The blinds had just been raised to 1K/2K in Event #30 $2.5K PLO when Daniel Studer raised to 6K from under the gun. Darryll “DFish” Fish (pictured right) was next to act, and went deep into the tank. Fish counted out twenty yellow 1K chips in stacks of five. He shuffled them into two stacks [...]

The start of day 3 at the World Poker Tour Championship has seen a lot of 3, 4 and 5 betting preflop.  162 players made it to the start of day 3, and as the action continues on deeper and deeper into the tournament the size of pots and intensity over each hand is increasing.  [...]

With the deep starting stacks it is taking big hands in the early levels to bring about the larger pots.  Andy Bloch picked up a huge pot in the first level when he made a straight flush.  The other player got away from his hand, but was left with less than 20k and on major [...]

After Tim “Tmay420″ West was eliminated to start the day the rest of the first level of play saw a full handful of players join him. Andy Bloch was the next out, finishing in 23rd with Perttu Bergius and Mel Judah being the next to go. As the level wore on Andre Torsvik [...]

The action in the first level of many deep stacked, big buy in tournaments in slow. So far the World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair, has not been a slow starting main event. There have been plenty of chips moving around and large pots, even a few bustouts.
Players start the tournament [...]