The remaining 15 players in Event 1 are taking their seats, unbagging their chips and getting ready for action to begin in the final day of this $135 + $15 No Limit Hold’em event.
There are a few interesting stories going into Day 3 action, but none more intriguing than the true “chip-and-a-chair” story of Daniel Charette. Daniel starts Day 3 with over 2.5M in chips, third on the leaderboard – but with less than 30 players left he found himself sitting with just two 5K chips – enough for two antes. He won that hand, taking down the antes but leaving the blinds for the side pot. And then he won another hand a little bit later to double up… to 80K! Evidently that was a big enough stack to fold a couple of hands, because when he went on break a few minutes later he had just 55K left.
But Daniel stayed patient and found a hand pretty soon after the break and tripled up to 160K… and chipped up some more to sit on an over 600K stack when this hand happened, and vaulted him to almost 2M in chips. We’ll be following Daniel’s progress closely today.
