Mere minutes after heads-up play began between Peter “Belabacsi” Traply and Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger (pictured right), the two online pros got it all-in preflop in a classic race situation with Andrew holding AQ to Peter’s 66. Lichtenberger, who held the slight chip lead at the start of the hand, looked poised to grab his [...]

Ray “WirdPair” Foley (pictured at left) had never sat at a WSOP final table before today. Now he owns his own gold bracelet.
Foley saw his tournament life flash before his eyes when he got it all in against Brandon Cantu holding A-7. Cantu had A-Q, but the 558 flop gave Foley chop outs and the [...]

Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki has found a way to patiently pick up chips in the $2.5K Mixed Event since being crippled earlier when his pocket kings fell to pocket queens.
Klodnicki’s low point was 22K when he raised before the flop to 10K in a round of limit hold’em and then called a re-raise. The flop was [...]

The field Event #39 has more than halved since its 12 p.m. start earlier today. Of the 2,715 starters, only 1,270 remain.
Dutch “havoj” Boyd is one of the survivors, and he just added to his already big stack. The board read AKK2 and a player in the blinds checked to Boyd. Dutch bet 2K [...]

Jason “JCarver” Somerville was the first P5er to advance to tomorrow’s $1,500 NLHE Shootout final table. In what was certainly the most intriguing (for us anyway) heads up match of the day, Somerville bested Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki to move on for a chance at his first bracelet and a prize of $313,673.
Somerville (pictured left) handed [...]