The Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio is closing in on the final 6, but with some controversy along the way.  Before the hand in question that eliminated John Juanda and brought the field down to 10 players both Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers and Lee Salem were eliminated.
Sowers moved all in for [...]

In the first 8 hands at the final table of the WPT Championship Shannon Shorr (right) was all in 4 times, each time picking up the pot without getting called.  Shorr started the day as the shortstack with 1,130,000 but his aggressive play early allowed him to pick up a lot of blinds and antes, [...]

Stretching out five fingers of one hand and dangling a bracelet from his other hand, Scotty Nguyen celebrated his fifth WSOP bracelet sitting in front of a pile cash after winning the 50k HORSE WSOP Event #45.
Nguyen started a final table stacked with poker’s biggest names second in chips, trailing only Erick Lindgren, who finished third. The HORSE [...]

After a marathon day of hold ‘em yesterday, Eric “jakz101″ Crain (pictured below) played another grueling day of cards today in the $1.5K HORSE event.  Eric promised Pocket Fives he was either going to end the day as the chip leader or out.  Looks like it is going to be the latter.  After playing virtually every [...]