As we were admiring the architectural marvel that was Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier’s enormous chip stack in the $1.5K PLO event, we happened to catch the biggest pot of the tournament so far. With the blinds at 1.2K/2.4K Mercier put in a pot sized raise from early position and Steve “PiKappRaider” Burkholder (pictured at left) called [...]

Level 3 (100/200 blinds ante 25) is underway and a number of players are having some trouble getting anything going.  One such player is Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti (pictured left).  Benvenuti raised preflop with pocket sevens and got one caller.  He thought he hit a dream flop when the board came K-7-2 rainbow.  He bet the [...]

Now that Level One and late registration have come to a close, the numbers are in and this event has a solid 283 runners, which means they will play four more levels today.
There are several notable PocketFivers spread throughout the tournament area and some tables have more than their fair share of internet pros.  Preliminary event [...]

Carter “ckingusc” King (pictured left) has been hanging on by a thread all day; in fact, the patience he’s continually exhibited has been admirable. However, this patience was wearing thin as his stack was shrinking - when PocketFives caught up to Carter halfway through the last level of the evening, he had less than 15K [...]