As we made our first trip through the Miranda Room this morning, where some of the players in the $1.5K NLHE event are starting, we spotted Austin “leet8s” Frenkel play this hand.
Frenkel raised to 175 from the cutoff and the button called. The flop was 842 and Frenkel bet 275. The button called again and [...]

The start of day 3 at the World Poker Tour Championship has seen a lot of 3, 4 and 5 betting preflop.  162 players made it to the start of day 3, and as the action continues on deeper and deeper into the tournament the size of pots and intensity over each hand is increasing.  [...]

The poker Gods may have forgotten yesterday that it was Jimmy “Gobboboy” Fricke’s (right) 22nd birthday but they made up for it today during the 4th level of play.  Jimmy was able to grind his way to around 115k and then he doubled through Matt “Mattg1983″ Graham when his AK outran Matt’s pocket queens.
After that [...]

Hoyt Corkins finished up the second level of the day strong busting both Hevad “RainKhan” Khan and Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little.  Aditya “Intervention” Agarwal, Adam “Roothlus” Levy, Amit “Amak316″ Makhija, Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista, Tim “Tmay420″ West, Garrett “Gbecks” Beckman and Zach “CrazyZachary” Clark have all been eliminated as well.  Roughly 90 players made it through the [...]

With about 25 minutes left before the dinner break Adam “Roothlus” Levy (left) was eliminated from the LAPC, bringing the field down to 550 remaining players.  After clearing out the tent earlier in the day, enough eliminations have occurred to start breaking tables in the  main room.  As the tables along the outside edge clear [...]