The Word from Brasilia

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Cash game specialist Gabe Thaler still going strong

Tables are slowly breaking over here in Brasilia. About every 10-15 minutes another table breaks and the players are relocated to another part of the room. A lot of times last year, the players would break from a table only to be moved over to the Amazon room. The staff this year has kept the players in Brasilia with the plan to move them over once all the tables get broken down here. A few tables were moved to the Amazon room early on, but that has since stopped. It's somewhat like there's two separate tournaments going on.

While we've lost the likes of Liv Boeree, Brandon Cantu, and David "Chino" Rheem throughout the day, Jean-Robert Bellande, Steve Topakas, Gabe Thaler, Jeff Tims, and Alex "Assassinato" Fitzgerald are still going strong. Jamie Roberts and Igor "Jr Parlay" Borukhov have emerged as two of the biggest stacks in the room. Borukhov looks to be the chip leader of the entire event right now with slightly over 150,000 chips. If you remember back to the WSOP Circuit event at Caesars Atlantic City, Borukhov stormed to the chip lead early in that event as well, only to barely eek into the money.

Tags: "Jr Parlay"Igor Borukhov Jamie Roberts