Players have bagged their chips up for the night and Day 1D of the 2009 World Series of Poker is now complete. A record field of 2,809 filled the Rio and around 500 players were turned away as registration closed this morning. Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet told us that he received one af the last [...]

The number of PocketFivers playing in the $5K No-Limit Hold’em six-max event today is mind-blowing. We’ve counted almost 100 in the field already and it seems like every time we turn around another familiar face appears.
Some of the late arrivals we’ve spotted recently include David “Bakes” Baker, Isaac “Mr. Menlo” Baron, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby and [...]

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 [...]

Chris “cbdr3799″ Dombrowski continued to be very active in the first half of Level 8 and PocketFives caught up to the action at his table as he was raising under the gun to 2.3K. Three players called in position - both the blinds and the button. The flop came T9J and he bet [...]

Nearly ten feet away from about a dozen fans watching his every move, Dario Minieri’s aggressiveness had the floor staff searching for chip racks.
With chips stacked six racks high and a colony of chips left on the felt in front of him, Minieri (pictured right) has seen his chip stack go from 300k to 1.8 million in the last two rounds of the [...]