The draw for number of remaining hands pulled out a five and each of the 12 remaining tables in the Festa al Lago tournament had to play out five more hands before finishing for the night. After completing the set amount of hands the players are off until play picks back up tomorrow at [...]

With over 400k chips Steve “gboro780″ Gross (right) has taken the lead in the Festa al Lago WPT Championship.  The average stack is around 135k with 120 of the 275 players still in.  Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy has made a nice comeback from his low of 19k but other players have fallen by the wayside.
Christian “charder” [...]

Day 1 play at the Festa al Lago is off and running.  A current field of around 150 players are  at their seats to start the event and players seem inclined to continue to trickle in with no hurry.  The buy in for the event is $15,000 and the starting chip stack is 60,000.  With [...]

Andy “BKiCe” Seth and Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll (pictured at left) are seated right next to each other in the $3K NLHE Triple Chance event, and they’ve clashed a few times as of late.
On a flop of Q95, Seth led out for 7.7K and Carroll called. The turn was the 9 and both players checked. [...]