Day 2A of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event is complete as approximately 630 of the original 1,476 players have survived the day. Among the chip leaders at the end of the day were Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp, Nick “gbmantis” Niergarth, Karec “K-Rock2525″ Terrell and Carter “cswidler” Swidler.
Many, however, hit the rail before the [...]

Craig “MrCasino” Gray (pictured at left) has been very patient here on Day 2A. His stack has slowly dwindled as the hours have passed, but Gray’s patience finally paid off just a few moments ago.
Craig got all in holding AA and his opponent rolled over KK. The A was in the window of the flop [...]

Steve “thorladen” Weinstein (pictured left) lost over the course of the first two levels, but a big pot and a little luck changed that for him. There was 1,750 in the pot and three players who saw the flop fall 642. The small blind and a player in early position checked to Weinstein [...]

Players started today with 30K in chips and blinds at 50/100 which means there is a ton of play early on. Despite the relatively small blinds compared to the starting stack, several players got involved in big pots early on in Level One.
Within five minutes of walking into the Brasilia room to [...]

After play had ended for the night in the $5K NLHE six-max event, we walked up to David “DavidP18″ Peters (pictured at left) and asked whether or not we had been correct to report that he had been under 5K at one point. He affirmed that we were correct an that just a few hours [...]