Matt “mcmatto” Affleck (pictured at left) raised to 1.2K at his new table in the red section of the Amazon Room. Amarillo Slim Preston called on the button and the small blind came along as well. The flop was KJT and all three players checked. The turn was the K. The small blind checked and [...]

We just witnessed something bizarre on the last hand before the first break of Day 2A. As the Amazon Room was clearing out Ludovic “Cutsss” Lacay was involved in a big hand against another player. With the board reading 8559J Lacay (pictured left) fired out 15K into a pot of 25K. His opponent, who had [...]

Pocket aces have been making plenty of appearances at the tables of PocketFivers early on in Day 2A of the Main Event.
James “jdawg217″ Navolanic (pictured at left) was all in with aces against an opponent’s pocket kings after another player at the table said he folded his pocket queen. The board ran out JT8T6. Navolanic [...]

Day 2a of the WSOP Main Event is underway as 1,476 players have taken their seats in the Rio. They’ll be playing five two-hour levels and those that survive the day will advance to Day 3 on July 10, where all remaining players will merge together for the first time.
Blinds started at 200/400 with at 50 [...]