For those who missed it late last night, Zac “Zacpacker” Fellows became the sixth P5er to earn a bracelet at the 2009 World Series of Poker when he defeated James Van Alstyne heads up in the $3K HORSE event. It was the seventh bracelet for the Pocketfives community in just 21 events. Fellows (pictured right) [...]

Mike “shipitthisway” McNeil has advanced to his first World Series of Poker final table.
After 13 hours of single-table play McNeil disposed of his last opponent in the $1.5K No Limit Hold ‘em Shootout. With McNeil holding a 3-1 chip lead his opponent moved all in with K8 and McNeil called with AQ. The board ran [...]

Jason “JCarver” Somerville was the first P5er to advance to tomorrow’s $1,500 NLHE Shootout final table. In what was certainly the most intriguing (for us anyway) heads up match of the day, Somerville bested Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki to move on for a chance at his first bracelet and a prize of $313,673.
Somerville (pictured left) handed [...]

It is that time of night where players are trying to double up or get out in the $1.5K NLHE event. Aditya “intervention” Agarwal was sitting at nearly twice the average stack, but the following hand helped shoot him up to 57K and put him in great shape to keep moving forward in the tournament:
With [...]

Three events are on break at this time but the $1.5K No Limit Shootout and $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo events are still going strong.
Jason “JCarver” Somerville and Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki have been battling frequently in the Shootout and still have the two biggest stacks at their table. We caught up with the two online [...]