Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista must be on the nice list this year.  He just got an early Christmas present at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic when Jean Noel Thorel made a play that left a lot of people trying to figure out what just happened and left Chad with a mountain of chips [...]

We gave you an long list of chip counts from the $5K NLHE six-max event before the players went on break, but here is some action we saw during the last level before dinner to tide you over until the players get back at around 8:30 p.m. Las Vegas time.
On a flop of 543, Dani [...]

Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich has been on a tear lately in the $1.5K Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event. There are currently 13 players remaining, including Rich and Senovio “Dorsal Fin” Ramirez.
 
Rich (pictured at left) won two big pots from the same player over a short time to help increase his stack to almost 700K, which [...]

David Baker (pictured left) was involved in a huge hand with Kirill Gerasimov and Evan McNiff. All three players were all in preflop, and Baker found his QQ ahead of Gerasimov’s KJ and McNiff’s A8. The flop was less than friendly though, as Ax27 hit the felt. McNiff’s top pair jumped ahead of Baker, and [...]

As the players in the Event #2, the 40K No-Limit Hold ‘em tournament, returned from their last break Andrew “good2cu” Robl stopped to talk to David “Raptor517″ Benefield and Dani “Ansky” Stern before taking his seat. Benefield had been nursing a short stack for quite some time, so Robl made a few jokes about Benefield’s [...]