The first level of day 3 play at the Festa al Lago saw a lot of pots with all the chips in the middle and cards still to come. For David “DavidP18″ Peters (right), Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo and Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson the first level of the day was the last level of their tournament. [...]

Players started the tournament with 600 big blinds.  By the end of the first level only Soheil Shamseddin had managed to get rid of all his chips.  The next level cut the average stack from 600 big blinds down to 300 big blinds as the cost of playing went up to 100 / 200, still [...]

Joe Sebok has been battling the nasty cold that has circulated its way around the Rio the past week or so. After starting the day with 120K he dropped as low as 30K and was feeling pretty terrible to boot. Apparently a little rest and some food can work wonders for a guy though, [...]

After play had ended for the night in the $5K NLHE six-max event, we walked up to David “DavidP18″ Peters (pictured at left) and asked whether or not we had been correct to report that he had been under 5K at one point. He affirmed that we were correct an that just a few hours [...]

Jason “TheMasterJ33″ DeWitt (pictured right) found himself heads up with Jorg Peisert in Event #52, but the match didn’t last more than a few hands.
On the final hand Peisert opened to 180K and DeWitt shipped his 600K stack in the middle. Jorg called with 99 which was ahead of Jason’s K4. DeWitt’s hand did not [...]