Another day at the Festa al Lago World Poker Tour event is in the books. The last level of play saw a drastic reduction in the pace of eliminations with Steve Brecher being the only person to fall out of the tournament during the last hour and a half of play. Brecher finished [...]

Another level and another 6 players down in the Festa al Lago. One more level is scheduled for the day but with only 12 players remaining the day could end a little early if 2 players bust before the 90 minute level is complete. Jason “StatusUp” Lavallee stayed hot and sent a few [...]

After getting into the money the next hour and a half of action saw plenty of all ins and plenty of bustouts. By the end of the 18th level of play, and third level for today, only 18 players were left in the Festa al Lago WPT tournament. Play for today will continue [...]

The early chiplead in a turnout doesn’t always correspond to success later in the event. For Jason “JCarver” Somerville his chip leading stack earlier in the tournament only carried him to the money bubble where he ended up busting in 29th place, only two spots away from making it into the money. Somerville [...]

Early in the tournament Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy (right) was down below 20k chips, but got lucky in a hand to double up and went on to build his stack back to a reasonable amount and work his way all the way into the fourth day of play. He had fallen back among the short [...]