He came into heads up play with only about half as many chips as Josh Arieh but Daniel Alaei was able to rally, win a big race and go on to take the title at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
Josh Arieh had a shot to win the title when he had Danny [...]

With Josh Arieh holding a majority of chips it didn’t take long in heads up play before one of the short stacks was all in and called.  Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka moved all in for 2.59 million (blinds at 100k / 200k 15k ante) and Danny Alaei called with pocket kings.  Faraz had the A6 but [...]

The short stacks at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic found the time right to get the chips in the middle.  With the blinds up to 80k /160k and a 15k ante and Josh Arieh amassing the lion’s share of the chips it was time for the rest of the players to ratchet [...]

After coming into the day as the short stack things started slowly for Josh Arieh.  He wasn’t invovled in many pots early on and it looked like Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer was the short stack that was going to assert himself and make a move.  O’Dwyer ended up busting and since then Arieh has went on [...]

Play at the final table went for a few hours with not a lot changing from where the players started the day.  The most notably movement was that of Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer (right) in the very early going where he went from a million chips up to around 2 million.  After that chips moved around [...]