With just 10 hands left of play for the night in the $40,000 event, Steve “thorladen” Weinstein and Steve Zolotow got  it all in on a flop of A43. Weinstein’s AA had Zolotow’s AQ nearly dead, and the 5 on the turn and 9 on the river sealed the deal for King Thor, who finished [...]

Scott “gunning4you” Seiver was involved in another hand with one of poker’s biggest names at one of the stacked field’s most-stacked tables. Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis recently jointed Seiver at a table with Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, David Pham, Phil Hellmuth and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier.
Seiver and Ivey played a hand just before the players headed to dinner [...]

With most of the players already on their 30 minute break, those still hanging around in the Amazon Room surrounded Table 74 as Christian “charder30″ Harder (pictured left) was involved in a hand with Jason Rosenkrantz. With blinds at 300/600/75, Harder raised in late position and Rosenkrantz reraised to 6K out of the blinds. Harder made the call [...]

Over half the players left in the field at the WPT Championship will make the money.  With 90 left and the top 50 making the money there are now more players that will make the money than won’t.  For the 40 that come up short getting close will be no consolation though.

Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (right) [...]

The start of day 3 at the World Poker Tour Championship has seen a lot of 3, 4 and 5 betting preflop.  162 players made it to the start of day 3, and as the action continues on deeper and deeper into the tournament the size of pots and intensity over each hand is increasing.  [...]