Joe “LatestLines2″ Ward is running well during this year’s WSOP Main Event. He’ll tell you that himself, especially after the way he scooped a massive pot just minutes ago to double up to nearly 3 million chips.
With the blinds at 12K/24K ante 3K a player raised from under the gun and Ward came along for [...]

Day 5 is underway here at the Rio and a couple of P5ers have benefitted from early double-ups
When we arrived at Table 82 in the Orange Section, Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle had Jesse “thor” Haabak (pictured left) all in and both players tabled their cards. Haabak held KK which dominated Hinkle’s 99. The board ran [...]

Scott “stsitron” Sitron tipped the dealer after his most recent double up. It was that good.
With the blinds at 2K/4K ante 500 and the money bubble approaching, the big stack at Sitron’s table raised to 11K and Scott reraised to 55K, leaving 58K behind. The original raiser moved all in and Sitron snap-called:
Sitron: JJ
Opponent: AA
Sitron [...]

We missed Jason “mkind0516″ Laso early on in the day, but he caught our attention during a hand in the past hour. With blinds at 100/200, player in middle position raised 600 and it folded around to Laso (pictured left) in the small blind, who raised to 2K. The original raiser called and saw a flop of [...]

In these large tournament fields with relatively small starting stacks, winning that first coin flip is a crucial step in playing your way down to the final table. During the first two levels of play in the $2K a couple of P5ers were on both sides of the race situation with very different results.
Nick “fu_15″ [...]