The end of the road is near as the remaining 27 players prepare to play down to the November Nine on Day 8 of the WSOP Main Event. Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari and Jeff Schulman are the big names going in but the field is loaded with online superstars, including Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp, who is second [...]

It was a bittersweet and heartbreaking end of the day for Joe “LatestLines2″ Ward as he was the final elimination of the day in 28th place. Ward and fellow P5er Jamie “The New” Robbins got their virtually identical chip stacks in the middle preflop with Robbins’ AQ in bad shape against Joe’s AK. [...]

A back and forth battle between Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo and Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp rages on at the secondary feature table. First Kopp raised to 260K in middle position with the blinds at 50K/100K ante 10K and Tamayo called from the small blind. The flop came down QQJ and Tamayo checked to Kopp who [...]

It felt like we just blinked and suddenly there were 29 players left. Unfortunately, several P5ers fell in the rash of eliminations that left us with only two players to go before they bag, tag, and call it a night. One of the players to fall was Ryan “toetagu” Fair (pictured left). [...]