Earlier Alexandre “Allingomes” Gomes took the chip lead with around 100k. Gomes is coming off his recent win at the Bellagio Cup WPT event and his confidence has to be high, but his 100k chip lead has been more than doubled by another player that has had recent success. Steven Begleiter is the [...]

The final numbers at the Bike tallied up to only 279 entrants, almost 100 players short of a year ago and well shy of the field sizes from a few years back.  Last year John Phan defeated a field of 373 players, but this year he and all the other defending Legends of Poker champions [...]

Shortly after returning from the first break of the day, players were instructed to begin Hand-for-Hand play with 653 players remaining (five away from the money bubble). One player who didn’t survive long enough to make it to bubble play was John “danglesauce” Sweeney. Sweeney lost a chunk of his stack in a [...]

We didn’t catch up with this hand until the turn but the winning player filled us in on the details.
Brandon “bgitty” Garrity (pictured left) and two other players saw a flop of K95 in a raised pot. All three players checked to the flop and the turn was the 2. One player in the [...]

Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul, who showed up with a new mohawk today, has seen his starting 88K stack dwindle since the get-go. It recently slipped to 20K after a preflop confrontation against the player in Seat 9 at his table. With the blinds at 300/600 Saul raised to 1.6K from early positon, the player in the [...]