The blinds had just been raised to 1K/2K in Event #30 $2.5K PLO when Daniel Studer raised to 6K from under the gun. Darryll “DFish” Fish (pictured right) was next to act, and went deep into the tank. Fish counted out twenty yellow 1K chips in stacks of five. He shuffled them into two stacks [...]

Andy “BadgerPro” Schultz was  just eliminated from the $2.5K Six-handed No Limit Hold ‘em event. After losing a key pot moments earlier, Schultz got his remining chips in with A8 against an opponent’s pocket tens. The AQJ flop provided a tease for Andy as the K fell on the turn, giving his opponent a straight and sending [...]

With a paltry 120k stack to start Day 5 of the Main Event, Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg (pictured right) lasted a few hours before bowing out.
Frieberg doubled in the first orbit of play and got to 350k in the second level. Without many hands and stack well below the 900k average, Friedberg busted when he reraised [...]

Players recently returned from the dinner break and cards were in the air shortly after 9:40pm PST at the Rio. Play will continue this evening until 180 remain or until we complete one more two-hour level.
Just before the crowd in the Amazon Room dispersed for their suppers, several noteworthy things occurred, not the least of [...]

Now back from dinner break and midway into Level 4, some players were feeling a bit squeezed by their short stacks and put to difficult decisions. PocketFives caught up with Dan “wretchy” Martin (pictured at right) in the Green section of the Amazon room sporting a stack of 2.8K, asking P5s to abstain from counting [...]