Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis was the latest to head out of the Amazon Room from the $40,000 No Limit Hold ‘em event and his exit was painful. With the blinds at 3K/6K, Phil Galfond opened to 16K in middle position and Billirakis (pictured at left) raised to 46K from the small blind. Galfond pondered a move for [...]

It didn’t take long for the remaining 89 players in the 40K NLHE buy-in to get their chips into play. The players returned to begin Level 11 with the blinds at 2.5K/5K with a 500 ante.
Chris “moorman1″ Moorman doubled up early when his AT held up against his opponent’s KT when the board ran out QQ6JT. [...]

Action was fierce in Level 3 of the $40,000 No Limit Hold ‘em event.  Steve “gboro780″ Gross, Christian “charder30″ Harder and Jon “FieryJustice” Little all met their demise, while several other online stars took big hits to their stacks.
Gross (pictured at left), the top-ranked player on Pocket Fives,  lost a good portion of his stack before [...]

After losing with kings to aces it wasn’t long before Chris “Moorman1″ Moorman (left) had the rest of his chips in the middle.  With the field still sitting on 38 players Moorman moved in for just under 40k and Andy Bloch called with AK.  Moorman had a fighting chance with his pocket fives until an ace [...]

Aces agaist kings, what can you do?  The debate of whether you can ever fold kings preflop floats around and some come up with ways to get off the hand, but not many people can find a way to dump kings preflop in a pot played only 2 ways.  Add to that being on the [...]