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 [...]

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 [...]

Day 1 play at the Festa al Lago is off and running.  A current field of around 150 players are  at their seats to start the event and players seem inclined to continue to trickle in with no hurry.  The buy in for the event is $15,000 and the starting chip stack is 60,000.  With [...]

For those vying for that ever elusive WSOP bracelet, the 2.5k 2-7 triple draw WSOP Event #40 offers a rare opportunity to capture WSOP hardware in a field with just over 200 players, a far cry from the 2,700 players that entered yesterday’s 1.5k NL tournament.
Only a smattering of online players arose for the noon tournament, including [...]