We’re down to just 873 of the original 1,981 Day 1a starters and short stacks are suddently finding themselves in desperation more with the blinds increasing to 400/800 with a 100 ante. There seems to be an all in every time we blink. Tim “tmay420″ West, Jeff “yellowsub” Williams and Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer were among [...]

Event #54 is down to 117 runners in the Brasilia Room and Josh “theNorfman” Norris just received a big double up holding pocket queens.
Action folded to Norris, pictured left, who raised to 10.5K with the blinds at 2K/4K/500. A player in the blinds three-bet to 30K and Josh shipped his stack in the middle. His [...]

Peter “Belabacsi” Traply (pictured left) is the second player to advance to the final table of the $5K NLHE Shootout. He picked up big hands at the right time to defeat a tough six-handed table today.
Two of the world’s top-ranked online tournament players collided while play was three-handed. Traply and David “Bakes” Baker got all [...]

Amit “amak316″ Makhija was the lone P5er sent to the raill during the first two levels of the $5K NLHE Shootout Round 2. Lex “Raszi” Veldhuis eliminated the first two players at their table but it was Maxim Lykov who got the best of Amit. Lykov raised on the button and Makhija moved his short [...]

Play in the $1.5K Pot Limit Omaha Event has moved along rapidly today, and amazingly the last four remaining at the final table are all players we’ve been keeping tabs on since yesterday’s coverage.
Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier (pictured left), Steven “PiKappRaider” Mercier, Kevin “kice32″ Iacofano and Matt “hazards21″ Giannetti had all locked up fourth-place money of [...]