The $2K NLHE is down to the final nine players and it is also down a P5er.  Peter “Nordberg” Feldman (pictured left) was eliminated by Eric “whItE_mAmbA” Ladny when Feldman moved all-in for the last of his chips with A7 and Ladny called from the big blind with K-Q and managed to spike a king [...]

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 [...]

Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby had been nursing a short stack since dinner break here on Day 1 of Event #34. But when we last saw him, he had run his stack up to 30K. Hamby was kind enough to enlighten us on his recent rush. According to Jared, he first doubled with two red eights. A [...]

With a smile from ear to ear, Leo “SuperfluousMan” Wolpert, pictured left, posed for pictures with his brand new WSOP Gold Bracelet.
On the final hand of the $10K Heads-Up NLHE Championship event, Wolpert limped the button and his opponent, John Duthie, checked his option. Duthie checked the T53 board and leo fired out a [...]

As the $1.5K NLHE Shootout went into the second break, we saw that several tables were already completed while several others were quickly progressing towards a winner.  Here are some of the P5ers still playing in the event:
-Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim and Kyle “dumpingkgb” Brossia are battling heads-up
-Thayer Rasmussen is the slight short stack in the [...]