Slow and Steady

Toronto Canada's Veerab Zakarian, who finished runner up in this event in 2014, has heaps heading into the late levels and is looking to bag big.

Zakarian has a reputation as one of the top young players in the area and is apparently as smart as a whip. He hasn't sent anyone to the rail and has avoided big confrontations all day, just grinding it up into a big stack without raising the heart rate too much.

Although, he just moved over the 200,000-chip mark making a set of fours in a decent-sized pot to grab the chip lead.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the room, it's the same story for Rochester, NY's Tony Angora, who has crept up right behind Zakarian into a spot near the top of the leaderboard, without the benefit of very many big pots either.

Slow and steady apparently wins this race.