We missed the hand, but heard the commotion as Eric “basebaldy Baldwin (pictured right) and another player got it all-in on a KT6  flop for a massive 612K chip pot.  The other player tabled TT for middle set, which Baldwin had bested with his KK.  The K on the turn left the other player drawing dead [...]

Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh’s self-proclaimed “donkslide” began when he reraised a player with A-6 and was priced in to call when the player moved all-in with A-K.  A few hands later, the two players tangled again, getting it all-in preflop with Cody holding pocket jacks to the other player’s pocket queens.  The queens held and Cody [...]

Jonathan “therookieqq9″ Plens’ roller-coaster day has come to an end. With blinds at 25K/50K Plens raised to 135K in the cutoff and Anthony Scherer re-raised to 400K from the big blind. Plens moved in for his last 900K and Scherer made the call:
Plens: AK
Scherer: A8
Unfortunately for Plens, Scherer flopped top two pair and Jonathan couldn’t [...]

Day Three has come to a close here at the Rio, with 474 players remaining in the race for the bracelet. All remaining players are guaranteed $25,090 with each lusting after the $9.1M prize. Because hand-for-hand play continued for quite awhile this evening, the tournament ended in an interesting fashion: staff held [...]