At the start of the day Steven Landfish had 383,000 chips and the largest stack in the room.  After only an hour and a half of play there are a handful of stacks over the 400k mark, and Landfish himself has added a large chunk to his stack and is up around the 600k chip [...]

Since the action was stopped last night with 10 minutes on the clock and each table played 6 more hands the same thing was done for the Day 1B flight of players.  The tables have all finished up the last of the 6 hands and the players have their chips bagged and tagged.  Tournament officials [...]

The field has been dropping quickly since the return of the dinner break.  The 5th level of play for the day at the 200 / 400 level has reduced the field down to under 125 players from the 178 that started the day.  Alec “Traheho” Torelli and Mike “Timex” McDonald are among the recently departed, [...]

The first four levels of play for Day 1B at the World Series of Poker Europe are complete, meaning it is time for the 90 minutes dinner break. After spending their dinner break hunting the best fish and chips in town the players will come back to play two more levels to and try [...]

The 150 / 300 level of play at the WSOPE is complete, but players will come back for another 90 minutes of similar blinds with a 25 ante tacked on to up the pot sizes.  After that level is complete the players will then be off to take a 90 minute dinner break before returning [...]