Big Stack Watch
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Our last-minute scan of the room finds a new potential chip leader.
Italian Claudio Cecchi is sitting with every bit of 250,000 as the last few hands are dealt, and some quick investigative work tells us how it happened.
Cecchi was sitting pretty patiently for most of the day until he was the recipient of three straight big pots. The first one saw him double up when his pocket aces found a customer with pocket kings. Just moments later, Cecchi got his money in again when he flopped top set against an opponent with a combo draw. The draw never came through, and Cecchi found himself with plenty of chips to sit still.
He would not sit still, though. A few hands later, he ran his pocket queens into an opponent's pocket kings in another preflop all in. Cecchi managed to bink a queen on board to win the pot and vault him all the way up to the chip lead. We'll have to wait for the bags to come out, but we'll call him the chip leader for now.
Also on the radar:
David Vamplew ~200,000
Tony Cascarino ~180,000
Max Steinberg ~165,000
Kenny Hicks ~155,000
Alain Roy ~145,000