A quick start in a poker tournament is always nice, but often it doesn’t mean much.  Day 1 chip leaders rarely go on to win a tournament, or even make the final table.  So if a day ending chip lead means relatively little a lead during the first level of a tournament is worth even [...]

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 [...]

After Justin Young opened a pot Mike Matusow came over the top all in.  Young called when the action was back to him and Matusow saw that his AQ was in bad shape against Young’s AK.  There was a queen on the flop for Mike, but a king came along with it so the situation [...]

The Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio is down to just one table.  With the elimination of Robert Mizrachi in 11th place the tournament was briefly paused while the remaining players were combined at one 10 handed table where they will play down to the final 6.
Mizrachi (left) was all in [...]

After letting Jon Jaffe control the action for the first couple hours of play Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little changed gears and started getting involved in some pots. After a brief break for the players they were back in action and Little opened a pot to 125k. Matusow came over the top for just under [...]