Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin didn’t want to be the guy who says, “do you know who I am?”, but he was in a bit of a bind after arriving late in the $1.5K NLHE event.  Matt forgot his wallet and his dealer was unforgiving about the mistake and refused to let him play even when players [...]

Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin (pictured at left) has been shuffled from one tough seat to another in the Brasilia Room. Vengrin, who is playing day one of the $1.5K NLHE event today, was recently moved from a table with Jordan Morgan and Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista to the seat directly to Justin’s Bonomo’s right.
He has nevertheless been [...]

Another day at the Bellagio is in the books.  With about 20 minutes left in play the action was paused and a random draw was conducted to see how many more hands each table would play.  Matt Brady pulled a 4 and after each table finished their hands play was done for the night.  For [...]

With the deep stacks players are often tentative to get themselves overly involved in pots that could blossom out of control.  Even large hands are being played relatively slowly but some chips have been moving across the tables.  Sets and flushes are still big hands and players want to get some value out of their [...]

After a draw to see how many more hands will be played, each table will play out that set number of hands and then be done for the day. The Bellagio does this to prevent stalling at the end of the day. With somewhere around 20 minutes left in the day they draw [...]