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 [...]

Earlier in the day we noted that the Bellagio has been forced to use the poker room as overflow when the Fontana Lounge is full, but that didn’t seem likely for today. Well, with the late registrants continuing to file in throughout the day and the single table satellites already taking up some space [...]

Around 75 players of the original 279 have made it through the first two day and 10 levels of play at the Legends of Poker WPT event. The top 27 get paid, and play will continue tomorrow until the money is reached. Isaac “mr. menlo” Baron was among the late day elimination and [...]

Event #35 finished the evening with eleven runners still vying for a WSOP gold bracelet.
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi (pictured left) ended the night as the chip leader with 970K after winning the last pot of the night on his table. There was almost 100K in the pot, but the dealer washed the cards before we could [...]

We reported earlier that Isaac “Mr. Menlo” Baron, Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy (pictured left) and Mike “SirWatts” Watson were all seated at the same table in Event #35 $5K PLO. Well Watts has moved to an adjacent table, but the three remaining P5ers have proceeded to steamroll the rest of the table.
With 28 [...]