The draw for number of remaining hands pulled out a five and each of the 12 remaining tables in the Festa al Lago tournament had to play out five more hands before finishing for the night. After completing the set amount of hands the players are off until play picks back up tomorrow at [...]

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” [...]

After 8 levels and 12 full hours of play time spread over two days the registration at the Festa al Lago WPT event is now all but officially closed. Players have through the end of the 15 minutes break to sign up to play and once the clock starts on level 9 no more [...]

Yesterday Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke, who is not playing the event, estimated that around half of the field would be eliminated by the time registration closed at the end of the 8th level of play.  Seven levels are now in the books and with the total entrant number currently at 270 and the remaining player count [...]