Zak “traction” Gilbert (pictured at left) will begin day two of the $1.5K Stud Hi-Low event with one of the biggest stacks in the field. He bagged 36.3K in chips at the end of the night.
Gilbert and fellow PocketFiver Brett “Gank” Jungblut played this hand during the final level of the night with the limits [...]

When we walked up to the table Owen “ocrowe” Crowe’s (pictured at left) pre-flop re-raise was being called by the player in seat seven. We missed the exact amount of the raise, but, with the blinds at 1.5K/3K with an ante of 400, there looked to be at least 40K in the pot already when [...]

You would too if you had so many chips. While other players are just trying to survive to the end of the day, Tom “titantom32″ Braband (pictured left) has more pressing issues to deal with–namely, how to transport his ginormous 80K chip stack. To give you a means of comparison, the average stack [...]

Josh “SDouble” Schlein’s downward slide continued after our last post and with the betting limits moving up to 60K/120K he was left with less than two big bets. He eventually got his remaining 110K in the middle with 5-5-6-7 against Derek Raymond’s Q-10-4-3. The A-Q-6 flop didn’t offer much help for Schlein and [...]

Shortly after the final 27 players redrew for the last three tables in the $2.5K Mixed Hold’em Event, a short-stacked Eric “EFro” Froehlich (pictured right) found an opportunity to ship in his remaining 47K with the blinds at 2K/4K ante 500. The player to his immediate left thought briefly, got an exact count, and [...]