Ben “98 Mute” Yerushalaim (pictured at left) struggled during the first two levels of play, floating under the starting stack of 30K. Finally, during Level 3, Yerushalaim gained some momentum.
We don’t know the exact numbers, but Yerushalaim called a raise in middle position and so too did a player in the blinds. The flop fell [...]

When we asked Andy “BKiCe” Seth (pictured left) how he got so many chips, here is what he said:
“I made the nuts.  Repeatedly.”
Andy didn’t have the stone cold nuts in the hand he told us about, but it was still a pretty substantial nearly 30K pot.  Seth raised preflop and another player just called.  The [...]

After navigating through a sea of Dennis Phillips fans dressed up in white shirts and Cardinals caps, we came upon Clayton “clayton27″ Newman (pictured left) in the midst of what would be a very big hand.  We missed the preflop action, but we watched as the player under the gun checked to Newman on a [...]

Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer and Roberto Romanello have finally finished battling in the $10K heads-up championship. O’Dwyer has officially joined the final eight participants in the event.
O’Dwyer got a couple of much-needed double-ups since our last update, each of which gave him back the chip lead in a match that last almost four hours.
All the money [...]

As the $1.5K NLHE Shootout went into the second break, we saw that several tables were already completed while several others were quickly progressing towards a winner.  Here are some of the P5ers still playing in the event:
-Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim and Kyle “dumpingkgb” Brossia are battling heads-up
-Thayer Rasmussen is the slight short stack in the [...]