With 15 minutes left on the clock play was paused and  card was drawn to see how many more hands would be played for the night.  Seven more hands at each table was the magic number and after the completion of the set number of hands the players were done for the night.  Chips were [...]

Earlier in the day we noted that the Bellagio has been forced to use the poker room as overflow when the Fontana Lounge is full, but that didn’t seem likely for today. Well, with the late registrants continuing to file in throughout the day and the single table satellites already taking up some space [...]

Three of the five levels on the schedule for day 1 at the Festa al Lago are in the books. So far 237 players have paid the $15k entry fee and have chips in play in the tournament, minus the handful of eliminations. The blinds for the fourth level of play will be [...]

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 [...]

Even with the 60k starting stacks it took less than a level before tournament director Jack McClelland was announcing that the pressure was off and telling the field they no longer had to worry about being the first eliminated.  Though one player managed to get rid of his 60k starting stacks a large portion of [...]