And just like that, we are one day removed from the end of preliminary events here at the 2009 WSOP. While this final event isn’t over just yet, the vibe at the Rio is one of anticipation for the Main Event just around the corner. Still, there were 25 or so players with [...]

They are down to the final 27 players in the $5K NLHE 6-Max Event and some of the most recent casualities were P5ers. Andy “BKiCe” Seth was able to double up his five big blind stack through Shaun Deeb earlier this level, but history did not repeat itself when Andy moved all-in and Deeb [...]

In the last $2K NLHE event before the one that started up on Thursday, Eric “whitE_mAmbA” Ladny made it all the way to the final table thanks in part to catching runner-runner flush in a 500K pot with T9 after flopping the second-best straight in the hand on day two of the event.
He was eliminated [...]

On our way over to the Miranda Room to grab chips counts from the $1.5K Six-handed event we caught up with Shawn “sbuck21″ Buchanan and Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg mixing it up.  With blinds at 100/200, Buchanan raised to 500 from middle position and Friedberg raised to 1400 out of the blinds. Buchanan called and the [...]

To get to the $1 million first prize mark the field needs to be at least 400 players strong.  The relatively small venue at Bay 101 isn’t set up to have a massive day 1 so the field is split into two days, but even with the small area the 135 players starting day 1A [...]