A silence fell over the room as Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp played his final hand in the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Kopp raised to 600K from under the gun and Darvin Moon called out of the small blind. Moon checked to Billy on the K92 flop and Billy fired out a 750K bet which [...]

Poker. What a fun game.
Jamie “TheNew” Robbins returned from his dinner break with less than five big blinds but seemed to be in good spirits after having his aces cracked. And then the poker gods poked their heads in on the WSOP Main Event yet again.
With the blinds at 120K/240K ante 30K Joe “jcada99″ Cada [...]

Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger saw his Main Event run come to an end when he raised to 400K in middle position and Darvin Moon called from the hijack.The flop came down 633 and Lichtenberger bet out 680K. Moon raised to a total of 1.5 million and, after some thought, Lichtenberger moved all-in. Moon called [...]

Nick “FU_15″ Maimone’s (pictured left with Andrew Lichtenberger) good fortune continued as he doubled up for a second and a third time this past hour. First he tangled with Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith who opened for a raise to 320K with the blinds at 60K/120K ante 15K and Nick reriased in position to 825K [...]

Nick “fu_15″ Maimone, seated at the ESPN featured table today, just earned himself some camera time. Maimone moved his last million in preflop at 60K/120K blinds and Phil Ivey called from the button. The blinds folded and Maimone and Ivey revealed their hands:
Ivey: JJ
Maimone: Q5
The T82 flop was no help to Maimone but the Q [...]