After just three levels of play Jack Effel and the tournament staff have sent the players home early once again. We started the day with 407 and the field cut itself in half to end with only 185 players. Those final 185 will return tomorrow at noon to play another five levels or however long [...]

Carter “cswidler” Swidler spent the first couple hours of his day on the ESPN secondary feature table with WSOP bracelet winner Vitaly Lunkin. First, Lunkin took a chunk out of Swidler’s stack when his A-Q was able to outrace Carter’s pocket nines. Carter would have his revenge though. Lunkin raised to 22K [...]

“If I win this tournament, my liver’s going to explode,” J.C. “PrtyPSux” Alvarado (pictured at left) said during the last few hands of the night as the players at his table were enjoying a round of shots. “I’ll be drinking shots till November.”
The ESPN cameras came over to catch the fun, prompting Antonio Esfandiari [...]

Joe Sebok has been battling the nasty cold that has circulated its way around the Rio the past week or so. After starting the day with 120K he dropped as low as 30K and was feeling pretty terrible to boot. Apparently a little rest and some food can work wonders for a guy though, [...]

Dag Martin “dmmikkel” Mikelssen began Day 4 with nearly 1 million chips, ranking him fourth among the 474 going into the day. Those chips are now scattered across the Amazon Room, as Mikelsson was eliminated on the final hand of Level 17. He got his last 280K in preflop with KK and found himself against [...]