Tables are breaking in the Amazon Room, and the remaining participants in the 2K event are being dispersed throughout the room.
We found bracelet-winner Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier (pictured at at left) sitting next to Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka on one table. They are both very comfortable, sitting with 72K and 55K respectively. Also accounted for are Steve [...]

Champions will be crowned this evening in the $1,000 No Limit Hold ‘em “Stimulus”, $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud and $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha events.
P5ers make up almost half of the PLO final table. Kevin “kice32″ Iacofano takes the chip lead into the homestrech, boasting a total of 770,000, and will be joined by [...]

The first of nine $1,500 No Limit Hold’ em events at the World Series of Poker has kicked off here at the Rio. Close to 2,800 players have already registered, with more expected during the first two levels of play.
P5er Grant “drossxyu” Hinkle (pictured at right) won this event last year, taking home $831,462 and his [...]

After two hours of heads-up play in Event #7, Shannon Shorr (pictured at left) couldn’t catch Matt Keikoan, who won the WSOP bracelet for the event and a grand prize of $550,601. Shorr won $349,141 for his second-place finish after 67 presumably card-dead hands of Keikoan slowly chipping away at his stack. [...]

With 3 players left in the $2k NLHE tourney, Carter Gill raised to 170k and both Matt Keikoan and Shannon Shorr called. The flop came KQ4. Keikoan bet 100k and Shorr called, creating a side pot after Gill threw in his last 12k. The turn was the 2 and Keikoan bet out 350k, prompting Shorr to fold. Keikoan took the side pot and he and Gill went [...]