The final $1.5K No-Limit Hold’em event of the 2009 World Series of Poker begins today. We’re expecting another sellout field here at the Rio and therefore a whole lot of PocketFivers hitting the felt.
Matt “mattster24″ Sterling (pictured at left), fresh off his final table finish in the $1.5K limit hold’em tournament, is expected to [...]

Joep “Pappe_Rukâ€� van den Bijgaary’s quest for a bracelet came to an end when he was busted by a fellow Dutchman; Marc Naalden. Joep will not return home to the Netherlands empty handed, he receives $18,136 (about €12,876) for his efforts.
With the elimination of van den Bijgaary in 7th place there are just six players [...]

The players are on a short break in Event #52 so that all the remaining re-buy chips can be exchanged in the Amazon Room. One player who will not be returning after the break is David “The Maven” Chicotsky
Chicotsky, pictured left, was crippled in a hand against Ivan Demidov and another opponent who was [...]

You may not have heard, but the WSOP got rid of rebuy events this year. As a result, the popular $1K NLHE w/ rebuys event had to be axed. In its place, we have today’s event. It is kind of like a rebuy in the sense that each player gets 9K chips [...]

Five-high was good and bad for Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh (pictured right) during the last level of play in the $1.5K NLHE event. Let’s start with the bad. With the blinds at 600/1,200 ante 100 it folded around to Cody in the small blind and he quickly grabbed a big stack of yellow 1K [...]