The day 1A players have gone on their first 20-minute break of the day here at the Rio. They will play the next two-hour level with the blinds at 100/200 then take their dinner break because there will only be four levels played today.
Tournament director Jack Effel informed is that there are close to 1,100 [...]

Jonathan “apestylesâ€� Van Fleet (pictured at left) was all in on the flop against Kevin “ImALucSac” MacPhee we walked up to their table in the $3K NLHE Triple Chance event. MacPhee had apparently led out for 6.6K on the J83 flop because the chips were still out in front of his stack. It didn’t look [...]

With Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith’s win last night, our P5s bracelet tally is sitting at a pretty ten out of 36.  Impressive, yes, but we’re greedy and we want more more more!  We’ve got a shot today too with both Ian “IanJ” Johns and Alex “Kadabra” Keating at the final table of the $2K LHE event.  [...]

There are only 51 more seats available for Event #39 today, and we presume that by the end of Level 2 this tournament will be sold out. During most $1.5K NLHE events the Rio is consumed by people, but as the Series nears the Main Event the crowds get bigger and bigger.
Every table in Brasilia [...]

Garrett “Gbecks” Beckman (pictured right) is rarely outspoken at the poker table. Many see Beckman with his hood up, carefully studying the game and the players around him. Garrett opened up a bit in a hand against a very outspoken player, Mark Seif. Seif limped from early position and action folded to the small blind [...]