With a well earned reputation for being tight it can be hard to catch Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar (pictured) in a hand.  He did play one of the biggest pots of the tournament so far though, and eliminated November Niner Steven Begleiter in the process.  What would it take for Aguiar to be involved in such [...]

A quick start in a poker tournament is always nice, but often it doesn’t mean much.  Day 1 chip leaders rarely go on to win a tournament, or even make the final table.  So if a day ending chip lead means relatively little a lead during the first level of a tournament is worth even [...]

Day 1A of the 2009 WSOP Main Event is in the books and both Darren Elias and Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp (pictured left) finished the day with just under 100K. Elias (97.9K) and Kopp (98K) are among the chip leaders entering Day 2 and will have plenty of room to work with close to 250 big [...]

Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh (pictured at left) likes to play big pots, at least according to Thor Hansen. Hansen walked over to a nearby table to share this opinion with Slaubaugh’s neighbor, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, in the middle of this hand.
With the blinds at 500/1K, Slaubaugh re-raised the player on the button 9.5K more. The button [...]

Tables are breaking in the Amazon Room, and the remaining participants in the 2K event are being dispersed throughout the room.
We found bracelet-winner Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier (pictured at at left) sitting next to Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka on one table. They are both very comfortable, sitting with 72K and 55K respectively. Also accounted for are Steve [...]