UPDATE 2 - And he’s out of there. They ended up laying for about 3 hours, iRock was up by a good amount at the beginning but took a big hit on a later hand and it was downhill from there. He was pretty positive about the whole thing, keep an eye out as I’m sure he’ll post about it when he returns.

UPDATE - iRock has been playing Scotty Nguyen for the last 2.5 hours. I’ll update with the results as soon as I know.

As you may know, iRock is playing in the HU tourney that’s taking place right now at the Rio. He got a bye the first round since tourney organizers screwed up big time by not getting the right number of players to make the tourney work. The solution was to give about 120 players a bye the first round, then have them come back at about 5 and play the second round with the winners of the first round.

As of right now, I haven’t heard how he’s doing. They delayed the start of the second round from 5-6, so he’s probabaly been playing an hour or so.

I’ll update everybody as soon as I find out what’s going on.

Stay tuned!

Thanks to everybody that played! I didn’t win again despite my fantastic selection of vintage Michael Jackson music but don’t worry, Billie Jean and I will be back =).

Here are the results:

1. RiMmtl
2. couchsurfer83
3. fxstone11

Congratulations to all our winners! If you couldn’t make it, we hope that you can make it next time!

Hey all! Make sure to join us this Sat. at 8:00 PM EST for another iRockPoker tournament!

Here are the details:

Date: Sat. June 16th
Time: 8:00 PM EST
Buy-In: $5 + .50
Format: 6 Max NL
Password: irock

See you there!

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