Just minutes after eliminating Michael Dyer in 8th place and cracking the 1 million chip mark, Scott “stpauli111″ Hall (pictured left) was sent home in 7th at the hands of chip leader Peter Rho. With blinds at 20K/40K with a 5K ante, Rho raised to 105K in the cutoff and it folded over to Hall [...]

Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman (pictured left) just finished second-best in a three-way all in but managed to add 20K to his stack in the $2.5K NLHE event. Here’s how it went down:
With blinds at 1.2K/2.4K, Freeman opened for 6.1K in early position and Nicolay Evdakov called on the button. The big blind moved all in for 15K [...]

We spent a good amount of time searching for David “Doc_Sands” Sands (pictured right) after his table broke during the past level in the $2.5K NLHE event. You see, he was sitting on a stack of about 130K when we had last seen him, more than twice the average, so he had to be somewhere [...]

Jason “JAKoon1985″ Koon and Eric “white_mamba” Ladny were both eliminated short of the final table of the $2,000 No Limit Hold ‘em Event. We missed Koon’s bustout hand, but Ladny’s hand provided all the drama we live for in the late stages of a poker tournament.
With the blinds at 10K/20K and a 3K ante, Ladny [...]

Players returning for the $2K NLHE event were still attempting to wake up as they took their seats at Noon PT. Many were drinking coffee and a few had even cracked open a red bull. The biggest kickstart for everyone, however, was the elimination of the first player just five minutes into the day.
We’ve lost [...]