After just two levels of play on the third day of play at the WPT Championship the field is down to only 124 players.  Shaun Deeb, Mohsin “ChicagoCards1″ Charania, Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar, Matt “Mattg1983″ Graham, Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmeir, Aaron Been and Howard Lederer are among the recently fallen.
Rajkumar (left) lost a big pot with pocket [...]

There are 25 players in the field today designated as Shooting Stars, each carrying a $5k bounty on their head that will go to the player that eliminates them from the tournament.  In the first few levels of the day each of the Shooting Star players is introduced with a rundown of their poker accomplishments.  [...]

After a slow and grinding level of 5 handed play the action has dropped to 3 handed all in  one deal of the cards.  Justin Young (left) was able to eliminate both the short stack Amnon Filippi and Steve Sung who started the day as the chip leader.  All the chips went in preflop, with [...]

Justin Young, Amnon Filippi and Hoyt Corkins were all piled up at the bottom of the chip counts with around 2 million each, but the three have now went in different directions.  Justin Young was able to get a big double up through Chino Rheem after he flopped top two pair on an A-5-2 rainbow [...]

The Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio is down to the final 6 players who are back today to play down to a champion on the World Poker Tour stage.  The interviews and introductions were the first order of business and then after that play commenced and the final 6 have [...]