With 301 players starting the day the action had to be split between the Fontana Lounge and the main poker room at the Bellagio.  As the first couple of levels drop players from the field the tables in the poker room are being broken and players are moving into the Fontana Lounge.  In the first [...]

The 4th level of the day has seen the action crank up.  With the blinds at 200 / 400 and a 50 chip ante the pace has ramped up and chips have started to move around the tables in larger chunks.  Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul (right) saw the last of his chips move to Ryhnie Campbell [...]

After battling through sickness to get through Day 1 of the Main Event, Garrett “GBecks” Beckman (pictured left) is feeling way better on Day 2b
Beckman’s change of mood isn’t necessarily because the remnants of what he suspected was food poisoning is gone, although that definitely helps, but that his stack has gone from 54k to start the day to [...]

As the blinds continued to rise, Garrett “GBecks” Beckman’s stack began slowly decreasing. The final tables of the $1.5k NLHE event #39 have been filled with aggressive play and it seemed that Beckman (pictured left) just couldn’t get things going in the right direction.
With the blinds at 8k/16k (2k ante) Beckman open shoved all in for [...]

As the seconds on the tournment clocked ticked down the last few seconds of level 16 in the $1.5k NLHE tournament, chip leader Garrett ”GBecks” Beckman got involved in a rather interesting hand.
The cards were dealt out and as the other players folded they left the table to go on break but Beckman (pictured right) in the cutoff [...]