The board read 6642 when we caught up with the action on Dan “Wretchy” Martin’s (pictured at left) table. Just a few minutes before Martin had told us he was up to 71K. Martin asked his opponent how many chips he had before betting 12.3K. His opponent, who said he had around 80K behind, made [...]

After doubling with pocket eights earlier, Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers (pictured at left) was eliminated by them in the $5K NLHE event.
With 20 big blinds, Sowers open-shipped and was called by Fabian Quoss. The two tabled their cards and Mike found himself behind.
Sowers: QT
Quoss: 88
Sowers was crushed when the dealer flopped 862 and needed to catch [...]

If the expression on Maria “Maridu” Mayrinck’s face in this photo is any indication, she is rockin’ it out in the Ladies’ event, having doubled up twice in the span of an hour. First, Maria raised to 3.6K with the blinds at 800/1,600 ante 200 and one of the bigger stacks decided to look her [...]

The ten remaining players in Event #15 $5K NLHE have all been moved to one table. And, after filling out their bio sheets, the cards were in the air once again. When one more player is eliminated, it will be an official final table. The final nine will then bag their chips and move to [...]

Darryll “DFish” Fish has been short stacked for what feels like days in the $5K NLHE event. Fish recently chipped up above 300K, but was crushed when he ran A-Q into an opponent’s A-A. Left with 80K, Darryll had to work the short stack once more and did so effectively. Fish doubled up twice, the [...]