We actually made it through the scheduled five levels on Day 6 as the starting 185 players trimmed down to 64 when the tournament clock hit zero. Unbelievably, more than a quarter of the field is made up of P5ers, including Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp, who is among the chip leaders going into Day 7 with [...]

Jordan “iMs0lucky0″ Morgan’s table broke during the first level and he joined a new table with Theo “pittrounder” Tran, Craig “craigthedeac” Boyd and Owen “ocrowe” Crowe. Unfortunately his visit was short-lived.
With the blinds at 8K/16K with a 2K ante Tim Kahlmeyer raised preflop and Morgan re-raised to 150K. Kahlmeyer put in a 4-bet and Morgan [...]

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 [...]

After taking three big hits, Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron (pictured left) has gone from 2 million in chips to busto.
Lika Gerasimova delivered the first hit. Baron raised to 100K from middle position with the blinds at 20K/40K/5K, and Gerasimova pushed all in for 450K. Isaac begrudgingly made the call, and was way behind when Lika tabled [...]

The hot streak continues for Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar.  For the last year or so he has been one of if not the hottest player in tournament poker, going deep in event after event and chalking up some big wins.  So far the Bay 101 Shooting Star event is going his way as well.  He has [...]