Three handed play has tightened up as the chip counts a have fallen into a relative 3-way tie.  John Juanda went on a rush of cards and aggression to take the chip lead from Stanislav Alekhin before doubling up Ivan Demidov and bringing the chip counts all back to nuetral. 
Juanda had a shot at eliminating Demidov and [...]

The domination of Stanislav Alekhin continues.  Bengt Sonnert has now been added to the growing list of players put down by Alekhin.  Sonnert’s elimination leaves only John Juanda and Ivan Demidov to contend with Alekhin and his massive chip lead.
Alekhin had raised to 70k and Sonnert (left) moved in for a total of 311k.  Stanislav called [...]

After hanging on with his short stack for as long as he could, the card dead Daniel Negreanu finally got it all in and was going to either double up or go home.  Stanislav Alekhin has been playing the role of assassin here in London, and when it was folded to him in the small blind [...]

In the play right after the dinner break a short stacked Daniel Negreanu (left) is fighting to hang on in the World Series of Poker Europe Mian Event.  Daniel is working in the 12-15 big blind range, meaning he has to be willing to get it in and that one misstep or unfortunate turn of a [...]

Actually, they are already here.  And at the rate they are going they will be the only ones left before long.  Ivan Demidov and Stanislav Alekhin are atop the chip counts, and the 4 eliminations today have all came at the hands of the Russians.  Scott “emptyseat88″ Fischman (right), Toni Hiltunen and Robin Keston have all [...]