Two separate incidents including PocketFivers have occurred on the floor of the Amazon Room within the past hour, and both required a floorman.
The first happened in a three way pot including Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby (pictured left). A player under the gun raised to 400, with the blinds at 75/150, and received one call from an [...]

Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich has been on a tear lately in the $1.5K Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event. There are currently 13 players remaining, including Rich and Senovio “Dorsal Fin” Ramirez.
 
Rich (pictured at left) won two big pots from the same player over a short time to help increase his stack to almost 700K, which [...]

The special 40K event is now down to the final nine. Tony G busted in tenth and collected $172,120 for his efforts. Isaac Haxton will be attendance at tomorrow’s final table, and he sports a 5.95 million chip stack. Other p5ers at the final table include: Lex “RaSZi” Velduis (3.8 million, pictured right), Alec “traheho” [...]

Alex Jacob joined James “mig.com” Mackey on the rail of the 40K NLHE event shortly after dinner break. We didn’t catch the action, but Jacob had QJ on a jack-high flop while his opponent had pocket aces.
Noah “fouruhaters” Schwartz has been active lately. With the blinds at 6K/12K/1K, Schwartz raised the action to 36K. Action [...]

The current tally of entrants in the 2009 Los Angeles Poker Classis is just under 700.  With 690 players in the field the top 63 will make the money with first place being over $1.6 million.  The number has a little more time to grow, though the 700 mark will be tough to reach.  Alvin [...]