With his back pressed against a gallery of fans and their clicking digital camera’s, Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert was in the eye of a celebrity frenzy at the Ante Up for Africa Tournament.
Thanks to the presence of Ben Affleck, Wolpert’s table was constantly surrounded by photographers and video cameras capturing the spectacle that follows celebrities.
Although at least fifty percent of players [...]

The $1.5k LHE Shootout has ceased play for the evening. Only 15 of 90 people were eliminated in the first part of the 2nd round. There are still some notable players left in the field including Matt “mattg1983″ Graham, Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke (pictured right), Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith, Ben “bfineman” Fineman, Mike “SirWatts” Watson, Sasha “bikocruz” [...]

Cody “thugmoneymakr” Slaubaugh, as well as the players at his table and spectators in attendance, were floored by a hand that just took place during tonight’s $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event. With the final two tables in action and the blinds at 10K/20K, Slaubaugh raised to 52K from the cutoff and Farzad Rouhani reraised to [...]

The final three players of the $1.5k HORSE tournament have been trading chips back and forth but Phil Hellmuth, who has been short stacked for the past few hours is (somewhat) patiently waiting for good spots to rebuild his stack. We haven’t seen too many of the “typical” Hellmuth tantrums but there have been a [...]

Cody “thugmoneymakr” Slaubaugh eliminated Tim Barchie in 30th place to chip up to over 400K in the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event. With the blinds at 5K/10K, Barchie moved in for nearly 85K from under the gun and action folded around to Slaubaugh (pictured right) in the small blind. Cody contemplated his next move for a moment before moving [...]