Before dinner break the official prize pool and payouts were announced by Jack Effel at the secondary feature table. Each member of the 2009 “November Nine” will receive a minimum of $1,263,602 and the winner will not only receive the most coveted bracelet of them all, they will also bank $8,546,435. Of the 6,494 players, [...]

Play has concluded for the evening in Event #52 here at the Rio and Blake “Balla-B13″ Cahail is the leader in the clubhouse with 120.8K. Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron is biting his heels with 114K.
Cahail, pictured left, stormed over 100K when he eliminated two players in the same hand holding aces. Ylon Schwartz opened from [...]

As we were wandering the room with play winding down in the $2.5K Mixed Game event, a voice echoed through the room as it screamed out, “Yes!!!” victoriously. We turned around to see none other than Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar (pictured left) jumping up and down at his table, pumping his fists in the air. Obviously, [...]

It didn’t take too long for David “Bakes” Baker to knock his table down from three players to one. Baker was the last man standing and he will return to fight again in Round Two tomorrow. Lex “RaSZi” Veldhuis (pictured at left) has moved on to day two as well.
Amit “amak316″ Makhija recently [...]

Several notable online players returned for Day 2 of the $1.5K NLHE event only to make an early exit shortly after play began.  One such player was Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (pictured at right) who found himself in a race situation pre-flop with pocket jacks versus another player’s A-Q.  The A-Q ended up victorious and Phil [...]