It took a few hours, but the final 9 that came back from dinner have been thinned to the final 6.  The shortstacked Farzad Bonyadi was the first to go, falling when he ran into Thao Le’s straight.  Bonyadi ended up in 9th place for $60,000.  It took a while for the next elimination, but [...]

After the elimination of Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar in 16th there was no slowdown and players kept falling off.  By the time the dinner break was reached only 9 remain.  They will return to fight it out for the 6 seats at the televised World Poker Tour final table, with 3 of the 9 coming up [...]

The swings for Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar (left) have been pretty drastic, up and down throughout the tournament.  He dropped to below 50k early in the day today but was on an upswing after eliminating Vitaly Yarkov when his pocket aces held up against Yarkov’s pocket eights.  The two were close in chips, both having around [...]

The first hour of play went relatively well for Joe Sebok, Tyler “Brainwash” Cornell, Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson and Mohsin “ChicagoCards1″ Charania but in the next 60 minutes of play the wheels fell off.  Farzad Bonyadi did more than his share of the damage and now has over 1 million chips as a result.  Play has [...]