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Some days a player just can't help but win. This was that day for Joe Tehan. If he took a coinflip, he won. If he got in behind against two players, he found the winning combination of cards. There was simply no stopping the man, and that's why he is...more

5.35pm: Level over That's the end of level 27, and here are the latest counts: Joe Tehan - 11,105,000 Van Nguyen - 955,000 Al Grimes - 1,270,000 Ray Henson - 1,565,000 Chris DeMaci - 6,600,000 As you can see, Joe Tehan is the big boss. 5.30pm: Grimes grinding it out...more

The jokes had been floating around the NAPT Los Angeles Main Event for days. Added to the schedule at the eleventh hour, the Bounty Shootout would be held at the Crystal Casino, a Los Angeles-area gaming establishment located 15 miles south of downtown in the city of Compton. Some folks...more

The final table of NAPT Los Angeles will begin at 2pm at the Crystal Casino, Compton. NAPT Los Angeles final table players Seat 1: Jake Toole, 21, State College, PA Jake Toole is a 21-year-old student from State College, Pennsylvania. A former tennis player at Penn State University, Toole...more

If ever a single hand can set a tone for an entire day of poker, we saw it here on day four of NAPT Los Angeles - and then watched in disbelief as the startling early promise was realized. The hand in question came within the first orbit of the...more

Day 3 of NAPT Los Angeles was not a great day to have "chip leader" attached to your name. If at any point a scribbling blogger counted down your stack and decided you now had more chips than anybody else, it seemed certain you would lose half if not...more

6.45pm: Level over That's the end of level 20. Join us in a sparkling new post for levels 21&22. 6:44pm: Karp almost belly-up With a button-raise behind him, Steven Karp moved all-in from the small blind. Bad timing for him, as Mark Ader woke up in the big blind with...more

3:58: Level 18 done With 48 players remaining, the tournament is on break. We'll be moving to a new live updates post which you can find on the homepage. 3.45pm: Porter done Rep Porter is out. He had a short stack and got it all in with small connectors, 6♠7♥,...more

Here's the seat draw for day three at the NAPT Los Angeles event at the Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles. The plan on day three is to play seven 75-minute levels - the same as day two. The plan on day four is to reduce the field to a final table...more

Talk to an Angeleno for more than about five minutes and the chances are you'll be discussing traffic. Much like the weather to Brits or iPhones to anyone who owns an iPhone, traffic is a tedious consuming obsession to the denizens of Southern California. "The freeway was pretty clear this...more

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

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

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