The final 98 players are back at the tables for the third day of play at the Festa al Lago $15,000 buy in World Poker Tour event. Jason “JCarver” Somerville comes in riding a cloud and will started the day behind a massive pile of chips worth 557,000 making him the chip leader coming [...]

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 [...]