Online stars went to battle and two P5ers emerged as chip leaders in the $3K Triple Chance NLHE event. Jason “JCarver” Somerville is the man everyone is chasing as he increased his stack to 451K during the past level while Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet is second in chips with 373K.
Somerville first won a big pot [...]

Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier (pictured left) appeared to have a rough Level Eight. When we last saw him he had moved all-in for his last 4,550 chips at the 300/600 ante 75 level. Another player at the table called with AK which had Mercier’s K7 in a pinch. The 984JJ board failed to [...]

Play in the $1.5K NLHE event is on their 90-minute dinner break (and so are we). Some players were able to chip up before heading out to get some grub. Craig “MrCasino” Gray picked up a nice pot at the 150/300 ante 50 blind level when he raised to 900 from middle position [...]

Jonathan “apestyles” Van Fleet (pictured at left) was all in on the flop against Kevin “ImALucSac” MacPhee we walked up to their table in the $3K NLHE Triple Chance event. MacPhee had apparently led out for 6.6K on the J83 flop because the chips were still out in front of his stack. It didn’t look [...]

He may have had a rough morning, but luckily for Cody “thugmoneymkr” Slaubaugh (pictured left), his day has gotten much better since he arrived at the Rio. Slaubaugh, who is playing day one of the $1.5K NLHE event in the Miranda Room, told us he blew out a tire for the second time in a [...]