After Justin Young opened a pot Mike Matusow came over the top all in.  Young called when the action was back to him and Matusow saw that his AQ was in bad shape against Young’s AK.  There was a queen on the flop for Mike, but a king came along with it so the situation [...]

The money bubble at the North American Poker Championship was quick and painless, well, painless for everyone except Mike “Timex” McDonald and Steve Sung. McDonald was eliminated in 47th place, setting up hand for hand play, but before the other tables could finish their current hands so hand for hand could start Steve Sung [...]

Down to 900 chips in the 1.5k NL WSOP Event #52, Josh “pbdrunks” VanDuyn (pictured left) didn’t have any problem doubling up off his roomate Markus “LURPED” Gonsalves.
Granted, looking down at AK will make any friend worth going to war against when you are short in a tournament but nevertheless, VanDuyn seemed to get great pleasure [...]

Players recently returned from their dinner break in the $2K No-Limit Hold’em event, ready for action. The original field of 2,317 has been reduced to 480 in the last level, condensing play to one section of the Amazon Room. The average chip stack sat at 18K.
Several PocketFivers made moves to chip up, including [...]

Theo Tran’s wave of success in the 2008 WSOP has continued in the 10k Heads-Up NL WSOP Event #25.
Tran has three finishes in the top 25, finishing as high as fourth place twice. Drawing Andy Bloch in second round, Tran had a difficult draw to advance but overcame it when his A3 best Bloch’s 44 [...]