We just witnessed something bizarre on the last hand before the first break of Day 2A. As the Amazon Room was clearing out Ludovic “Cutsss” Lacay was involved in a big hand against another player. With the board reading 8559J Lacay (pictured left) fired out 15K into a pot of 25K. His opponent, who had [...]

Steve “thorladen” Weinstein (pictured left) lost over the course of the first two levels, but a big pot and a little luck changed that for him. There was 1,750 in the pot and three players who saw the flop fall 642. The small blind and a player in early position checked to Weinstein [...]

Right after the players returned from their final break of the night Craig “MrCasino” Gray and Glenn “TheGFactor” McCaffery played a pot together at their table in the orange section. We missed the hand, but McCaffery told us that he raised to 38K in early position and action folded to Gray who shipped his 270K [...]

Jason “JCarver” Somerville (pictured at left) made it to heads-up play at the final table of the $1.5K NLHE Shootout event, but he couldn’t overcome a 3:1 chip deficit to win his first bracelet.
Just 20 or so minutes after the players got heads-up, Somerville went all in out of the small blind with Q6 for [...]

The Jason Mercier Chip Tower located in the Amazon room has just been revamped.
In the $2K NLHE event Mercier was moved to Pat “BigRed0000″ Stemper’s table during the past level and each possessed one of the biggest chip stacks in the room. That didn’t last long.
With the blinds at 1.2K/2.4K Mercier raised to 5.9K from [...]