the past level while Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet is second in chips with 373K.
Somerville first won a big pot [...]

Jonathan “apestyles” Van Fleet (pictured at left) was all in on the flop against Kevin “ImALucSac” MacPhee we walked up to their table in the $3K NLHE Triple Chance event. MacPhee had apparently led out for 6.6K on the J83 flop because the chips were still out in front of his stack. It didn’t look [...]

Play has concluded for the evening in Event #52 here at the Rio and Blake “Balla-B13″ Cahail is the leader in the clubhouse with 120.8K. Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron is biting his heels with 114K.
Cahail, pictured left, stormed over 100K when he eliminated two players in the same hand holding aces. Ylon Schwartz opened from [...]