Day 1A of the 2009 WSOP Main Event is in the books and both Darren Elias and Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp (pictured left) finished the day with just under 100K. Elias (97.9K) and Kopp (98K) are among the chip leaders entering Day 2 and will have plenty of room to work with close to 250 big [...]

Steve “thorladen” Weinstein (pictured left) lost over the course of the first two levels, but a big pot and a little luck changed that for him. There was 1,750 in the pot and three players who saw the flop fall 642. The small blind and a player in early position checked to Weinstein [...]

Players started today with 30K in chips and blinds at 50/100 which means there is a ton of play early on. Despite the relatively small blinds compared to the starting stack, several players got involved in big pots early on in Level One.
Within five minutes of walking into the Brasilia room to [...]

Jason “JP_OSU” Potter was eliminated early in day two of the $2.5K Mixed Event, which uses a rotation of eight different games. All the chips went in on the flop of T75 during a round of Omaha Hi-Low with Potter holding AT63 to Michael Binger’s AK43. The turn was the Q and the river was [...]

We didn’t see the hand, but it sounds like Kevin “ImaLucSack” MacPhee brought out the bulldozer in the past level of the $1.5K No Limit Hold ‘em event. MacPhee’s friend, Dylan “ImaLucSac” Linde, gave us the scoop:
With the blinds at 4K/8K a player in late position raised and MacPhee called in position. The flop brought [...]