After the early table break most of the empty seats around the room were filled in. Shaun Deeb was sent down to the poker room and filled the 9 seat at a table with Steven “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer in the 1 seat, Nick “fu_15″ Maimone in the 2 seat, Mike “Timex” McDonald in the 3 [...]

After just three levels of play Jack Effel and the tournament staff have sent the players home early once again. We started the day with 407 and the field cut itself in half to end with only 185 players. Those final 185 will return tomorrow at noon to play another five levels or however long [...]

The pace in the Amazon room slowed to a crawl as 64 players remained in Event #38, the $2K Pot-Limit Hold’em tournament. Hand-for-hand play endured for 45 minutes of the last level as players eyed the guaranteed payout of $3,744. When the bubble still hadn’t burst at the end of Level 10, groans were [...]

Amidst a field of star-studded live pros, Stu “thedonator” Patterson (pictured at right) continued to defend his chipstack in Event #37, the $10K Omaha 8 Championship. In the last level, Stu busted Jennifer Harman when his pocket jacks completed a 5-5-9-5-6 board for a boat. Patterson was maintaining his stack at about 75K [...]

With a below average stack in the middle stages of the 5k NL WSOP Event #21, Liz Lieu (pictured right) caught the break she needed at just the right time.
On a flop of 647, Gavin Smith led for 700 and Andy Black raised to 2k. Lieu 4-bet all-in for 8200. Smith folded (which he later said was [...]