With the elimination of Ben Grundy in third place, P5er Rami “arbianight’ Boukai (pictured left) was heads-up with Najib Bennani for the bracelet and nearly $250K first place prize. Heads-up play began virtually even stacked, but on the first hand of play Boukai took down a big pot to pick up a 2 to 1 chip [...]

Ryan “late_entry” Gentry just won a half-million dollar pot in dramatic fashion in the $2K NLHE event. We caught up with the action after both players were all in before the flop. Gentry showed KK while the other player turned over A9. The flop was A62, giving his opponent the lead. However, the turn was [...]

Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier took a major hit to his stack during the last level of the of the $2K NLHE event with the blinds at 1.5K/3K with a 400-chip ante. Mercier raised in the small blind before the flop and was called by Kenny “hixx” Hicks (pictured at left) in the big blind. The flop [...]

The Jason Mercier Chip Tower located in the Amazon room has just been revamped.
In the $2K NLHE event Mercier was moved to Pat “BigRed0000″ Stemper’s table during the past level and each possessed one of the biggest chip stacks in the room. That didn’t last long.
With the blinds at 1.2K/2.4K Mercier raised to 5.9K from [...]

Amanda “Mandy_B” Baker (pictured right) was the “bubble girl” in the $2K NLHE Event #11. With blinds at 800/1600, Baker pushed her last 3700 in with 99 and was called by the big blind’s K5. The flop and turnwere kind to Baker but the K on the river sent her to the rail. Players were [...]