After the early table break most of the empty seats around the room were filled in. Shaun Deeb was sent down to the poker room and filled the 9 seat at a table with Steven “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer in the 1 seat, Nick “fu_15″ Maimone in the 2 seat, Mike “Timex” McDonald in the 3 [...]

The second grouping of day 1 players at the WSOPE now have a full level under the belt.  The starting stacks are 30k and the blinds start out at 50 / 100 making the play pretty deep for the first few levels.  Even with the deep stacks the chips end up in the middle here [...]

What a flop. Unfortunately Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer came up on the losing end of it. With the blinds at 300/600 O’Dwyer raised to 1.6K and three players called. The flop came TT4 and after one player checked O’Dywer led out for 7K. The player to his left raised to 17K and the other players folded. [...]

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 [...]

Eight remain in Event #28 $1.5K NLHE and Jason “JPOSU” Potter, pictured right, sits comfortably with 1.6 million in chips. In a recent hand, Potter opened to 100K with the blinds at 20K/40K/5K. Short stacked, Mike Zulker raised all in and Potter made the call. The hands were tabled, and looked like this:
Potter: KJ
Zulker: KQ
The [...]