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11:16pm: Night night The clock has ticked down to zero and the chip are falling in the bags. We'll have a wrap up and chip counts in a bit. 10:53: Say hello to your new chip leader Amidst the carnage that followed the bubble, Jimmie Guinther has emerged as the...more

3:45pm: Players on break Level 11 has come to a close. Players are off to break. We'll be closing out this update post and starting a new one on the homepage in a matter of minutes. 3.30pm: Middleton back at the top Tom Middleton is back in charge of this...more

3:45pm: Players on break Level 11 has come to a close. Players are off to break. We'll be closing out this update post and starting a new one on the homepage in a matter of minutes. 3.30pm: Middleton back at the top Tom Middleton is back in charge of this...more

This morning, the breakfast buffet at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, served cantaloupe and pineapple in chunks, rather than the slices it had offered on the previous two days. It's a largely irrelevant observation, banal even, but it allows us to say that today's poker (much like that cantaloupe...more

There's a reason people live here. A reason that nearly ten million souls crowd the freeways, boulevards, and hillsides of Los Angeles County. Some come seeking stardom, others chasing a different sort of California dream. They breathe in the smog, fight the traffic, pay $7 for valet parking, brace themselves...more

11:12pm: Day 1B complete Day 1B is now over. We're nailing down the chip leaders right now and will have a full wrap-up in just a bit. 10:39pm: Negreanu has heart With a limp in front of him, Daniel Negreanu made it 3,700 to play. He got calls in both...more

5:27: Break time Players are on a 15-minute break. We'll be closing out this post and moving on to a fresh one to start Level 5. You'll find that on the top of the home page in just a few minutes. 5:20pm: Too Little too late Markus Gonsalves opened...more

The people who have done this kind of tournament directing before have a mental barometer for how these tournaments work. Said barometers are now pointing toward "bigger," as in, bigger than yesterday, bigger than the last tournament, bigger than expected. Oh, there are good reasons for it. Today is Saturday,...more

11.20pm: Done Day 1A of NAPT Los Angeles is over. Nicholas Gripo is the chip leader with 235,100, marginally ahead of Thomas Middleton, whose quads in the last few hands took a huge chunk out of Matt Woodward. 11:10pm: Middleton's quads decimate Woodward We only saw this one on the...more

It's a well-worn story that has the starry-eyed optimist make his or her way across the western United States to a city that can turn simple copywriters into the world's biggest stars. It is, too, a long-told tale that has those hopefuls doing little more than turning into the city's...more

5.30pm: Level done That's the end of level four, and players are heading away for a 15 minute break. 5.15pm: Annette tackles the big stack It'll take more than a 140,000 chip stack to frighten Annette Obrestad, and she just demonstrated her willingness to tangle with the tournament chip...more

If ever there was a city designed to host a poker tournament, it is Los Angeles, California. Ever since movie moguls descended on this particular wandering sprawl sometime in the 1920s, more wannabes have landed here with a dream than perhaps any other city in the world. For a lucky...more

by Brad Willis and Change100 The road to Argentina is the road to the end of the world. Drive far enough down its coasts and through its mountains, and you might just fall off the planet. Oh, sure, there is a greater chance you'll just get frostbite on the...more

6:50pm: Martin Sansour wins the LAPT Rosario, Bolivar Palacios eliminated in second place On the second hand of heads-up play, Bolivar Palacios open-raised, Martin Sansour moved all-in and Palacios made the call. Palacios: A♦Q♣ Sansour: A♣K♣ Dominated and the LAPT title at risk, Palacios needed some serious help on...more

Out of the 254 players who started the LAPT Grand Final in Rosario, Argentina, only eight remain. The final table players come from around South America, the USA, and Sweden. They have many final tables among them, but only one, Matthias Habernig, has an LAPT championship. For a better look...more