Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin’s phenomenal World Series of Poker has come to an end here on Day 1D of the Main Event. Baldwin (pictured right) was short stacked midway through Level 3 and moved all in for his remaining chips with pocket jacks and was called by a player’s A-K. The flop and turn were kind [...]

Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier (pictured left) appeared to have a rough Level Eight. When we last saw him he had moved all-in for his last 4,550 chips at the 300/600 ante 75 level. Another player at the table called with AK which had Mercier’s K7 in a pinch. The 984JJ board failed to [...]

Jonathan “apestyles” Van Fleet (pictured at left) was all in on the flop against Kevin “ImALucSac” MacPhee we walked up to their table in the $3K NLHE Triple Chance event. MacPhee had apparently led out for 6.6K on the J83 flop because the chips were still out in front of his stack. It didn’t look [...]

The final $1.5K No-Limit Hold’em event of the 2009 World Series of Poker begins today. We’re expecting another sellout field here at the Rio and therefore a whole lot of PocketFivers hitting the felt.
Matt “mattster24″ Sterling (pictured at left), fresh off his final table finish in the $1.5K limit hold’em tournament, is expected to [...]

Play has concluded for the evening in Event #52 here at the Rio and Blake “Balla-B13″ Cahail is the leader in the clubhouse with 120.8K. Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron is biting his heels with 114K.
Cahail, pictured left, stormed over 100K when he eliminated two players in the same hand holding aces. Ylon Schwartz opened from [...]