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 [...]

Day 4 play finished up with just 24 players left and those select few are all back at the table in preparation for day 5 action.  The schedule for today is the normal 5 levels or down to 10 players, whichever comes first.  If Eugene Katchalov brings his hot hand from yesterday back to the [...]

As play wound down on the fourth day of play at the WPT Championship the number of players left in the tournament continued to drop at a steady pace.  Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis (pictured below left) had been near the top of the chip counts for most of the tournament, but 2 big pots took him [...]

In December of 2007 Eugene Katchalov ran over the final table of the Doyle Brunson Poker Classic, absolutely destroying everyone else at the final table and getting to the title as quickly and easily as anyone could remember.  Day 4 of the WPT Championship is looking like more of the same for Katchalov.  He has [...]

In a flurry of eliminations after reaching the money the field quickly dropped from 50 players all the way down to 36.  At this stage of the tournament there is a complete redraw every time a table is broken and after drawing for new seats the final 36 are now spread across only 4 tables.
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