Over an hour after returning from the dinner break it took almost an hour and a half and a full level of play before the first elimination.  Gavin Smith was able to bust Dominic Staniscia in 9th place.  With the blinds at 12k / 24k Gavin limped from late position and Marc “Myst” Karam called [...]

The decision was made to send the remaining 9 players on dinner break at the completion of the last level. With 3 more eliminations needed to end the day things could be over in just a few minutes or it could go late into the night. In preparation for a worst case scenario [...]

With the elimination of Erik Seidel (right) in 10th place the field is now down to only one remaining table. The final 9 players are now fighting it out for the six coveted seats at the North American Poker Championship televised final table.
Seidel was all in with pocket queens against Marc “Myst” Karam’s AK. [...]

It wasn’t too long ago that Ryan “Gotskillz” Fisler was all in for his last 290k chips. Now he has jumped to the top of the chip counts and has almost 2 million chips as play nears the final table.
Fisler (left) was all in again, and in worse shape, with his AT up against [...]

After the first level of play on day 3 at the North American Poker Championship the most recent World Poker Tour champion has taken a commanding chip lead. Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar is now over 700k in chips and talks of back to back titles are starting to float around. That may be a little [...]