Day 2A of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event is complete as approximately 630 of the original 1,476 players have survived the day. Among the chip leaders at the end of the day were Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp, Nick “gbmantis” Niergarth, Karec “K-Rock2525″ Terrell and Carter “cswidler” Swidler.
Many, however, hit the rail before the [...]

We missed the specifics of the hand, but Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant was one of the first players sent home from Day 2 of the $2K NLHE event. Those at his table told us that a player in middle position raised with blinds at 600/1200 and Johnny Necker put in a re-raise. Vinsant then 4-bet all-in [...]

Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh’s self-proclaimed “donkslide” began when he reraised a player with A-6 and was priced in to call when the player moved all-in with A-K.  A few hands later, the two players tangled again, getting it all-in preflop with Cody holding pocket jacks to the other player’s pocket queens.  The queens held and Cody [...]

There is a vaccuum sucking up chips in the middle of the $1.5K NLHE event and it is the table featuring Bertrand “ElKy” Grospellier, Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant, Darren Elias, Dylan “ImaLucSac” Linde (pictured left) , and later, Luke “bdbeatslayer” Vrabel.  The table has since broken, but we watched the following carnage before those seated at [...]

So we had incorrectly reported Devin “tranquilchaos” Porter (pictured right) had been eliminated on Day One.  We regret to inform you that he has in fact been eliminated this time.  It’s affirmative.  We poked him.  He was dead.  Porter had been nursing a short stack most of the afternoon or, as he and Full Tilt [...]