The second grouping of day 1 players at the WSOPE now have a full level under the belt.  The starting stacks are 30k and the blinds start out at 50 / 100 making the play pretty deep for the first few levels.  Even with the deep stacks the chips end up in the middle here [...]

Nick “fu_15″ Maimone’s unbelievable run of fortune on Day 8 came to an end just moments ago as the Charlotte native was sent home in 15th place. After building his stack as high as 12 million earlier in the day Maimone (pictured left) lost a couple sizable pots in the past level and then played [...]

Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger saw his Main Event run come to an end when he raised to 400K in middle position and Darvin Moon called from the hijack.The flop came down 633 and Lichtenberger bet out 680K. Moon raised to a total of 1.5 million and, after some thought, Lichtenberger moved all-in. Moon called [...]

The remaining 18 players are redrawing for new seats as the final two tables of the Main Event have been reached. Six players were eliminated since our last report, including P5er Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo.
Tamayo moved all in over the top of an Eric Buchman raise for 3.2 million with A-Q and Buchman made the call [...]

Nick “FU_15″ Maimone’s (pictured left with Andrew Lichtenberger) good fortune continued as he doubled up for a second and a third time this past hour. First he tangled with Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith who opened for a raise to 320K with the blinds at 60K/120K ante 15K and Nick reriased in position to 825K [...]