With Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith’s win last night, our P5s bracelet tally is sitting at a pretty ten out of 36.  Impressive, yes, but we’re greedy and we want more more more!  We’ve got a shot today too with both Ian “IanJ” Johns and Alex “Kadabra” Keating at the final table of the $2K LHE event.  [...]

During the last level of the 10K PLO event, an epic five-way all-in hand was played and a couple P5ers were part of the action. When we walked up to the table a flop of J75 had been dealt and it looked like the playing in seat four, Nenad Medic and Lex “RaSZi” Veldhuis were [...]

As we noted in our last post, there are some intriguing match ups in the $10K Heads-Up NLHE event, including several pairings in which a “young internet whiz kid” is matched up against a “sage, wise live pro.”
One such match-up is Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman (pictured left) and Antonio Esfandiari.   We missed the preflop and flop [...]

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 [...]

At the beginning of the day, seven of the seventeen remaining players in Event #15 were P5ers. Now, only one remains.
A few hands before dinner break, Danny “dannyills” Illingworth (pictured left) open shoved 685K all-in from early position and was called by Thomas Keller in the big blind. They tabled their cards:
Keller:AK
Illingworth A8
Illingworth gained a [...]