Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and Owen “ocrowe” Crowe (pictured left) both crossed the million chip mark in the past hour.
Crowe was the first, and after doing so he was involved in the first million chip pot of the tournament. After six bets, Owen and Brian “snagglepuss” Powell who had 700K got it all in pre-flop. [...]

At a point yesterday, Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp (pictured left) was short stacked after his aces were cracked by Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier’s KQ. Kopp plummeted below 20 big blinds, but battled throughout the day to regain his chips.
Now, on Day 2, Billy is among the chipleaders with 300K after a huge hand with Nenad Medic.
Medic [...]

During the first level after their dinner break, Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier were involved in a big hand in the Amazon Room.
Action folded to Grospellier in late position who raised to 2.5K with the blinds at 500/1000. Kopp, pictured left, re-raised to 5.5K on the button and action folded back to ElkY [...]

In our last post we reported about Bertrand “ElKy” Grospellier’s rise to the top of the $1.5K NLHE Event #34 leaderboard. His reign didn’t last very long.
Grospellier lost most of his stack to Steven Bradbury when he ran his pocket kings into Bradbury’s pocket aces preflop. He went into the 20-minute break with less than [...]

That’s how Young Phan put it when referring to the absurdity going on in Day 3 of the $1.5K NLHE Event (#34). Four of our P5ers have been involved in the craziness so far.
First, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier picked a great spot to make a move early in the first level of the day. With the blinds [...]