With 10 minutes remaining in the third level of Day 4 tournament director Jack Effel announced that play would be halted for the day. The remaining players didn’t even reach their dinner break. That should give you an idea of how fast players were eliminated today.
The goal was to reach 400 players by the end [...]

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and Owen “ocrowe” Crowe (pictured left) both crossed the million chip mark in the past hour.
Crowe was the first, and after doing so he was involved in the first million chip pot of the tournament. After six bets, Owen and Brian “snagglepuss” Powell who had 700K got it all in pre-flop. [...]

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 [...]

We reported earlier that Isaac “Mr. Menlo” Baron, Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy (pictured left) and Mike “SirWatts” Watson were all seated at the same table in Event #35 $5K PLO. Well Watts has moved to an adjacent table, but the three remaining P5ers have proceeded to steamroll the rest of the table.
With 28 [...]

Mike Sexton, Cole “cts” South and four other players put in 900 before the flop with the blinds at 100/200 in the 5K PLO event. We think that Sexton was the original raiser in the pot. The flop was 642. Sexton put the last four black chips he had in front of him into the [...]