Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh’s self-proclaimed “donkslide” began when he reraised a player with A-6 and was priced in to call when the player moved all-in with A-K.  A few hands later, the two players tangled again, getting it all-in preflop with Cody holding pocket jacks to the other player’s pocket queens.  The queens held and Cody [...]

There is a vaccuum sucking up chips in the middle of the $1.5K NLHE event and it is the table featuring Bertrand “ElKy” Grospellier, Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant, Darren Elias, Dylan “ImaLucSac” Linde (pictured left) , and later, Luke “bdbeatslayer” Vrabel.  The table has since broken, but we watched the following carnage before those seated at [...]

So we had incorrectly reported Devin “tranquilchaos” Porter (pictured right) had been eliminated on Day One.  We regret to inform you that he has in fact been eliminated this time.  It’s affirmative.  We poked him.  He was dead.  Porter had been nursing a short stack most of the afternoon or, as he and Full Tilt [...]

Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh (pictured at left) likes to play big pots, at least according to Thor Hansen. Hansen walked over to a nearby table to share this opinion with Slaubaugh’s neighbor, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, in the middle of this hand.
With the blinds at 500/1K, Slaubaugh re-raised the player on the button 9.5K more. The button [...]

Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby had been nursing a short stack since dinner break here on Day 1 of Event #34. But when we last saw him, he had run his stack up to 30K. Hamby was kind enough to enlighten us on his recent rush. According to Jared, he first doubled with two red eights. A [...]