He may have had a rough morning, but luckily for Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh (pictured left), his day has gotten much better since he arrived at the Rio. Slaubaugh, who is playing day one of the $1.5K NLHE event in the Miranda Room, told us he blew out a tire for the second time in a [...]

When we walked up to the table Owen “ocrowe” Crowe’s (pictured at left) pre-flop re-raise was being called by the player in seat seven. We missed the exact amount of the raise, but, with the blinds at 1.5K/3K with an ante of 400, there looked to be at least 40K in the pot already when [...]

It didn’t take long after the money bubble burst in the $1.5K NLHE event before players started dropping like flies. They hit the money at 296 players and an hour later they are down to right at 200 left. While Jason Gray and Grant “drossxyu” Hinkle appear to be MIA, other players have [...]

Five-high was good and bad for Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh (pictured right) during the last level of play in the $1.5K NLHE event. Let’s start with the bad. With the blinds at 600/1,200 ante 100 it folded around to Cody in the small blind and he quickly grabbed a big stack of yellow 1K [...]

We reported earlier that Isaac “Mr. Menlo” Baron, Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy (pictured left) and Mike “SirWatts” Watson were all seated at the same table in Event #35 $5K PLO. Well Watts has moved to an adjacent table, but the three remaining P5ers have proceeded to steamroll the rest of the table.
With 28 [...]