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 play for the day saw the field drop from 24 players down to 18 and the first order of business after the 15 minute break was a redraw for the 18 remaining players. Carter “ckingusc” King was eliminated on the last hand before break, most of the other players already [...]

Twenty minutes into the playdown day and 3 of the 24 that started the day have already been sent to the payout cage. Richard Sciuto was the first to go falling to Carter “ckingusc” King. Carter came into the day as one of the short stacks with only 119k but Sciuto was one [...]

In no limit hold em anything can happen, and it can happen in a hurry.  For Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire the first 4 levels of the day were nothing but smiles, but the fifth level - the one that could easily have not even been played had tournament officials not changed the plan - went miserably [...]