Earlier Alexandre “Allingomes” Gomes took the chip lead with around 100k. Gomes is coming off his recent win at the Bellagio Cup WPT event and his confidence has to be high, but his 100k chip lead has been more than doubled by another player that has had recent success. Steven Begleiter is the [...]

We didn’t catch up with this hand until the turn but the winning player filled us in on the details.
Brandon “bgitty” Garrity (pictured left) and two other players saw a flop of K95 in a raised pot. All three players checked to the flop and the turn was the 2. One player in the [...]

Don’t count Dutch “havoj” Boyd” (pictured at left) out just yet boys and girls. On one of the first hands after the dinner break, Boyd pushed his stack in the middle after a raise to 2.3K and a call. The original raiser called and the other player opted to get out of the way. The [...]

Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy (pictured at left) has trended up the entire day. Josephy hit six figures after dinner break after flopping trips against an opponent’s two pair. Cliff’s opponent check-called 1K on the T66 flop and led for 3.2K when the J fell on the turn. Bax raised to 8K and his opponent called. The [...]

Jeff “yellowsub” Williams, Darryll “DFish” Fish and Moshin “chicagocards1″ Charania were among those eliminated before the money bubble in the $5K Six-handed NLHE event. There are 101 players remaining with the top 90 receiving a minimum of $9,159.
Williams moved all in prefop with A-J from the small blind and got looked up by the big [...]