First and foremost, we apologize for not realizing Brian “ship_the_perc” Lemke was a P5er until after he took down Event #15, the $5K NLHE event.  That being said, we do want to send out a heartfelt congratulations to Brian for toughing through an arduous day in which players had to return to the Rio at [...]

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 [...]

At the beginning of the day, seven of the seventeen remaining players in Event #15 were P5ers. Now, only one remains.
A few hands before dinner break, Danny “dannyills” Illingworth (pictured left) open shoved 685K all-in from early position and was called by Thomas Keller in the big blind. They tabled their cards:
Keller:AK
Illingworth A8
Illingworth gained a [...]

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 [...]