Earlier Alexandre “Allingomes” Gomes took the chip lead with around 100k. Gomes is coming off his recent win at the Bellagio Cup WPT event and his confidence has to be high, but his 100k chip lead has been more than doubled by another player that has had recent success. Steven Begleiter is the [...]

With the blinds at 100/200 with a 25-chip ante, Adam “REpeattillRich” Johnson and two other players saw a flop of T93 and they all checked. The turn was the J. The first player to act checked and Johnson bet 600. Seat three folded and the other player raised. Adam moved all in quickly and the [...]

Both Daniel “amichaikkâ€� Makowsky and Eric ”whitE_mAmbA” Ladny, (pictured at left) who had been the chipleader for much of the final table in the $2K NLHE event, have been eliminated from the event.
A short-stacked Makowsky was eliminated in sixth place. His pocket threes fell to an opponent’s A-K when a king came on the flop.
Ladny’s road [...]

It didn’t take long for Amit “Amak316″ Makhija to get back to the chip lead. The very next hand after doubling up John Phan he was able to retake the chip lead and also put himself into heads up play with John Phan.
The chips that pushed Amit to the chip lead came at the [...]

After holding the chip lead for all of the late stage of the tourney, one double up took Amit “Amak316″ Makhija out of the top spot and put John Phan (right) there. Amit had opened the pot for 300k and John Phan moved all in for around 2.4 million. Makhija called with pocket [...]