After a long night of bagging chips and inputting counts into the computer, the final numbers on day 1 play at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Challenge are out. 376 players out of the original 496 made it to day 2 play, with Paul Niemela holding a considerable chip lead over second [...]

After a draw to see how many more hands will be played, each table will play out that set number of hands and then be done for the day. The Bellagio does this to prevent stalling at the end of the day. With somewhere around 20 minutes left in the day they draw [...]

As play works well into the 4th level of the day and the blinds have increased to 200 / 400 with a 50 ante there has been enough time for chips to move around the room and for players to start building stacks, and for others to see their chip counts diminish or be eliminated [...]

The final number of players for the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic came in at 497 players. Most of the players for today are still in the tournament, but there have been a few eliminations including Matt “Mattg1983″ Graham. Matt won’t leave the Five Diamond series at the Bellagio too disappointed [...]