After the dinner break concluded, play resumed in the Brazillia room with several PocketFivers still in play in the $2K No-Limit Hold’em event. At Table #61, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby (pictured at left) sat short-stacked, his chip count about 35K. Aggressively pursuing more from the cutoff with the blinds at 3K/6K, he moved all [...]

By the fifth level of play in the $10K heads-up only a handful of matches continued play.  On one side of the Amazon Room, Cliff “Johnnybax” Josephy (pictured at right) was tangling with European pro Johannes Strassmann while Josephy provided some live action PokerXFactor-style commentary for both his opponent and the crowd on the rail.  [...]

In a matter of minutes the $10K NLHE Heads-Up Championship will be underway.  Registration was capped at 256 players who will be vying for the bracelet.  Players will be starting with 20K in chips with the 20-minute blind levels beginning at 100/200.
In a couple of hours, the final table of the $5K NLHE event will kick off as [...]

It was cold.
With the blinds at 6K/12K and 13 players remaining in the $5K NLHE Event, Anders Henriksson raised to 33K from early position and Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet reraised to 100K, with 200K behind in his stack. Action folded back to Henriksson, who shoved for a total of 229K and Van Fleet quickly called, [...]

It might translate better to a single and a three-base error in baseball terminology, but Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin is pleased with the result regardless. Here’s how the enormous pot in the $5K NLHE Event went down: A player under the gun raised to 24K at 4K/8K blinds and Baldwin (pictured left) shoved in middle position for 170K. Thanhdat Tran then pushed [...]