Granted, he came in as the short stack with only 130K, but Justin “Boosted_J” Smith was one of the elite eight at the final table of the $10K Stud Hi/Lo Championship Event.  He busted out shortly after the official televised final table commenced and will receive $54,896 for his finish.
Smith was in some good company with Doyle [...]

We had an unfortunate situation in the third day of the $2K NLHE tournament. Jack “doctor_fun” Powell (pictured right) fell just short of the final table on a very painful hand. Powell opened to 58K with the blinds at 12K/24K/3K and action fell on Pat Atchison in the small blind. Atchison examined Powell’s stack before [...]

It’s Saturday, so you know what that means: another $1.5K NLHE event! We expect yet another 2,000 person plus field packed with P5ers who will all hopefully make it on to Day Two. We have already seen some of them trailing in this morning, including Hunter “The_Hunt_d” Frey, Jamie “thecronic420″ Rosen,  Kevin “ImaLuckSac” MacPhee, and [...]

Shortly after play in the $2K NLHE combined to three tables, we watched as two P5ers simultaneously faced tough decisions for their tournament life.
At one table, Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich got involved in a big pot with tournament chip leader Warren Woodall.  With around 60K in the pot already, Jordan bet out 35K on a KK8 [...]

Shannon Shorr (pictured right) has joined Maria Ho at his new table, and has stumbled upon some newfound chips too. Shorr had position with the board reading T96Q and bet when checked to. Shannon’s opponent called and the river brought the 2. Shorr’s opponent checked-called a bet again and mucked when Shannon tabled KJ for the [...]