After fighting a short stack for over an hour, Shawn “sbuck21″ Buchanan (pictured right) got the remainder of his chips in the middle one last time in the $1.5K LHE Shootout. With the betting limits at 4K/8K Shawn only had around two big bets to his name at his 3-handed table. The pot [...]

As play gets short-handed, chips are changing hands at increasingly rapid rates in the $1.5K LHE Shootout event. Brock “t_soprano” Parker (pictured left) came back from dinner break with over 100K and shared the chip lead with tablemate Greg “FBT” Mueller. However, Parker said he failed to win a single pot since [...]

Tom “titantom” Braband (pictured left) is a force to be reckoned with in the Brasilia Room. Braband is sitting with an astounding 43K in front of him. The table is surely intimidated by the big stack, Tom opened three pots when we stopped to watch and took them all down without a single showdown.
Shaun [...]

Just shy of 3:30 a.m. Las Vegas time, the epic heads up battle between Shawn “sbuck21″ Buchanan and Craig “craigthedeac” Boyd finally ended, sending Buchanan to the second round of the $1.5K limit hold’em shoot and Boyd walking quickly toward the doors of the Brasillia Room.
At different points in the match each player was down [...]

Play has stopped for the evening in Event #49 and Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis (pictured left) has one of the bigger stacks in the room.
Billirakis battled a tough table with players such as Greyg “fossilman” Raymer, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Brett Richey and fellow P5er Justin Bonomo. Steve ended the day with 223K in chips.
Bonomo did not [...]