After falling to become one of the short stacks, Hunter “The_Hunt_D” Frey (right) was eliminated in a blind vs. blind situation.  The two players were all in preflop and Hunter was a favorite to double up with his QJ against the 97 of Brett Richey.  A flop of K-9-x gave Richey the lead and the [...]

After taking a beat at the hand of Matusow and dropping to below 200k, Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania (left) was able to battle back and pick up enough pots to climb to 300k before running kings into aces.  Matusow was involved in this hand as well, but didn’t have the aces or kings, he had the [...]

Play stalled out in the around 34 playesr with nobody being eliminated for a while and then a few single eliminations coming sporadically and spaced well apart.  Then, near the end of the 8k / 16k with a 2k ante level there was a burst of action as the level wound to a close dropping [...]

At the end of the second level of play for the day there are 34 players remaining and Hunter “The_Hunt”D” Frey (left) has taken over the chip lead with over 1.8 million chips.  He is still seated with Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier on his left, and Luke is in solid shape as well with 1.1 million [...]

Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier played a couple of big pots right before the field was reduced to 5 tables of 9 players each.  In the first pot Luke opened for 27k and a player called.  The big blind then moved all in for 170k more and Luke put out the 170k to call.  The other player [...]