It’s Saturday, so you know what that means: another $1.5K NLHE event! We expect yet another 2,000 person plus field packed with P5ers who will all hopefully make it on to Day Two. We have already seen some of them trailing in this morning, including Hunter “The_Hunt_d” Frey, Jamie “thecronic420″ Rosen,  Kevin “ImaLuckSac” MacPhee, and [...]

When we walked into the Miranda Room, we heard a lot of laughing coming from Table 268. This is standard when Joe Sebok (pictured left) is around, but a few drinks around the table have amplified the noise. Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck finds Table 268 distracting and tried to fight Sebok in the middle of the [...]

Several P5ers have decided to give the evening HORSE event a go even though they haven’t played the game all that often in their lifetime.  During the first break, Dan “Wretchy” Martin told us his entire table was making fun of how terrible he was, yet he has somehow managed to work his 9K starting [...]

After doubling with pocket eights earlier, Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers (pictured at left) was eliminated by them in the $5K NLHE event.
With 20 big blinds, Sowers open-shipped and was called by Fabian Quoss. The two tabled their cards and Mike found himself behind.
Sowers: QT
Quoss: 88
Sowers was crushed when the dealer flopped 862 and needed to catch [...]

If the expression on Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck’s face in this photo is any indication, she is rockin’ it out in the Ladies’ event, having doubled up twice in the span of an hour. First, Maria raised to 3.6K with the blinds at 800/1,600 ante 200 and one of the bigger stacks decided to look her [...]