Championship Day 1C: Carl Carodenuto Climbing

$1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 Ante

"Emperor" Carl Carodenuto climbing
“Emperor” Carl Carodenuto taking over more chips

Flight C continues to shrink after the registration desk closed, no more chances to get in, while Carl Carodenuto is making a bid to catch current overall leader Jonathan Lagace-Bastien.

Caroduneto, doing a fine imitation of Emperor Palpatine (gratuitous Star Wars reference), continued to move his stack north and has run his lead up to 290,000 at the start of Level 10. Lagace-Bastien finished Flight B with 357,500 and well within Caroduneto’s reach.

More than half of the starting entrants are gone with 112 still her and we expect to cut that in half again before the end around 11pm.