Kanit Reaping Rewards
Level 5
: 200/400, 50 ante
Earlier on, Mustapha Kanit made agreat call for his tournament life and since then he has reaped the rewards that this tournament has offered him. He just took down another big pot to see his stack rise to a mammoth 190,000.
He was battling heads up with Sean Giesbrecht and around 35,000 had made it into the middle by the time the board rested as 
. Kanit bet 35,000 and Giesbrecht called with 
for a rivered set. It wasn't good though as Kanit had turned top set with 
.
The Italian has almost 30,000 more than Jan Suchanek finished with as the Day 1a chip leader and there's more than 3.5 hours left in the day still.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
190,000 | 70,000 |
|
14,500 | -50,500 |