After 8 levels and 12 full hours of play time spread over two days the registration at the Festa al Lago WPT event is now all but officially closed. Players have through the end of the 15 minutes break to sign up to play and once the clock starts on level 9 no more [...]

After a slow start the pace has picked up and another handful of players have been sent to the payout cage.  The field has dropped to only 21 players remaining after the most recent elimination of Liz Lieu in 22nd place.  Before Lieu was sent to the rail five other players had been eliminated since [...]

The 4k / 8k 1k ante level kicked up the pace of action, with 5 eliminations coming in the 60 minutes of play at that level with a few more almost eliminations.  Men Nguyen was all in twice in the span of three hands but was able to double through Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier twice to [...]

The first level of the day at 3k / 6k with a 500 ante is in the books, along with the first four in the money eliminations.  No longer contending for the title are David Docherty (36th), Dave “DevilFish” Ulliott (35th), Oyvind Riisem (34th) and Mike Fosco (33rd).  Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier was able to send [...]