James “mig.com” Mackey will look to defend his $5K NLHE title when the event kicks off this afternoon. Last year, Mackey (pictured left) weaved his way through 640 players and a final table that included Michael Binger, Tex Barch, Nick Schulman and Mike Gracz to earn $730,740 and become the third-youngest bracelet winner ever. Last year’s [...]

Eliminated in 7th place at tonight’s final table for Event #16, Scott “BigRiskky” Clements took home $36,232 in his second final table appearance in this year’s World Series of Poker. From under the gun, Scott opened with a raise, only to be met by a reraise from chipleader Ted Forrest. The big blind also got [...]

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 [...]

As players begin to drop at a quicker rate in the $1.5K shootout a couple of P5ers survived key double ups with AK.  First Craig “MrCasino” Gray (pictured at right), who got as high as 100K before losing a good chunk of it bluffing into David Redlin’s quads, got it all in with AK versus Thor [...]

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 [...]