With only 103 players left, money bubble play is in full force.  Players finishing between 71st and 100th will earn $21,620 and around the room there are a lot of short stacks trying to hold on.  Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter, Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg, and Andy “BKiCe” Seth are all among the shortstacks on the bubble who [...]

Both were in with the best of it, and eliminated from the tournament by the time their respective hands were complete. David “DavidP18″ Peters ran into a hot Jason “JP_OSU” Potter while Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen (left) ran into perennially hot David Pham.
Potter had been aggressive, raising a lot of pots and after another player [...]

Players are in the 4th level of the day, with blinds of 200 / 400 with a 50 ante. Jason “JP_OSU” Potter is still the chip leader with around 160k and recently picked up a pot without showdown to continue to add to his stack. Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim and Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen were [...]

Thayer Rasmussen and another player got all the chips in preflop with Thayer holding the AK against the other players QQ. The flop was an incredibly dramatic AKJ to give Thayer two pair and the lead while giving his opponent a gutshot straight draw. That gutshot filled when the turn came with the T putting [...]

As hand-for-hand play continued well past the end of Level 14, players were either anxiously awaiting the money bubble or falling asleep at their tables. Play was frenetic as camera crews ran up and down the aisles, trying to capture players’ best and worst moments. However, cheers recently erupted in the Amazon room, signifying that [...]