We spent a good amount of time searching for David “Doc_Sands” Sands (pictured right) after his table broke during the past level in the $2.5K NLHE event. You see, he was sitting on a stack of about 130K when we had last seen him, more than twice the average, so he had to be somewhere [...]

The Jason Mercier Chip Tower located in the Amazon room has just been revamped.
In the $2K NLHE event Mercier was moved to Pat “BigRed0000″ Stemper’s table during the past level and each possessed one of the biggest chip stacks in the room. That didn’t last long.
With the blinds at 1.2K/2.4K Mercier raised to 5.9K from [...]

Over half the players left in the field at the WPT Championship will make the money.  With 90 left and the top 50 making the money there are now more players that will make the money than won’t.  For the 40 that come up short getting close will be no consolation though.

Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (right) [...]

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.  [...]

Taking aces to the flop along with 3 other people usually isn’t ideal.  Doing so with super deep blinds can open a player up to even more trouble if they get married to their hand.  Scott “BigRiskky” Clements called a raise with aces and had two players come in behind him.  That was bad enough, [...]