At the repeated requests of readers in the Shout Box, late last night we trudged through the tables looking for a young player named David Docherty. We found him in the last level of play, where he was nursing a stack of about 12,000 chips. He finished the night with 10,950, which meant that he would start Day 2 with roughly 12 big blinds in his stack.
Docherty's doing much better today. He just busted Michael Binger with pocket aces. Binger held pocket kings and put his stack at risk by moving all in on a flop of . Docherty made the call and came safely through the turn and river .
By adding Binger's stack to his own, Docherty increased his count to 160,000 chips -- about 130 big blinds. Excellent progress, David!