After 8 levels and 12 full hours of play time spread over two days the registration at the Festa al Lago WPT event is now all but officially closed. Players have through the end of the 15 minutes break to sign up to play and once the clock starts on level 9 no more [...]

The first level of day 2 is complete and the next order of business at the Festa al Lago World Poker Tour event is to get rid of the green 25 denomination chips.  After the color up play will resume for the 2nd level of the day and the 7th overall level of play.  Late [...]

With 15 minutes left on the clock play was paused and  card was drawn to see how many more hands would be played for the night.  Seven more hands at each table was the magic number and after the completion of the set number of hands the players were done for the night.  Chips were [...]

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 [...]

Since the action was stopped last night with 10 minutes on the clock and each table played 6 more hands the same thing was done for the Day 1B flight of players.  The tables have all finished up the last of the 6 hands and the players have their chips bagged and tagged.  Tournament officials [...]