Noah “fouruhaters” Schwartz was sitting pretty with over 90k early in the day, but in no limit hold em the action can be fast and in the blink of an eye a mountain of chips can melt into the green felt in front of you. Noah made an aggressive move in a multi-way pot [...]

Day 1A play finished up with JC Tran leading the way with 160k in chips.  A few players have jumped out to a quick start today and are on pace to finish up with more than the high water mark of 160k.
Here are some of the chip counts around the room:
Jamie Rosen - 100k
Noah “fouruhaters” [...]

With his bags packed a little heavier than usual, Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke can now start looking for a flight to make his move to Vegas official. Jimmy has all his clothes packed up and is making the move to Nevada, with a brief stop in Niagara Falls to play the tournament here. Early [...]

In cash games you can pick your spots, and if you don’t like your table you can either choose to find another table or just not play. Tournaments don’t offer a player that option, and some of the table pairings today are not what the players were hoping for in their day 1 starting [...]

In the $1.5k PLO w/Rebuys tourney only six players have been eliminated in the first hour of play. Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, Dan “Stainley88″ Adams, and Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker are amongst the early casualties who weren’t able to cash in this event.
Bowker’s elimination came when he got it all preflop with a great drawing hand, the AKQT against [...]