Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby had been nursing a short stack since dinner break here on Day 1 of Event #34. But when we last saw him, he had run his stack up to 30K. Hamby was kind enough to enlighten us on his recent rush. According to Jared, he first doubled with two red eights. A [...]

With a smile from ear to ear, Leo “SuperfluousMan” Wolpert, pictured left, posed for pictures with his brand new WSOP Gold Bracelet.
On the final hand of the $10K Heads-Up NLHE Championship event, Wolpert limped the button and his opponent, John Duthie, checked his option. Duthie checked the T53 board and leo fired out a [...]

Players in the $1.5K NLHE event were sent on their dinner break about a half an hour ago, but one person who won’t be joining them when they return is Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke.  On the second to last hand before break Jimmy got in a preflop raising war that resulted in all the chips going [...]

Rami “arbianight” Boukai (pictured right) made his second final table appearance of the series in Event #30 this afternoon, but this time fell short of a bracelet. Boukai was the short stack at the table when he moved all in. The action had been potted and re-potted in front of him, so Rami actually had [...]

Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin didn’t want to be the guy who says, “do you know who I am?”, but he was in a bit of a bind after arriving late in the $1.5K NLHE event.  Matt forgot his wallet and his dealer was unforgiving about the mistake and refused to let him play even when players [...]