With the elimination of Ben Grundy in third place, P5er Rami “arbianight’ Boukai (pictured left) was heads-up with Najib Bennani for the bracelet and nearly $250K first place prize. Heads-up play began virtually even stacked, but on the first hand of play Boukai took down a big pot to pick up a 2 to 1 chip [...]

We’ve lost a couple of P5ers in the early goings of Day 2 here in the $2K NLHE event. Adam “akat11″ Katz made an early exit, as did Austin “quietwinner” McCormick when he ran his A-Q into pocket aces all-in preflop. Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti (pictured left) was also knocked out shortly after he lost around [...]

Justin “jurollo” Rollo was just eliminated from the $2K NLHE event when his QT couldn’t catch up to his opponent’s JJ. Rollo told us he went from 25K to 10K with the blinds at 300/600 and a ante of 75 when his flopped set of sevens was beaten by another player’s turned set of kings.
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