After a long, hard-fought tournament the final day of Event 1 has reached its heads-up phase with just two players remaining in contention for the top prize of $30,600 (prize reflects a player deal made at 3 players remaining).
The two players still in the action are Ahmad Baalbaki and Mike Lafable, whose voyage to this point could not have been more different. Where Ahmad was among the chip leaders from early on in Day 2, Mike was never among the leaders until the very end. And where Ahmad played a tight, aggressive game, Mike seemed to alternate between trying to open up the game by playing a lot of hands and then periods of extremely tight play as he needed to double up to survive. But, survive he did – as did Ahmad – and both players have done very well to get to this point in the tournament.
