Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh (pictured at left) likes to play big pots, at least according to Thor Hansen. Hansen walked over to a nearby table to share this opinion with Slaubaugh’s neighbor, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, in the middle of this hand.
With the blinds at 500/1K, Slaubaugh re-raised the player on the button 9.5K more. The button [...]

We just caught Steve “SteveyBallGame” Merrifield’s elimination from the $1.5K 6-handed event as we were walking back to the media room to report. With blinds at 200/400, Merrifield raised to 1.1K from under the gun and the player directly to his left raised to 3K. Action folded back around to Merrifield, who moved all in [...]

The play in Event #52, the $1.5K No-Limit Hold’em tournament, has finally condensed into the blue section of the Amazon room and is down to nine-handed tables as they approach the money. The field reduced to 350 of 2,693 at the end of Level 8; the money bubble should burst when 270 players remain.
Action [...]

Matt “mattg1983″ Graham is the early chip leader of today’s $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-handed event. With players still making their way into the Amazon Room, Graham (pictured right) called a raise of 175 out of the big blind with 43 and another limper called. The flop brought A-3-3 rainbow and Graham led out for [...]

Shane “shaniac” Schleger has decided to take over as table captain in Day 2 of the $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em event, which got kicked off at 2:00 PT. Schleger has been very active early, raising and re-raising often and moving chips at a table which includes Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski and current chip leader Michael Binger, who [...]