Day 2 of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic is about to get underway and players are taking their seats and unbagging their chips. For the moment, the man to catch is Darryll “DFish” Fish, who is the chip leader with 236,625 chips, but P5ers Jon “PearlJammer” Turner, Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp and [...]

October is the best time of year in Vegas and today is one of those perfect days. The weather at noon is in the low 70’s with the sun shining. Everything looks bright, crisp and clean and it is just the type of day that can put a smile on the face of [...]

From the early stages of the tournament the camera’s were regularly trained on Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier. He built up a stack early and if you found yourself at Mercier’s table it is likely you were at a feature table, or had a camera looking over your shoulder for much of the day at one [...]

The final four came back from the dinner break and it didn’t take longs for the chips to be in the middle. After Daniel Negreanu and Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier split a pot where both were holding K9 the next major action was between local favorite Praz Bansi and Barry Shulman.
Bansi had raised [...]

There was a discussion of foregoing the dinner break and the players agreed. The plan was quickly nixed by the working crews, who insisted on the break. Without much arguement the final four headed out on dinner break, and if they haven’t had enough of each other already they could all head over [...]