Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant (pictured right) has been on a tear the past hour and, as a result, his chip stack has soared up to 36K–more than three times average.  First, we caught Vinsant in a hand where he raised to 750 preflop with the blinds at 150/300 and another player called from the small blind.  [...]

After making the great call to win the last hand of the fourth level of the day things turned south for Phil “USCPhildo”Collins.  His nearly 600k chip stack to start the 4th level of the day was down to the felt in less than an hour of play at the 3k / 6k blind level.  [...]

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.  [...]

With the deep stacks players are often tentative to get themselves overly involved in pots that could blossom out of control.  Even large hands are being played relatively slowly but some chips have been moving across the tables.  Sets and flushes are still big hands and players want to get some value out of their [...]