This play may only seem crazy to Phil Hellmuth.
Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson (pictured at left) was one of several players to call a raise of 600 with the blinds at 100/200 in level four of Event No. 28, a $1.5K NLHE event. Phil Hellmuth, who had showed up late and sat down in the seat directly [...]

Right after the players returned from their final break of the night Craig “MrCasino” Gray and Glenn “TheGFactor” McCaffery played a pot together at their table in the orange section. We missed the hand, but McCaffery told us that he raised to 38K in early position and action folded to Gray who shipped his 270K [...]

Jason “JCarver” Somerville (pictured at left) made it to heads-up play at the final table of the $1.5K NLHE Shootout event, but he couldn’t overcome a 3:1 chip deficit to win his first bracelet.
Just 20 or so minutes after the players got heads-up, Somerville went all in out of the small blind with Q6 for [...]

Mike “shipitthisway” McNeil’s sensational run in the $1.5K NLHE Shootout has come to an end. With eight players remaining and McNeil nursing a short stack, he moved all in with QT on a Q64 flop but found himself up against Joe Cutler’s set of sixes. The turn and river bricked for McNeil, who walked away [...]

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) [...]