After fighting a short stack for over an hour, Shawn “sbuck21″ Buchanan (pictured right) got the remainder of his chips in the middle one last time in the $1.5K LHE Shootout. With the betting limits at 4K/8K Shawn only had around two big bets to his name at his 3-handed table. The pot [...]

Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo was the first P5er to hit the rail of the $50,000 HORSE Event. Bonomo could never get anything going after losing 2/3 of his stack late last night and was eliminated by Joe Cassidy in the Stud-8 round.
Bonomo was all in on sixth street and Cassidy called:
Justin Bonomo (X)(X)4AA3
Joe Cassidy (X)(X)5873
Cassidy flipped [...]

Adam “Roothlus” Levy flew out of the gate in event #51. He cruised into the first break with 10K, but has since stacked off and hit the rail. Levy, pictured left, took a hit and fell to 6K before getting it in with top-top.
The pot was raised pre-flop and Adam and an opponent saw a [...]

A sold-out field of 2,790 players has filled the Rio for today’s $1,500 No Limit Hold ‘em Event. Many who showed up with intentions of registering this morning are being turned away as the place is filled to capacity. For those of you who planned on playing today and didn’t register in time, there is [...]

Play has stopped for the evening in Event #49 and Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis (pictured left) has one of the bigger stacks in the room.
Billirakis battled a tough table with players such as Greyg “fossilman” Raymer, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Brett Richey and fellow P5er Justin Bonomo. Steve ended the day with 223K in chips.
Bonomo did not [...]