Tom “titantom” Braband (pictured left) is a force to be reckoned with in the Brasilia Room. Braband is sitting with an astounding 43K in front of him. The table is surely intimidated by the big stack, Tom opened three pots when we stopped to watch and took them all down without a single showdown.
Shaun [...]

Shaun “Cougars4444″ Hendrickson, Tom “titantom32″ Braband and Dave “doubledave22″ D’Alesandro are among those thriving in the $1,500 No Limit Hold ‘em Event (#51). Hendrickson (pictured left) has more than tripled his stack after calling a bluff in Level 3. With blinds at 75/150 a player made it 450 to go from middle position and Hendrickson [...]

Mike “SirWatts” Watson took a pretty brutal beat in Level One to leave him with only ten big blinds. We missed the preflop action, but we did see a player bet out around 4K on a K96 flop and Watson thought for a minute before raising to 10K total. The other player didn’t [...]

Half of the 2,500 player field in Event #24 $1.5K NLHE has been eliminated in just six hours. That’s almost four players a minute. Tables in Miranda and Brasilia are breaking rapidly, and we are doing our best to track down the players being relocated.
One player who we will not find is Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania. [...]

It wasn’t surprising to see action heat up early in the winner-take-all format of the $1,500 NLHE Shootout. Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks and John “JRD312″ Dolan both came up short in big pots to cripple their stacks early in the second round, while Tom “titantom32″ Braband was able to win a big hand to nearly double [...]