If you’ve perused the photo gallery, you may have noticed there are a few more shiny domes than usual. Last night, more than a dozen players congregated in Phil Ivey’s villa and shaved their heads as a display of solidarity for fellow poker player and P5er Thuy “ShesNoGood” Doan. Doan is currently battling [...]

Jared “soxnation83″ Mahoney is not easily convinced.
Mahoney (pictured at left) raised to 1.3K before the flop at his table in the Brasilia Room and the player in seat seven called. The flop came 984 and Mahoney bet 2.1K. The other player called and the turn was the 3. Mahoney checked and seat seven bet 6K. [...]

Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach was all smiles as players went on their first break of the day. On the last hand of the level with blinds at 50/100 Forhenback raised to 350 from under the gun, the button called and the player in the small blind raised to 1,400. Fohrenbach called and the other player [...]

Mohsin “chicagocards1” Charania (pictured right) has more chips than he started with today in the in $5K NLHE six-max event, but he told us that if not for a two-outer on the river he’d have almost 100K by now.
Charania said he raised to 525 with pocket fours with the blinds at 100/200 and the player [...]

The money bubble has burst in the $2.5K 6-max NLHE event. Steve “gboro780″ Gross (pictured at left) and Seth “grtwhitehoop” Fischer both made the money but have since been eliminated.
Gross lost the majority of his chips during the following hand. On a flop of QT6, Gross called a 4K bet to see the 3 on [...]