In the $1.5k PLO w/Rebuys tourney only six players have been eliminated in the first hour of play. Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, Dan “Stainley88″ Adams, and Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker are amongst the early casualties who weren’t able to cash in this event.
Bowker’s elimination came when he got it all preflop with a great drawing hand, the AKQT against [...]

The $2.5K NLHE final table wrapped up earlier this evening with Duncan “Pumper” Bell taking down the title after he eliminated Steve Merrifield with pocket aces to Merrifield’s pocket tens.  Bell takes home the bracelet and the first place prize of $666,777.  Shawn Buchanan finished 4th, earning $218,491.
Nearly 8.5 hours after play in the $1.5K [...]

Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks (pictured left) lost a crucial 1 million chip pot when he got it all in with AK on the flop of AK5 against the 78 of Steve Merrifield. The turn brought the 9, giving Merrifield four more outs, and the Q spelled disaster for Hanks as his stack was slashed down to 250K. [...]

Leo Wolpert (pictured at right) got his 600 chips back plus a little extra when he busted Craig Gray in a coin flip situation.  He now sits at around 25k.  Dan “Stainley88″ Adams’ chip stack has been heading in the opposite direction and he is down to 3k. 
The prize pool and payouts were announced after [...]

Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach raised to 250 on the button and Alex Jacob called from the big blind.  The flop came Q 4 3 with two clubs, Jacob checked, and Fohrenbach bet out 325.  Jacob, who had just less than 2K left in chips repotted and Richard reraised enough to put him all in.  Jacob called and [...]