After more than 100 hands of heads-up play in the Event #28 $5K Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond has brought down the house, winning $817,781 and the WSOP bracelet. Congratulations, Phil, on the huge win!
Play is over this evening for Event #29, the $3K No-Limit Hold’em tournament as we are down to [...]

Could P5ers named Barry win back-to-back bracelets? Barry Greenstein took down the $1,500 Razz event last night, and now Barry “BarryGS” Schultz (pictured right) is approaching the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em final table for a chance at his own bracelet and $628,417. Schultz is currently third in chips of the 10 players remaining, but you’d never [...]

It’s a beautiful day here at the Rio as Event #31 the $2.5k NLHE six-handed event gets underway. Fast, agressive play seems to be the norm in these short handed events so today should be filled with some fun and exciting action as the field of over 900 (so far) battles it out. There are quite a few [...]

Event #27’s $1.5K No-Limit Hold’em race for the bracelet has concluded for the evening with 18 players remaining in the field. Barry “BarryGS” Schultz sits near the top of the chip count with over 850K, now representing PocketFives in his logo t-shirt.
We caught up with Barry as he was raising preflop from the hijack [...]

The $1.5K No-Limit Hold’em tournament was down to 32 players of its original 2,706 when PocketFives last visited the Brazilia room where play was taking place. Jason Gray (pictured at right)was looking short-stacked with 150K in chips as he was moved to another table to balance play out. Justin “loosh31″ Pechie was [...]