Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza is on his way out of the Rio. Garza, whose stack had been dwindling since the dinner break, got the last of his chips in preflop with AQ but found himself in trouble against the AK of Phil Galfond. The board ran out 82239 and Garza was eliminated.
David “Bakes” Baker let out [...]

Action was fierce in Level 3 of the $40,000 No Limit Hold ‘em event.  Steve “gboro780″ Gross, Christian “charder30″ Harder and Jon “FieryJustice” Little all met their demise, while several other online stars took big hits to their stacks.
Gross (pictured at left), the top-ranked player on Pocket Fives,  lost a good portion of his stack before [...]

With most of the players already on their 30 minute break, those still hanging around in the Amazon Room surrounded Table 74 as Christian “charder30″ Harder (pictured left) was involved in a hand with Jason Rosenkrantz. With blinds at 300/600/75, Harder raised in late position and Rosenkrantz reraised to 6K out of the blinds. Harder made the call [...]

The 2009 World Series of Poker is underway! Many of the world’s most esteemed players have taken their seats in the $40,000 No Limit Hold ‘em special event, which commemorates the Series’ 40th anniversary.
Several online superstars are scattered around the Amazon Room, including Chris “moorman1″ Moorman, Shaun Deeb, Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar, Shannon Shorr, Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier, Steve “MrSmokey1″ [...]