The final numbers at the Bike tallied up to only 279 entrants, almost 100 players short of a year ago and well shy of the field sizes from a few years back.  Last year John Phan defeated a field of 373 players, but this year he and all the other defending Legends of Poker champions [...]

For the fourth consecutive year PocketFivesLive will be covering the Legends of Poker Main Event at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, CA. Last year the event drew 373 players and John Phan emerged as the victor after defeating Amit “Amak316″ Makhija in heads up play.
On August 26th a new Legends of Poker champion [...]

After a long heads up battle in which both players were oh so close to claiming the title, John Phan ultimately came out on top. The last hand was another coinflip, with Amit “Amak316″ Makhija moving all in and Phan making the call.
Amit had the K7 and Phan had pocket threes. The board [...]

John Phan had chipped away at Amit “Amak316″ Makhija after the two went back and forth around even for a few hands. After taking a small lead, Phan was able to win a couple of pots to get up to around 9.5 million while Makhija was left with less than 1.5 million.
In a pot [...]

Both players have been one card away from having the title locked up.  For John Phan the one card away from the title scenario just played out again.  Amit “Amak316″ Makhija raised to 320k and Phan called.  On the K74 flop Phan checked to Makhija who bet 380k.  John the raised to 800k and Amit [...]