The money bubble at the WPT Championship was for a hefty $32k but the bubble itself was pretty uneventful.  Usually play goes hand for hand one away from the money, but with two players busting at the same time there was no need for hand for hand play and the final 50 were in the [...]

Over half the players left in the field at the WPT Championship will make the money.  With 90 left and the top 50 making the money there are now more players that will make the money than won’t.  For the 40 that come up short getting close will be no consolation though.

Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (right) [...]

The start of day 3 at the World Poker Tour Championship has seen a lot of 3, 4 and 5 betting preflop.  162 players made it to the start of day 3, and as the action continues on deeper and deeper into the tournament the size of pots and intensity over each hand is increasing.  [...]

The final 63 players that came back for day 4 action are all guaranteed to be in the money, with the last hand of play yesterday bursting the money bubble.  Many of the 63 that made it through the day were left with very short stacks though, and the first hour of play today has [...]

Once play got down to 69 players the action slowed and it looked like things would stall out and the day would end before making it to the money.  Then a flurry of bustouts came all at once, with Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke, Antonio Esfandiari, and Yevginey “Atimos” Timoshenko all falling out in the upper mid [...]