A True Rags to Riches Tale
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After bagging and tagging the biggest stack in the room after Day 1b of this event, terrorizing his tablemates with huge overbets and catching the cards he needed at every turn, David Gerassi is at it again.
According to Gerassi, who currently holds two pristine stacks of gold T25000 chips for a cool million in just those two towers, he hasn't held a hand better than pocket sixes despite his rapid ascent to the top of the leaderboard.
Gerassi told us that a key hand for him involved the lowly 
, after he called a 27,000 preflop raise. The flop came 
to give Gerassi trip threes, and when he got an opponent to commit the rest of their chips, the rout was on.
Later, Gerassi took 
up against 
and came out on top once again. The flop fell 
to give his opponent top set, but when Gerassi check-called a bet of 45,000, the 
peeled right off on the turn. Gerassi checked his newly made straight, and shoved all in when the other player bet 60,000. The man with three aces and a draw to the nut flush snapped it off, only to see he had been caught up to by the tournament's terror.
The river blanked off of course, and with that, Gerassi surged into a commanding chip position by literally turning his rags into riches.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,150,000
1,400,000
|
1,400,000 |
, keeping Mangiovi's kings best.
.
river cemented Carnevale's win, and he sent his opponent to the rail.
to war on the 
board.
completed the board on the river, and Mangiovi offered a "good game" across the table while claiming his fallen opponent's stack.
and already in ownership of a huge stack, Eric Rappaport was more than happy to call when a shorty moved all in before him.
and the final board rolled 
to keep Rappaport out in front.
. Cohen bet 96,000, and the cutoff made the call. Both players checked the 
completed the community cards. After asking for a rough count of his opponent's chips, the cutoff put Cohen all in for 319,000. Cohen snap-called.
for the classic coin flip confrontation.
) and river (