Play for day 1C at the North American Poker Championship is complete. End of day chip counts and details forthcoming. Darus Suharto, of November Nine fame, is trying to keep up with Ivan Demidov. Demidov, also a November Niner, made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker Europe [...]

John Juanda and Glen “Choron” Chorny have between them the two biggest poker titles from Europe over the last year. Juanda recently took over from Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad as the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Champion and Chorny is the reigning victor of the European Poker Tour Grand Finale in Monte Carlo. [...]

The 30k starting stack, with no chips larger than 1k in play, means a lot of chips are in action from the get go, with every player having around 2 full stacks of chips to start play. As some players have busted and chips have moved around the room, a lot of large stacks [...]

A little nervous, a little excited, a little intimidated. Probably all 3. Having fun. Definitely. You can see it in the smile he can’t hide on his face. Daniel “poncholoco” Youngblood (left) is playing in his first ever major live tournament. This $10k buy in is somewhere in the [...]