Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin (pictured left) owes the man formerly sitting to his left a beer.
We walked up after the river had been dealt. The board read J8442. Baldwin laid out a big stack of yellow and blue chips that looked to add up to about 20K. The other player thought for a minute [...]

Rami “arbianight” Boukai (pictured right) made his second final table appearance of the series in Event #30 this afternoon, but this time fell short of a bracelet. Boukai was the short stack at the table when he moved all in. The action had been potted and re-potted in front of him, so Rami actually had [...]

We’ve grown accustomed to Peter “Nordberg” Feldman laying kind of low during these poker tournaments, but we were both shocked and impressed when we realized not only had Feldman been playing in both the $1.5K HORSE and the $2K NLHE all day — he managed to cash in the former and is very likely the [...]

The blinds had just been raised to 1K/2K in Event #30 $2.5K PLO when Daniel Studer raised to 6K from under the gun. Darryll “DFish” Fish (pictured right) was next to act, and went deep into the tank. Fish counted out twenty yellow 1K chips in stacks of five. He shuffled them into two stacks [...]

The last hand of the day was worth $15,000 in cash to Isaac “Mr. Menlo” Baron.  He was able to eliminate Chris Ferguson and pick up a 5k bounty and also build his stack to 153,700 which was enough to put him past Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar in the chip counts and give him the $10,000 [...]