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, [...]

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” [...]

The first level of day 2 is complete and the next order of business at the Festa al Lago World Poker Tour event is to get rid of the green 25 denomination chips.  After the color up play will resume for the 2nd level of the day and the 7th overall level of play.  Late [...]

The 4k / 8k 1k ante level kicked up the pace of action, with 5 eliminations coming in the 60 minutes of play at that level with a few more almost eliminations.  Men Nguyen was all in twice in the span of three hands but was able to double through Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier twice to [...]

The first level of the day at 3k / 6k with a 500 ante is in the books, along with the first four in the money eliminations.  No longer contending for the title are David Docherty (36th), Dave “DevilFish” Ulliott (35th), Oyvind Riisem (34th) and Mike Fosco (33rd).  Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier was able to send [...]