Freddy Deeb (right) was one card away from taking a significant chip lead and making the Festa al Lago WPT final table a 3-handed event. Freddy had opened for 400k and Tommy Vedes raised to 1.25 million. Freddy checked to see what Tommy had left and then announced he was all in. [...]

The playdown day didn’t go exactly as Jason “StatusUp” Lavallee (right) would have liked. He came into the day with over 4 million chips and the lead in the tournament but by the time the field was down to the final 6 Lavallee had dropped back to 2 million and went into the final [...]

The stage is set for the final table at the Festa al Lago World Poker Tour event. The 275 entrants have been whittled down to the final 6 and all the preliminary activities that go along with a televised final table are about wrapped up, leaving just the poker to determine the champion.
Freddy Deeb [...]

A seventh place finish on the World Poker Tour is one of the more brutal bubbles in tournament poker. The pay jump from 7th to 6th is usually significant, but for many of those that play major tournament poker the exposure of a TV table is something that is desired on a personal level [...]