The first level of day 2 is complete and the next order of business at the Festa al Lago World Poker Tour event is to get rid of the green 25 denomination chips.  After the color up play will resume for the 2nd level of the day and the 7th overall level of play.  Late [...]

With 15 minutes left on the clock play was paused and  card was drawn to see how many more hands would be played for the night.  Seven more hands at each table was the magic number and after the completion of the set number of hands the players were done for the night.  Chips were [...]

Maybe it is the lengthy break or the early dinner hour, but so far Level Three play has been laid back and, for lack of a better word, a little lethargic. Some players, like Kevin “kice32″ Iacafano and Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski, even rolled in to the Amazon Room a little late. Sluzinski told [...]

Six-handed No Limit Hold ‘em events can always be counted on for entertainment — especially when you’ve got a field loaded with talent like today’s $5K restart, which had 49 P5ers returning with their eyes set on a $1 million first prize. The poker warfare began right from the get-go:
Steve “thorladen” Weinstein, who began the [...]

With just 10 hands left of play for the night in the $40,000 event, Steve “thorladen” Weinstein and Steve Zolotow got  it all in on a flop of A43. Weinstein’s AA had Zolotow’s AQ nearly dead, and the 5 on the turn and 9 on the river sealed the deal for King Thor, who finished [...]