Isle Open Event 1 (Day 2): Must Be Nice To "Run Like Gilkey"

2017 Isle Open | Event #1
$175 No Limit Hold'em | $100,000 GTD
Level 24 (Blinds 12,000/24,000/4,000)
Total Event 1 Entries: 1,239
Players Remaining: 46

The Day 2 storyline to this point has been Christopher Gilkey (Lake Worth, FL), who has almost 1,000,000 more chips than his nearest competitor.

Christopher Gilkey (Lake Worth, FL) returned from break as an overwhelming chip leader, and after a fortunate river moments ago, he continues to pull away from the pack.  Gilkey opened from early position to 58,000 (with big blind of 20,000), with action folding around to the player in the big blind.  After peaking down at his holdings, the player in the big would shove for just over 200,000, with Chris immediately making the call.

Gilkey would be in bad shape though, as his K♥ K♠ ran into A♠ A♣, and needed some help to get out of the hand with a win.  The board would be 8&cubs; 8♥ 9♣ 8♦ heading to the river, which happened to be the K♣, giving Gilkey a two-out come from behind win.  He now has over 2,300,000 in front of him, and is poised to earn the largest tournament cash of his career (which was $2,690 coming in).

Christopher Gilkey - 2,350,000