After holding the chip lead for a majority of the tournament, Kofi “redsoxsox” Farkye experienced the brutality of no limit hold em.  In just a couple of hands he went from the chip leader to being the 31st place finisher.  The field had bunched up, with the chip leaders getting pulled back into the pack [...]

In a matchup with some history behind it, Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza was eliminated in 46th place by chip leader Kofi “redsoxsox” Farkye.  Garza was the last person eliminated before the next small pay jump, but he is in no way the only recent elimination.  Notably Erica Schoenberg (37th), Haralabos Voulgaris (40th), Nenad Medic (42nd), Maria [...]

With the elimination of Patrick Stemper the filed has been reduced to 63 players and everyone left is in the money.  Stemper was left short stacked after Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza was able to hit a flush to double through Stemper who had flopped a set, leaving Patrick with only 8k chips.
Kofi “redsoxsox” Farkye (right) will [...]

Once play got down to 69 players the action slowed and it looked like things would stall out and the day would end before making it to the money.  Then a flurry of bustouts came all at once, with Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke, Antonio Esfandiari, and Yevginey “Atimos” Timoshenko all falling out in the upper mid [...]

After hanging on as one of the short stacks all the way through day 2 and late into day 3, Josh “pbdrunks” Van Duyn (left) has been eliminated from the tourney short of the money.  As players continue to fall the money bubble gets closer and closer, and with 83 players left only 20 more [...]