Festa al Lago Underway

With Phelps and Schneider out, there will be no Pokerati patch at the final table

Early reports from the $15k main event of WPT Festa al Lago (at Bellagio) … Michael Phelps showed up to play … he\’s out. And our favorite Donkey Bomber also just got bombed … he got it all-in with Aces only to have his opponent flop quad Queens.

Yikes, when I said \”Feel My Pain,\” I didn\’t mean it so literally.

I\’m following the so-so coverage not-so-closely via CardPlayer.com. A lotta pros … looks to be smaller than last year. Big-name pros playing mostly today (Hellmuth, Brunson, Negreanu, G.Smith, et al), probably because they\’ve got the big premier of their poker musical (The Real Deal) at the Venetian tomorrow night.