A seventh place finish on the World Poker Tour is one of the more brutal bubbles in tournament poker. The pay jump from 7th to 6th is usually significant, but for many of those that play major tournament poker the exposure of a TV table is something that is desired on a personal level [...]

The final 10 (pictured) sat with a full table for a while, but once the blinds made it to 30k / 60k and a 5k ante the action picked up and there were three eliminations during the last level bringing the field down to 7 players and one from making the televised final table of [...]

The chip lead that Jason “StatusUp” Lavallee built during yeesterday’s play is a thing of the past. The second level of play today saw the chip counts balance out as the big stacks doubled up the little stacks and lost smaller pots that didn’t go to all in showdowns.
Aaron “aejones” Jones (right) had an [...]

The three shortest stacks to start the day were all able to win all in hands to survive in the early going on the playdown day and Larry Berg (right) ended up being the 11th place finisher in brutal fashion when he was all in with QJ offsuit against the QJ of Tommy Vedes. [...]