Event 1 (Flight Q): Catching Up To The "Q"

Event 1 ($150 Monster Stack NLH)
Level 11 (Blinds 800/1,600/200)
Total Flight Q Entries: 145
Flight Q Players Remaining: 40

Mike "Little Man" Sica

Flight Q has flown under the coverage radar so far this afternoon/early evening, but the largest flight of the event so far is now in fear view.  Registration for the flight has been over for close to four levels now, and the field is down to four tables.  

One of the more notable names to survive to this point has been TJ Shulman, who is coming off an impressive summer, and a very meaningful career tournament win.  Shulman's last cash on his resume isn't the largest of his career, but it was one of his three outright wins...and a tournament that's played in memory of one of the kindest players to ever play the game.

Mike "Little Man" Sica is a name that may not be familiar to the tournament circuit in Florida, but that's likely because Sica stopped flying early in his career.  Any venue that he played (outside of the Northeast) was reached via automobile, and it was really only Las Vegas that he would take the long trip to.  There are enough adjectives to describe Sica...kind, funny, boisterous...a laugh that would make the entire room smile.  

Sica was a good friend of Shulman's, and after Mike succumbed to his battle with cancer, the Borgata named their "Senior's Event" after Mike in his memory.  TJ managed to take the trophy in that event this past September, earning himself over $8,000.  More important than the money was the name behind the tournament, and what it stood for.

Shulman is currently above the chip average of 100,000, and is focused on bagging with his first bullet of the event.