Brother and sister team Anthony "Murph" Gugino and Lynn Gugino still have stacks in both tournaments.
However, Lynn is sitting in front of a 50,000-chip stack that is the biggest on one side of the room right now. It was actually Anthony who ran up the stack, making trip nines and a pair of straights to win a handful of big pots.
Now he's on the other side of the room hoping that luck both follows him there and stays with his sister.
Local heros Alex Visbisky and Rick Block are down to one stack.
Visbisky busted out of the one tournament in some kind of flush-over-flush debacle. Lucky for him, Block managed to get it in bad on the other side of the room and find a way out of trouble.
Block ran tens into kings and binked a ten. Their stack is actually the biggest on that side of the room now. Visbisky is playing it with Block keeping a close eye on the action from the rail.
Regular readers of this blog will know Aaron Obstein is often referred to as "The Barnacle." Once he gets in a tournament, it's almost impossible to knock him out.
The man plays the short stack like a champ and never gives up.
His dad Jerry Obstein, who most people around here call "Coach," is suddenly demonstrating some of those same skills on the other side of the room.
He called off with aces up against a flush and was left with barely enough for a small blind. However, he got that in with jack-king off and cracked queens on a king river the very next hand.
He's still only pushing three or four big blinds, but the way the Obstein's play, that could last all night.
To say wild man Andy Snover plays loose and aggressive would be an understatement. This local has become a legend for just that reason.
However, he thinks he's found the perfect partner for this Tag Team Event in Shareef Abdallah. Abdallah will be the first to tell you his style is the polar opposite of Snover's. Tight is right over here and Abdallah is the Yin to Stover's Yang.
Last level Snover made an admittedly scummy call with the five-six offsuit. He hit two pair and faded a flush draw to get it up to 30,000 on one side of the room. Now he's on the other side and looking to run up a second stack while Abdallah babysits the first.
Kristan Mackiewicz made two pair against James DiPasquale's top-top to bust him out of one tournament before it was time to switch seats.
She left a double stack behind to start working with the one left by her Dad, the decidedly tighter James Bucki. No matter, Mackiewicz figures that 20 minutes from now she'll have run this one up, and that stack she left behind will be right around where she left it.
"I trust my Dad," she said.
Over on Bucki's table he agrees she has every reason too.
"That's because she knows I don't play any hands," he said.
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