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 [...]

Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin’s phenomenal World Series of Poker has come to an end here on Day 1D of the Main Event. Baldwin (pictured right) was short stacked midway through Level 3 and moved all in for his remaining chips with pocket jacks and was called by a player’s A-K. The flop and turn were kind [...]

Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh (pictured at left) likes to play big pots, at least according to Thor Hansen. Hansen walked over to a nearby table to share this opinion with Slaubaugh’s neighbor, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, in the middle of this hand.
With the blinds at 500/1K, Slaubaugh re-raised the player on the button 9.5K more. The button [...]

As we noted in our last post, there are some intriguing match ups in the $10K Heads-Up NLHE event, including several pairings in which a “young internet whiz kid” is matched up against a “sage, wise live pro.”
One such match-up is Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman (pictured left) and Antonio Esfandiari.   We missed the preflop and flop [...]

In the second to last hand of the night in Event #13 $2.5K NLHE, Brett “threatnasty” Switzer raised from middle position. The action folded to Phil Ivey in the small blind, and he pushed all in. The big blind folded, and Switzer called with AK. Ivey tabled AT, but his hand did not improve and [...]