Day 2A of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event is complete as approximately 630 of the original 1,476 players have survived the day. Among the chip leaders at the end of the day were Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp, Nick “gbmantis” Niergarth, Karec “K-Rock2525″ Terrell and Carter “cswidler” Swidler.
Many, however, hit the rail before the [...]

With the blinds at 150/300 during the last level of the Main Event Day 1B, Nathan “darkcheck_” Tuthill (pictured left) made a re-raise to 2.4K from the small blind and the player on the button called. The flop was QT3. Tuthill bet 3.2K and the button called. The turn was the 3. Tuthill checked, the [...]

David “doubledave22″ D’Alesandro’s (pictured right) Main Event is off to a terrific start. He doubled up within the first ten minutes of play.
D’Alesandro told us he raised to 250 under the gun with the blinds at 500/100 holding QT. It folded to the player in seat one, who threw one yellow chip into the pot [...]

Tom “titantom” Braband (pictured left) is a force to be reckoned with in the Brasilia Room. Braband is sitting with an astounding 43K in front of him. The table is surely intimidated by the big stack, Tom opened three pots when we stopped to watch and took them all down without a single showdown.
Shaun [...]

Barry “barrg1″ Greenstein (pictured at left) just completed an impressive day one of the $2.5K Mixed Hold’em Event. Greenstein bagged 177K at the end of the night, almost three times the average of 59K. He will almost certainly be the chipleader at the beginning of play on Thursday.
During a level of limit hold’em with [...]