Level 8 has seen quite a bit of chip movement and several players have been moving up, down and out of the chip counts. Noah “fouruhaters” Schwartz (pictured left) belongs in the “moving up” category thanks to Keith “DaMurdera3” Ferrera. The two were part of a tough table line-up that included Schwartz, Ferrera, [...]

Yesterday Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke, who is not playing the event, estimated that around half of the field would be eliminated by the time registration closed at the end of the 8th level of play.  Seven levels are now in the books and with the total entrant number currently at 270 and the remaining player count [...]

Recent WPT Champion Alexandre “Allingomes” Gomes has been eliminated from the tourney, but there are still WPT champions left in the field.  Allen “AawwNutz” Carter (pictured) is one of the WPT title holders that still has a shot here at the Legends of Poker.  Carter was recently all in for 18,775 on top of the [...]

The day 1A players have gone on their first 20-minute break of the day here at the Rio. They will play the next two-hour level with the blinds at 100/200 then take their dinner break because there will only be four levels played today.
Tournament director Jack Effel informed is that there are close to 1,100 [...]

Players started today with 30K in chips and blinds at 50/100 which means there is a ton of play early on. Despite the relatively small blinds compared to the starting stack, several players got involved in big pots early on in Level One.
Within five minutes of walking into the Brasilia room to [...]