Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka has been keeping busy at his table in the $5K NLHE six-max event, raising and re-raising in practically every hand he’s playing…and he’s playing a lot of hands.
He raised to 1.6K before the flop and got two callers in one hand we watched him play. The flop was QT5. It was checked [...]

Jonathan “apestyles” Van Fleet (pictured at left) was all in on the flop against Kevin “ImALucSac” MacPhee we walked up to their table in the $3K NLHE Triple Chance event. MacPhee had apparently led out for 6.6K on the J83 flop because the chips were still out in front of his stack. It didn’t look [...]

The players are on a short break in Event #52 so that all the remaining re-buy chips can be exchanged in the Amazon Room. One player who will not be returning after the break is David “The Maven” Chicotsky
Chicotsky, pictured left, was crippled in a hand against Ivan Demidov and another opponent who was [...]

There are only 51 more seats available for Event #39 today, and we presume that by the end of Level 2 this tournament will be sold out. During most $1.5K NLHE events the Rio is consumed by people, but as the Series nears the Main Event the crowds get bigger and bigger.
Every table in Brasilia [...]

Both Daniel “amichaikk” Makowsky and Eric ”whitE_mAmbA” Ladny, (pictured at left) who had been the chipleader for much of the final table in the $2K NLHE event, have been eliminated from the event.
A short-stacked Makowsky was eliminated in sixth place. His pocket threes fell to an opponent’s A-K when a king came on the flop.
Ladny’s road [...]