Championship: Laake & Rose Battle for Chip Lead

$1,650 Buy-In Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds: 2,500/5,000/400 ante
37 players remaining, 241k avg (48 bb)

Michael Laake
Michael Laake

Start of the day big stacks Matt Rose (Largo, FL) and Michael Laake (Boca Raton, FL) continue to stay at the top of the chip counts.

Coming back from break Laake has the lead with 612k, while Rose is down to 550k after nearly reaching 700k during the last level.

Three of the final six women have hit the rail. The latest is Christy Pham (Lake Mary, FL) who moves all in with KcQs against the AhTs of John Holley.

The board runs out 6s5h2c7h7s and Holley gets the knock out.

Pham joins, Jean Miccio (St. Petersburg, FL) and Barbara Jean Cardin (Apollo Beach, FL) on the rail. That leaves Marsha Wolak (Sarasota, FL), Angel Vu (Daytona, FL) and Debra Dorcy (Edgewater,FL) as the only remaining women.

Matt Rose
Matt Rose