Earlier in the day we noted that the Bellagio has been forced to use the poker room as overflow when the Fontana Lounge is full, but that didn’t seem likely for today. Well, with the late registrants continuing to file in throughout the day and the single table satellites already taking up some space [...]

Around 75 players of the original 279 have made it through the first two day and 10 levels of play at the Legends of Poker WPT event. The top 27 get paid, and play will continue tomorrow until the money is reached. Isaac “mr. menlo” Baron was among the late day elimination and [...]

We didn’t catch up with this hand until the turn but the winning player filled us in on the details.
Brandon “bgitty” Garrity (pictured left) and two other players saw a flop of K95 in a raised pot. All three players checked to the flop and the turn was the 2. One player in the [...]

What a flop. Unfortunately Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer came up on the losing end of it. With the blinds at 300/600 O’Dwyer raised to 1.6K and three players called. The flop came TT4 and after one player checked O’Dywer led out for 7K. The player to his left raised to 17K and the other players folded. [...]

Craig “MrCasino” Gray ended Day 1 of the $1.5K NLHE event on a huge upswing, crossing the 100K mark by the end of the evening. One hand toward the end of the night helped propel him up the chip counts. We missed the preflop and flop action, but we saw Gray’s opponent bet [...]