Over the past half an hour, progressively less poker is being played here in the Amazon room as more and more players become caught up in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. All of the televisions in the Amazon Room are either being used as tournament clocks or to broadcast the game. We [...]

The $1.5K NLHE Shootout final table will be crowded with P5ers as it gets kicked off at 2:00 PT today. Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker, Tom “SBRounder” West, Matthew “hazards21″ Giannetti, Casey “ccmuneyâ€� Coleman and John “Ihave3pair” Strzemp will battle for the bracelet and first-place prize of $335,565. Each will start with 300K chips, and after the [...]

Play is finally underway for Round Two of the $1.5K NLHE Shootout event after the final, marathon heads up session of Round One came to a close.  The original plan was to break for one hour after the last table was completed, but when that table ran so late, they shortened the break to around [...]

Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks earned a trip to his first ever major live final table early this morning when the $2.5K NLHE Event reached its final nine players. Hanks (pictured right) will sit down with 755K in chips (5/9) with the blinds at 12K/24K and a 3K ante when play kicks off at 2:00 PT. First place [...]

Aaron “akat11″ Katz has been on quite a roller coaster ride the past two levels. He lost a large pot earlier when the blinds were 8K/16K when two shorter stacks moved all-in in front of him for approximately 120K each and he called with TT. The other players showed 55 and KQ [...]