And just like that, we are one day removed from the end of preliminary events here at the 2009 WSOP. While this final event isn’t over just yet, the vibe at the Rio is one of anticipation for the Main Event just around the corner. Still, there were 25 or so players with [...]

The field is growing increasingly smaller in the $5K NLHE 6-Max Event and the tournament area feels a little like a neighborhood block party as players wander from table to table when they are not involved in hands to check up on their friends and competitors and just say hello and stretch their legs.
Josh “brikdog24″ [...]

“It’s shaundeebs world and we’re just living in it.”
That is the latest tweet we’ve received from Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen, and we suspect Rasmussen’s jealousy to extend from this hand.
Shaun Deeb (pictured left) had just eliminated Davidi “legrouzin” Kitai in the $5K Six-handed NLHE event and was stacking his newly earned chips when a player [...]

At first we thought it was going to be a slow morning in the $1.5K NLHE.  As we strolled around the room everyone just looked, well, kinda sleepy.  The Miranda Room was very quiet at the start of today’s event. Some tables were short handed, which is to be expected, but there were numerous tables [...]

The blinds had just been raised to 1K/2K in Event #30 $2.5K PLO when Daniel Studer raised to 6K from under the gun. Darryll “DFish” Fish (pictured right) was next to act, and went deep into the tank. Fish counted out twenty yellow 1K chips in stacks of five. He shuffled them into two stacks [...]