A quick start in a poker tournament is always nice, but often it doesn’t mean much.  Day 1 chip leaders rarely go on to win a tournament, or even make the final table.  So if a day ending chip lead means relatively little a lead during the first level of a tournament is worth even [...]

The day started with each player having 30,000 in their starting stack and the first blind level was 50 / 100.  The deep stacks and low blinds didn’t prevent chips from flying around in the first 90 minute level of play though.  Christian “charder” Harder took a hit early but was able to recover at [...]

Christian “da_professional” Iacobellis picked up a nice double up when a player raised from under the gun to 750 with the blinds at 150/300. It folded around to Christian in the big blind and he called. The flop came down J32 and Iacobellis checked to his opponent who bet 1,225. Iacobellis [...]

We missed the preflop action but heard the commotion over at Chris “moorman1″ Moorman’s table and scurried right over.  What we saw was a massive pile of chips in the middle of the table and two players all-in.  It was on Chris to act and he appeared to have quite a decision to make about [...]

Maybe it is the lengthy break or the early dinner hour, but so far Level Three play has been laid back and, for lack of a better word, a little lethargic. Some players, like Kevin “kice32″ Iacafano and Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski, even rolled in to the Amazon Room a little late. Sluzinski told [...]