As we were admiring the architectural marvel that was Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier’s enormous chip stack in the $1.5K PLO event, we happened to catch the biggest pot of the tournament so far. With the blinds at 1.2K/2.4K Mercier put in a pot sized raise from early position and Steve “PiKappRaider” Burkholder (pictured at left) called [...]

Level 3 (100/200 blinds ante 25) is underway and a number of players are having some trouble getting anything going.  One such player is Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti (pictured left).  Benvenuti raised preflop with pocket sevens and got one caller.  He thought he hit a dream flop when the board came K-7-2 rainbow.  He bet the [...]

Now that Level One and late registration have come to a close, the numbers are in and this event has a solid 283 runners, which means they will play four more levels today.
There are several notable PocketFivers spread throughout the tournament area and some tables have more than their fair share of internet pros.  Preliminary event [...]

Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby exited Day 1c at the beginning of Level 5. With five players seeing a flop of J-10-8, a player in early position led out for 3K and Hamby (pictured right) jammed his last 15K into the middle. It folded back around to the bettor, who called with the flopped straight (Q-9) and [...]

Level 4 of Day 1C saw a rash of eliminations starting with Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire (pictured at right). Devonshire had been towards the top of the leaderboard for the majority of the day, but lost a monster pot for his entire stack when he and another player got all-in with the same nut straight, [...]