Table 41 in the Fontana Lounge has a very interesting cast of players. Ivan Demidov and Dennis Phillips were both members of the November 9, the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event. They are both at the table which is worthy of notice in itself. Roy Winston was [...]

As heads up play goes on, the trend so far has been for John Juanda to chip away and then for Stanislav Alekhin to get a big double up.  Juanda started the heads up play with a decent chip lead and was able to add to it until he had enough to take a shot at [...]

The buzz around Ivan Demidov in the last 48 hours has been tremendous.  Ever since it became likely he would make the final table at the World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair, people have been talking about the amazing, historical (poker history at least) accomplishment of making both WSOP Main Event final tables [...]

As the night wears on the crowd has that was overflowing has started to fall off a little bit.  In the section of seating just in front of the media are one group broke out their own deck of cards to play a few hands while keeping the corner of their eye on the final [...]

Three handed play has tightened up as the chip counts a have fallen into a relative 3-way tie.  John Juanda went on a rush of cards and aggression to take the chip lead from Stanislav Alekhin before doubling up Ivan Demidov and bringing the chip counts all back to nuetral. 
Juanda had a shot at eliminating Demidov and [...]