The first day of the WSOP wrapped up well after midnight last night, Eli Elezra leading the field with an official chip count of 302,900. Trailing just behind with 251,100, Amit “Amak316″ Makhija ended the day to Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers’ 216,700. Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar rounds out the top ten chip stacks with 194K. Day 2 [...]

Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi was knocked out when his AK got rivered by another players JT. The player holding JT pushed all in following Mizzi’s raise. Mizzi called the all in and when he saw the other players cards he asked “Are you rich?”. The other player responded with, “Well I needed to double up.” Unfortunately [...]

Although the 10k pot limit hold-em event was saturated with high-limit pros, 1988 Cy Young Award winner Orel Hershiser joined the fray in his first WSOP event.
Not exactly the easiest draw for one’s first crack at WSOP fame, but neverless Hershiser doesn’t feel like “dead money”, a term he described himself as last summer.
After moving to [...]

With the blinds at 400/800, Chris “Genius28″ Lee and the player in the cutoff raised back and forth pre-flop until Chris put the other player all in. Chris showed AQ while the other player had KK. The flop came 36K giving the other player top set, and the K on the turn sealed the deal giving him [...]

JC “PrtyPSux” Alvarado got all of his chips in with 99 against an opponent’s pocket queens. Alvarado stood up, preparing to head to the rail, until he saw the flop of K97. His set of nines held and JC Alvarado doubled to around 27K.
Shaun Deeb and Amit “Amak316″ Makhija tangled in level 4. With the [...]