With the blinds at 150/300 during the last level of the Main Event Day 1B, Nathan “darkcheck_” Tuthill (pictured left) made a re-raise to 2.4K from the small blind and the player on the button called. The flop was QT3. Tuthill bet 3.2K and the button called. The turn was the 3. Tuthill checked, the [...]

In the past hour, players holding a wired pair of sevens have taken big pots off of P5ers.
Joep “Pappe_Ruk” van den Bijgaart (pictured left) ran into sevens on Table 34. The board read AA573 and an opponent led out for about 4.5K. Joep tossed an orange 5K chip in the middle and his opponent tabled [...]

More than half of today’s returning players from the $1.5K NLHE event have already been eliminated and it’s really no wonder. We caught several big hands during the past hour and it seems many players (especially amateurs) are playing too fast for their own good.
Darryll “DFish” Fish, who began the day second in chips, has added [...]

It is that time of night where players are trying to double up or get out in the $1.5K NLHE event. Aditya “intervention” Agarwal was sitting at nearly twice the average stack, but the following hand helped shoot him up to 57K and put him in great shape to keep moving forward in the tournament:
With [...]

There are just a few tables throughout the Amazon and Brasilia rooms where Round One tables of the $1.5K NLHE Shootout event are taking place. We watched as several P5ers either flourished or floundered in their heads-up match.  Here are some of the big hands from the past hour of play:
Play had been relatively mild [...]