Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo (pictured left) made a roller coaster motion with his hands to describe the past hour, but the latter half of the journey has been entirely uphill. First Tamayo knocked out a shorter stack holding pocket tens to his opponent’s pocket sevens to build him up to 1.8 million. Just a little while [...]

In the span of just two hands Joe Sebok (pictured left) went from 260K to 750K. First, a player in early position raised to 26K with the blinds at 5K/10K ante 1K and a player in late position reraised to 86K total. Sebok then moved all-in from the big blind for an [...]

Day 5 is underway here at the Rio and a couple of P5ers have benefitted from early double-ups
When we arrived at Table 82 in the Orange Section, Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle had Jesse “thor” Haabak (pictured left) all in and both players tabled their cards. Haabak held KK which dominated Hinkle’s 99. The board ran [...]

We couldn’t see what Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle was up to during money bubble play from our spot on the rail, but apparently he’s been busy. His stack ballooned over the 1 million chip mark and we caught the following hand in which Hinkle busted a player to add even more chips to the pile. [...]

Owen “ocrowe” Crowe’s slide continued the past hour and he’s dropped from a high point of 1.3 million to 410K. The most recent hit came courteous of Julian “wh00sel” Parmann (pictured left). We missed the preflop and flop action, but caught up with this hand on the turn after there was already over [...]