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 [...]

Zak “traction” Gilbert (pictured at left) will begin day two of the $1.5K Stud Hi-Low event with one of the biggest stacks in the field. He bagged 36.3K in chips at the end of the night.
Gilbert and fellow PocketFiver Brett “Gank” Jungblut played this hand during the final level of the night with the limits [...]

Scott “gunning4you” Seiver was very disappointed when his table in the $1.5K Stud Hi-Low event, which included Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier, was broken. He jokingly tried to convince the floor that his table was playing a sit-and-go and was not part of the tournament.
“I sit and they go,” said Seiver, who has built up an impressive [...]

When we walked up to the table Owen “ocrowe” Crowe’s (pictured at left) pre-flop re-raise was being called by the player in seat seven. We missed the exact amount of the raise, but, with the blinds at 1.5K/3K with an ante of 400, there looked to be at least 40K in the pot already when [...]

It didn’t take long after the money bubble burst in the $1.5K NLHE event before players started dropping like flies. They hit the money at 296 players and an hour later they are down to right at 200 left. While Jason Gray and Grant “drossxyu” Hinkle appear to be MIA, other players have [...]