The final 36 players at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic are taking their seats and getting ready to shuffle up and deal. Nine of these players will walk home empty-handed, but the final 27 are all guaranteed a minimum payout of $28,569. Today play will continue for five levels or [...]

People start to get a little loopy at the end of a tournament day and today was no exception. The table on the main stage featuring Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire (pictured left), Darryll “DFish” Fish, Sam “KingKobeMVP” Stein and Carter “ckingusc” King decided to supplement their tournament action with a little propbetting. Were [...]

Registration is finally closed and the numbers are in. We have 329 runners, 151 of which are still in with one more level to go before the end of the day. Perhaps people are looking to get it all-in and head to an early dinner, as we’ve reached that time when everyone seems [...]

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, [...]

Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar was one of the tournament’s late arrivals who did not show up to play until Day 2.
“It’s not because I am a degen though, “Rajkumar explained. He had some family obligations to take care of yesterday, so he waited until today to get over to the Bellagio and play. The [...]