We missed the hand, but heard the commotion as Eric “basebaldy Baldwin (pictured right) and another player got it all-in on a KT6  flop for a massive 612K chip pot.  The other player tabled TT for middle set, which Baldwin had bested with his KK.  The K on the turn left the other player drawing dead [...]

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 [...]

Jonathan “therookieqq9″ Plens’ roller-coaster day has come to an end. With blinds at 25K/50K Plens raised to 135K in the cutoff and Anthony Scherer re-raised to 400K from the big blind. Plens moved in for his last 900K and Scherer made the call:
Plens: AK
Scherer: A8
Unfortunately for Plens, Scherer flopped top two pair and Jonathan couldn’t [...]

Jonathan “therookieqq9″ Plens picked up a big hand right after taking a hit to his stack that brought him down to one million. Plens (pictured at right) made it 100K preflop and his opponent with about 700K called in position. Plens bet 140K into the 300K pot on a J47 flop; his opponent moved [...]

Day Three has come to a close here at the Rio, with 474 players remaining in the race for the bracelet. All remaining players are guaranteed $25,090 with each lusting after the $9.1M prize. Because hand-for-hand play continued for quite awhile this evening, the tournament ended in an interesting fashion: staff held [...]