After losing half his stack on the final hand of the night yesterday when his jacks ran into Vanessa Rousso’s kings, Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan (pictured right) has doubled his starting 17k stack twice and currently sits at 60k in the 1.5k NL WSOP Event #52.
“It’s been a roller coaster tournament for me,” Ryan said.
Ryan won his first [...]

Play concluded in Event #52, the $1.5K No-Limit Hold’em tournament just before 1AM PST with 228 players remaining in the field. Several PocketFivers will return at 2PM tomorrow to contend for the bracelet and the $625,443 payout; amongst them are Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh, Josh “pbdrunks” Van Duyn, Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan, and Alvin “alsmooth” Zeidenfeld.
We caught [...]

The bubble just burst in the $1.5k NLHE tournament and while Cody “thugmoneymakr” Slaubaugh, Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan, and Josh “pbdrunks” Van Duyn have all made the money, Scott “gunning4you” Seiver bust out just a couple spots shy of earning a payday.
When the blinds were at 500/1,000/100, Scott (pictured right) called a short stacked player’s 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 [...]

As play neared the dinner break, we observed several players getting increasingly bored with play and daydreaming about where to go find some food.  The field has dropped from 2,700 to 640 and now are seated almost entirely in the blue and green sections of the Amazon room.
Ben “bfineman” Fineman (pictured at right) and Bryan [...]