Granted, he came in as the short stack with only 130K, but Justin “Boosted_J” Smith was one of the elite eight at the final table of the $10K Stud Hi/Lo Championship Event.  He busted out shortly after the official televised final table commenced and will receive $54,896 for his finish.
Smith was in some good company with Doyle [...]

While we were off compiling our last post Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith (pictured left) lost some chips, won some chips, and when we came back he was sitting with nearly 800K.  When we asked how he got all those chips, here is what he said:
“Three outed someone.  Got kinda lucky.”
Thankfully, Smith was kind enough to elaborate on [...]

Shannon Shorr (pictured right) has joined Maria Ho at his new table, and has stumbled upon some newfound chips too. Shorr had position with the board reading T96Q and bet when checked to. Shannon’s opponent called and the river brought the 2. Shorr’s opponent checked-called a bet again and mucked when Shannon tabled KJ for the [...]

After 5 hours of play the starting field of 135 for day 1A play has been reduced to only 99 players and down to 11 tables, taking up only a small portion of the tournament area and leaving plenty of room for cash games and single table satellites, along with the final table of the [...]