Event #5 $1.5K Pot-Limit Omaha is down to 13 runners in the Amazon Room, and 4 PocketFivers remain. Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier is healthy with roughly 310K in chips, but Matt “Hazards21″ Gianetti (pictured left) just took a hit on this hand:
With the flop reading T75, Giannetti forced Vic Park all-in, and Gianetti held KT92. Park [...]

As we were admiring the architectural marvel that was Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier’s enormous chip stack in the $1.5K PLO event, we happened to catch the biggest pot of the tournament so far. With the blinds at 1.2K/2.4K Mercier put in a pot sized raise from early position and Steve “PiKappRaider” Burkholder (pictured at left) called [...]

Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin (pictured at left) has been shuffled from one tough seat to another in the Brasilia Room. Vengrin, who is playing day one of the $1.5K NLHE event today, was recently moved from a table with Jordan Morgan and Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista to the seat directly to Justin’s Bonomo’s right.
He has nevertheless been [...]

The first of nine $1,500 No Limit Hold’ em events at the World Series of Poker has kicked off here at the Rio. Close to 2,800 players have already registered, with more expected during the first two levels of play.
P5er Grant “drossxyu” Hinkle (pictured at right) won this event last year, taking home $831,462 and his [...]