Event #5 - $1K No-Limit Hold’em w/ Re-buys:
Congratulations to Michael “worldsgrtest” Banducci, who won the bracelet and top prize of $636,736 in an excruciatingly long three-way match against Peter Gould Jeff “yellowsub86″ Williams. Three-handed play continued for such a long time that the rowdy railbirds took to breathalyzing themselves for entertainment. When Banducci [...]

Our Poker Pro Tip of the Day is brought to you by Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich (pictured at right ) who advises, “eat before you play poker”. Rich, who we last reported had 10K in $1.5K short handed event, has busted out of the event and chalks up some of his bad plays to hunger pains. [...]

The final table of the $1K rebuy got underway a little while ago and two players were recently eliminated when the following hand transpired:
With the blinds 8K/16K ante 2K the action folded around to Steve “gboro780″ Gross who moved all-in for 104K.  Jamie “TheChronic420″ Rosen moved all-in behind him for 421K and Jeff “yellowsub86″ Williams (pictured [...]

After 40 hands of heads up play with Justin Bonomo, Erick Lindgren took down the 5K MHE event when he turned a straight vs Bonomo’s two pair.  The two got it all in on the river on a board reading T5348 and Lindgren held A2 to Bonomo’s 45.  In addition to winning his first bracelet, [...]

It’s a little past 3am here at the Rio and the Amazon room is nearly cleared of tournament players. The $10k Mixed event that started at 5pm is done for the night with 2007 WSOP Player of the Year Tom Schneider as the chip leader. Other big stacks include Jeff Madsen, Greg “FBT” Mueller, Gus [...]