Before the dinner break there were plenty of people watching the action from the rail.  The casino was full but moving around was still possible.  It now looks like someone from the casino went out on the street and paid people to come in and crowd around the tournament.  As the night gets later more [...]

With ten minutes left on the clock all tables were told to finish the hand they were on then play 3 more hands.  After that play was complete for the day and after their chips were bagged up the players were off into the night to get some rest before returning tomorrow at noon for [...]

The second grouping of day 1 players at the WSOPE now have a full level under the belt.  The starting stacks are 30k and the blinds start out at 50 / 100 making the play pretty deep for the first few levels.  Even with the deep stacks the chips end up in the middle here [...]

Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger saw his Main Event run come to an end when he raised to 400K in middle position and Darvin Moon called from the hijack.The flop came down 633 and Lichtenberger bet out 680K. Moon raised to a total of 1.5 million and, after some thought, Lichtenberger moved all-in. Moon called [...]

It felt like we just blinked and suddenly there were 29 players left. Unfortunately, several P5ers fell in the rash of eliminations that left us with only two players to go before they bag, tag, and call it a night. One of the players to fall was Ryan “toetagu” Fair (pictured left). [...]