The pros get most of the attention at the major tournaments, but some of the best human interest stories come and go without anyone knowing much about them. Daniel “poncholoco” Youngblood (right) got the opportunity to play in a major live tournament through a satellite and though he has busted on day 2 play [...]

Noah “fouruhaters” Schwartz was sitting pretty with over 90k early in the day, but in no limit hold em the action can be fast and in the blink of an eye a mountain of chips can melt into the green felt in front of you. Noah made an aggressive move in a multi-way pot [...]

Say that five times fast.  We dare you.
Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter (pictured at left) made a lot of headway adding to his chip stack in the final level.  With the blinds 600/1200 ante 200 Devin raised in middle position and the player in the big blind called.  The flop came AJJ and both players checked.  When [...]

Carter “ckingusc” King (pictured left) has been hanging on by a thread all day; in fact, the patience he’s continually exhibited has been admirable. However, this patience was wearing thin as his stack was shrinking - when PocketFives caught up to Carter halfway through the last level of the evening, he had less than 15K [...]

Now back from dinner break and midway through Level 4, play continued in the Amazon room with the blinds at 150/300 and an ante of 25. And then there was madness.
One of the chip leaders at the end of last level, Brian “tsarrast” Rast (pictured at left), has been experiencing a rough go for [...]