A True Rags to Riches Tale

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

David Gerassi is the Overwhelming Chip Leader on Day 2 of Event 8 at the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open

After bagging and tagging the biggest stack in the room after Day 1b of this event, terrorizing his tablemates with huge overbets and catching the cards he needed at every turn, David Gerassi is at it again.

According to Gerassi, who currently holds two pristine stacks of gold T25000 chips for a cool million in just those two towers, he hasn't held a hand better than pocket sixes despite his rapid ascent to the top of the leaderboard.

Gerassi told us that a key hand for him involved the lowly , after he called a 27,000 preflop raise. The flop came to give Gerassi trip threes, and when he got an opponent to commit the rest of their chips, the rout was on.

Later, Gerassi took up against and came out on top once again. The flop fell to give his opponent top set, but when Gerassi check-called a bet of 45,000, the peeled right off on the turn. Gerassi checked his newly made straight, and shoved all in when the other player bet 60,000. The man with three aces and a draw to the nut flush snapped it off, only to see he had been caught up to by the tournament's terror.