We actually made it through the scheduled five levels on Day 6 as the starting 185 players trimmed down to 64 when the tournament clock hit zero. Unbelievably, more than a quarter of the field is made up of P5ers, including Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp, who is among the chip leaders going into Day 7 with [...]

Day 6 of the Main Event has come to a halt with 1 hour and 24 minutes left in Level 28. The final 27 players will return Monday at 12:00 PT. Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki, Scott “r_a_y” Montgomery and Owen “ocrowe” Crowe will be representing the Pocketfives community and attempt to reach the final “November Nine,” [...]

As Level 27 comes to a close with the blinds at 30K/60K and an ante of 10K, players are really tightening up their games. Though the first two levels of the day saw the field decrease from its starting point of 79 all the way down to 44 remaining, the last two levels have [...]

Peter “number1pen” Neff’s (pictured at right) tournament life ended shortly before the 90-minute dinner break which began at 7:15pm PST. In the hand that knocked him to the rail, the player on the button made it 135K to go preflop. Peter, in the small blind, shoved all-in for his remaining 850K short stack. [...]

Jonathan “therookieqq9″ Plens’ roller-coaster day has come to an end. With blinds at 25K/50K Plens raised to 135K in the cutoff and Anthony Scherer re-raised to 400K from the big blind. Plens moved in for his last 900K and Scherer made the call:
Plens: AK
Scherer: A8
Unfortunately for Plens, Scherer flopped top two pair and Jonathan couldn’t [...]