What a flop. Unfortunately Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer came up on the losing end of it. With the blinds at 300/600 O’Dwyer raised to 1.6K and three players called. The flop came TT4 and after one player checked O’Dywer led out for 7K. The player to his left raised to 17K and the other players folded. [...]

Okay, so no apple pie or baseball, but we do have the complete list of survivors from Day 1A at the end of this post so at least that is something. We’ve also got another fun-filled day of poker coverage headed your way as Day 1B of the Main Event kicks off at 12PM today.  [...]

Day 1A of the 2009 WSOP Main Event is in the books and both Darren Elias and Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp (pictured left) finished the day with just under 100K. Elias (97.9K) and Kopp (98K) are among the chip leaders entering Day 2 and will have plenty of room to work with close to 250 big [...]

We missed most of the action before the flop, but when we rejoined Matt “mcmatto� Affleck’s table the dealer was bring about 5.6K from Affleck and another player into the pot. (The table talk later informed us that Afflect had four-bet preflop.) The flop was dealt AKQ. Afflect bet 6.5K and his opponent quickly called. [...]

Christian “da_professional” Iacobellis picked up a nice double up when a player raised from under the gun to 750 with the blinds at 150/300. It folded around to Christian in the big blind and he called. The flop came down J32 and Iacobellis checked to his opponent who bet 1,225. Iacobellis [...]