Players have gone on a 90-minute dinner break and will resume play at 8:16 p.m. Some P5ers, however, won’t be returning. Ben “fineman” Fineman and Annie Duke were eliminated in Level 3. Duke was short stacked for the entire level before getting her remaining chips in with A-K against pocket nines and couldn’t improve.
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“All in and a call on 239!”
We heard this and darted to the table to see Jason “JAKoon1985″ Koon (pictured at left) stick his last 11K in the middle. The board read 33QA and Koon’s opponent revealed 33. Jason tabled AQ and was drawing dead. He was collecting his things when the 5 rivered, and [...]

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 [...]

After sitting near the top of the chip counts for most of the tournament up to this point, Jason “JP_OSU” Potter has fallen to below 100k, though he was recently able to pick up a pot against Chris Ferguson to gain a little ground. Adam “Roothlus” Levy, Matt “All In At 420″ Stout, and [...]

The early double up was what Ben “bfineman” Fineman needed. Instead he got the early exit. He was all in with pocket sixes against Zachary “CrazyZachary” Clark’s pocket jacks. The jacks stood tall on the T-9-4-5-K board to eliminate Fineman and push Clark over the 500k chip mark.
Fineman’s 27th place finish made [...]