The number of participants has reached 2,500 players in today’s $1.5K NLHE event. We noticed some interesting table draws while scoping out the Amazon Room during the first level. Bracelet winner Rami “arbianight” Boukai (pictured left), Tony “Bond18″ Dunst and Bryan Micon are seated together right near the room’s entrance. Scott “gunning4you” Seiver and Jordan [...]

The Jason Mercier Chip Tower located in the Amazon room has just been revamped.
In the $2K NLHE event Mercier was moved to Pat “BigRed0000″ Stemper’s table during the past level and each possessed one of the biggest chip stacks in the room. That didn’t last long.
With the blinds at 1.2K/2.4K Mercier raised to 5.9K from [...]

Players around the table were still discussing the following hand that occurred in the 1K NLHE event several minutes after it ended, when Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar cleared things up nicely.
“Obviously, we have a little bit of history,” he said, referring to the former holder of the chips he was stacking, Steve “gboro780” Gross (pictured at [...]

While Kofi “redsoxsox” Farkye and Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers have built their stacks up to over 200k, another list of players have been eliminated.  Among the recent eliminations, an always vocal Mike Matusow is no longer part of the tournament.  He was all in against James “mig.com” Mackey with AQ against Mackey’s pocket tens and was [...]