In the first 8 hands at the final table of the WPT Championship Shannon Shorr (right) was all in 4 times, each time picking up the pot without getting called.  Shorr started the day as the shortstack with 1,130,000 but his aggressive play early allowed him to pick up a lot of blinds and antes, [...]

For Brian “tsarrast” Rast things looked really good for a few moments and then came to a screeching halt.  Rast doubled through Harder to get off the short stack and then had Justin Young (left) all in with pocket queens against Young’s pocket nines.  A nine hit the flop to give Young a set but [...]

Ran Azor showed his willingness to fold big hands earlier when he tossed pocket kings preflop, but when Eugene Katchalov moved in for 1,185,000 he made the call with the AK and was ahead of Katcholov’s J7 and stayed that way on the Q-T-5-J-3 board.  Eugene made a pair on the turn, but the jack [...]

The final 10 players at the WPT Championship stayed intact after almost 3 hours of play before the first elimination.  The most interesting happening up until Bruno Fitoussi’s bustout came when Ran Azor folded pocket kings face up to Christian “charder” Harder preflop.  Harder had opened for 225k and Azor raised to 675k with about [...]