Day 1 at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic is in the books.  Registration is still open for 3 more levels of play which will keep registration open until around 5pm tomorrow.
Zach “CrazyZachary” Clark moved in to pick up a pot late in the day and add to his stack.  On a board [...]

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 [...]

Earlier Alexandre “Allingomes” Gomes took the chip lead with around 100k. Gomes is coming off his recent win at the Bellagio Cup WPT event and his confidence has to be high, but his 100k chip lead has been more than doubled by another player that has had recent success. Steven Begleiter is the [...]

The final numbers at the Bike tallied up to only 279 entrants, almost 100 players short of a year ago and well shy of the field sizes from a few years back.  Last year John Phan defeated a field of 373 players, but this year he and all the other defending Legends of Poker champions [...]

With empty tables on both the near and far side of the new event center at the Bike the less than 300 players that showed up for the Legends of Poker played out the first level of the day, with a decent amount of chips moving around considering the deep stacks and small blinds.  The [...]