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 [...]

For Brian “tsarrast” Rast things looked really good for a few moments and then came to a screeching halt.  Rast doubled through Harder to get off the short stack and then had Justin Young (left) all in with pocket queens against Young’s pocket nines.  A nine hit the flop to give Young a set but [...]

Ran Azor showed his willingness to fold big hands earlier when he tossed pocket kings preflop, but when Eugene Katchalov moved in for 1,185,000 he made the call with the AK and was ahead of Katcholov’s J7 and stayed that way on the Q-T-5-J-3 board.  Eugene made a pair on the turn, but the jack [...]

The final 10 players at the WPT Championship stayed intact after almost 3 hours of play before the first elimination.  The most interesting happening up until Bruno Fitoussi’s bustout came when Ran Azor folded pocket kings face up to Christian “charder” Harder preflop.  Harder had opened for 225k and Azor raised to 675k with about [...]