“All in and a call on 239!”
We heard this and darted to the table to see Jason “JAKoon1985″ Koon (pictured at left) stick his last 11K in the middle. The board read 33QA and Koon’s opponent revealed 33. Jason tabled AQ and was drawing dead. He was collecting his things when the 5 rivered, and [...]

The players are on a short break in Event #52 so that all the remaining re-buy chips can be exchanged in the Amazon Room. One player who will not be returning after the break is David “The Maven” Chicotsky
Chicotsky, pictured left, was crippled in a hand against Ivan Demidov and another opponent who was [...]

The $5K PLO field is stacked with big name pros and online superstars as one would expect, but even in a section full of tables packed with talent, some stand out.
Table 13, for example, is home to Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar, Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson (pictured at right), Chris “Genius28″ Lee, Josh Arieh, Howard Lederer, Jamie [...]

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 [...]

Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin (pictured left) owes the man formerly sitting to his left a beer.
We walked up after the river had been dealt. The board read J8442. Baldwin laid out a big stack of yellow and blue chips that looked to add up to about 20K. The other player thought for a minute [...]