Before dinner break the official prize pool and payouts were announced by Jack Effel at the secondary feature table. Each member of the 2009 “November Nine” will receive a minimum of $1,263,602 and the winner will not only receive the most coveted bracelet of them all, they will also bank $8,546,435. Of the 6,494 players, [...]

Jonathan “apestyles” Van Fleet (pictured at left) was all in on the flop against Kevin “ImALucSac” MacPhee we walked up to their table in the $3K NLHE Triple Chance event. MacPhee had apparently led out for 6.6K on the J83 flop because the chips were still out in front of his stack. It didn’t look [...]

Play has concluded for the evening in Event #52 here at the Rio and Blake “Balla-B13″ Cahail is the leader in the clubhouse with 120.8K. Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron is biting his heels with 114K.
Cahail, pictured left, stormed over 100K when he eliminated two players in the same hand holding aces. Ylon Schwartz opened from [...]

At first it looked like Table 72 was breaking, which didn’t make sense. Only one player, Steve Zolotov, has been eliminated, and all the other tables are filled.
All the players, including Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein and Pat “TorontoToro” Pezzin (pictured left), proceeded to move to a different table near the back of the Orange Section. Greenstein [...]

Many of the tables in the Brasilla Room, which is playing host to round one of the $1.5K limit hold’em shootout, are still eight and nine handed, including the table belonging to Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke (pictured at left).
Fricke raised before the flop and was re-raised by the player in seat two with the limits at [...]