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 eliminations had been coming along at a steady rate, but the field stalled out with 116 players left, only 16 away from being in the money.  Scott “BigRiskky” Clements, Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks, and Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi were all among the players that were busted out of the tournament short of the money on day [...]

The World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair, ended up with a total of 362 entrants.  Of that number only a few over 100 remain and the number is falling like prices at Wal-Mart.  The folks over at ESPN couldn’t be happier so far, with Daniel Negreanu finishing as the day 1 chip leader [...]

Andy “tufat23″ Teng went through the gamut of emotions on the hand that ultimately ended his run on Day 5 of the Main Event. With blinds at 8K/16K/2K, Shawn Sheikhan opened and another opponent reraised to 150k. Teng (pictured left) reraised to 400k, a move tantamount to moving all-in with about 500k behind. Sheikhan folded and [...]

The final three players of the $1.5k HORSE tournament have been trading chips back and forth but Phil Hellmuth, who has been short stacked for the past few hours is (somewhat) patiently waiting for good spots to rebuild his stack. We haven’t seen too many of the “typical” Hellmuth tantrums but there have been a [...]