Day 2 play at the Bay 101 Shooting Star WPR tournament will continue until out of the 145 players that started the day only 36 remain.  For day 1 play the levels were an hour long, but for day 2 all levels will be 90 minutes, giving more play as the tournament works towards the [...]

Out of the 256 players that started day 1B 46 have already been eliminated and many more have had their tournament lifes at risk.  Blake “Balla-B13″ Cahail, Mohsin “ChicagoCards1″ Charania, and Clayton “Clayton_27″ Newman have all had the blue all in button in front of them and all have survived.  For Charania and Newman, double [...]

Thayer Rasmussen and another player got all the chips in preflop with Thayer holding the AK against the other players QQ. The flop was an incredibly dramatic AKJ to give Thayer two pair and the lead while giving his opponent a gutshot straight draw. That gutshot filled when the turn came with the T putting [...]

The last time we talked at length about Scott “ssitron” Sitron he had just folded pocket queens after four players moved all in ahead of him only to find out they were way the best hand.  Scott may not have cashed in that event, but in today’s $1.5K No Limit Hold Em event he soared [...]

It looked to be a showdown of the North Carolinians when Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers (pictured at left) was moved to Court Harrington’s table after the dinner break.  Before the two could tangle, Sowers got involved with another player at the table when he raised to 2,050 in late position with the blinds at 400/800 and [...]