In the course of two hands Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin went from being poised to pick up his second bracelet of the year to third place finisher in the $10K PLHE event. Baldwin was sitting on the chip lead with 3.2 million chips and the blinds at 60K/120K when Kirill Gerasimov raised to 300K from [...]

The enormous blinds in the $10K PLHE Championship have really forced the action. They are currently at 50K/100K, meaning even if a player has a million chips, they are still not in great shape. JC “PrtyPSux” Alvarado was sitting on 1.5 million when he minraised to 200K and John Kabbaj reraised to 700K total. [...]

Josh “SDouble” Schlein’s downward slide continued after our last post and with the betting limits moving up to 60K/120K he was left with less than two big bets. He eventually got his remaining 110K in the middle with 5-5-6-7 against Derek Raymond’s Q-10-4-3. The A-Q-6 flop didn’t offer much help for Schlein and [...]

The stack of Kyle “thetruth503″ Zartman’s (pictured at left) had shrunk dramatically since we last checked on him in the $2.5K Mixed Hold’em event, even before this hand took place.
After a series of pre-flop raises Zartman had another player all in during a level of limit hold’em with the blinds at 2K/4K with limits of [...]

At first, the final table of the $10K PLHE event has been kind to the short-stack. Eugene Todd Bro doubled up at the hands of Eric “Basebaldy” Baldwin when his pocket nines held against Baldwin’s KQ. Todd’s stack bumped up to over half a million chips while Baldwin’s dipped to a million.
Then, a [...]