He may have had a rough morning, but luckily for Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh (pictured left), his day has gotten much better since he arrived at the Rio. Slaubaugh, who is playing day one of the $1.5K NLHE event in the Miranda Room, told us he blew out a tire for the second time in a [...]

When we walked up to the table Owen “ocrowe” Crowe’s (pictured at left) pre-flop re-raise was being called by the player in seat seven. We missed the exact amount of the raise, but, with the blinds at 1.5K/3K with an ante of 400, there looked to be at least 40K in the pot already when [...]

It didn’t take long after the money bubble burst in the $1.5K NLHE event before players started dropping like flies. They hit the money at 296 players and an hour later they are down to right at 200 left. While Jason Gray and Grant “drossxyu” Hinkle appear to be MIA, other players have [...]

The $5K PLO field is stacked with big name pros and online superstars as one would expect, but even in a section full of tables packed with talent, some stand out.
Table 13, for example, is home to Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar, Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson (pictured at right), Chris “Genius28″ Lee, Josh Arieh, Howard Lederer, Jamie [...]

Players are getting knocked out at a rapid-fire pace in the $2K NLHE event. At 2PM we started with 220 players and still had a little ways to go before someone went out on the money bubble in 172nd place. In just two hours the field has shrunk to 139 runners and several P5ers like [...]