Saturday, February 17, 2018

"February $50,000" (Day 2): Gino Cham "Luckboxes" His Way To A Top Five Stack

"February $50,000"
$250 No Limit Hold'em | $50,000 GTD
Level 13 (Blinds 1,000/2,000/300)
Total Entries: 216
Players Remaining: 40

Gino Cham (Lake Worth, FL) said it best after more than doubling up.  "What a luckbox," referring to his pocket kings flopping a set against Nancy Thomas's pocket aces.

Sometimes a table is approached at just the right time, which just happened at Table 9, with three players all-in pre-flop.  After Nancy Thomas flatted the shove of a short stacked player (the all-in was about 30,000), Gino Cham (Lake Worth, GL) shoved out of the big blind, for 88,300.  Thomas quickly made the call, and after Cham tabled K♠ K♣, Nancy showed AA♣.  The third player in the hand rolled over Q♠ 10♣, and the three would watch the dealer spread a flop of KJ 8.  Gino out flopped Nancy, and would hold through the runout, doubling to over 200,000.  Nancy was left with just under ten big blinds, and would be eliminated just a few hands later.

Gino Cham - 220,000 (110bb)

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