The new trend in World Poker Tour events is the triple buy in starting stack.  The standard had been starting chip stacks of double the buy in, but for season 7 many of the stops are increasing the starting chips by 50%, giving players triple their buy in.
For the North American Poker Championship, a $10,000 [...]

Day 1A at the North American Poker Championship is off and running.  Due to Canadian gaming restrictions (of which there are plenty) the tournament has to be broken up into three starting days to make sure the field size doesn’t go over the allowed limit.
The first of the playing days is off to a slow [...]