After just three levels of play Jack Effel and the tournament staff have sent the players home early once again. We started the day with 407 and the field cut itself in half to end with only 185 players. Those final 185 will return tomorrow at noon to play another five levels or however long [...]

Bryan Micon (pictured at left) was involved in a very strange hand over on Table 82 in the Orange Section of the Amazon Room. The board read J323 when we arrived. The small blind checked, the big blind bet 200 and three players called including Micon. The river was the 6 and both blinds [...]

Players recently returned from the dinner break and cards were in the air shortly after 9:40pm PST at the Rio. Play will continue this evening until 180 remain or until we complete one more two-hour level.
Just before the crowd in the Amazon Room dispersed for their suppers, several noteworthy things occurred, not the least of [...]

Justin “looshle” Pechie (pictured at left) managed to double up shortly before the last break of the evening.  With the blinds at 500/1,000 ante 100 a player raised to 2.5K preflop and Pechie called on the button with pocket tens.  The flop came 322 and the initial raiser checked to Justin who bet 6K, which [...]

Play concluded for Day 1A of the Main Event just after 1AM PST. Nearly half of the day’s entrants were eliminated in the 10K championship; 657 of 1,297 remain for Day 2 play. Day 1b will commence tomorrow at 12pm PST at the Rio, but before we get ahead of ourselves, here is [...]