Thompson Leading, First Over One Million

Event 7 (Day 2)
Level 22 (6,000/12,000/2,000)

Total Entries: 414
Players Remaining: 21
Chip Average: 395,000

Glen Thompson is the first player over the 1,000,000 chip mark here in Event 7 of the Card Player Poker Tour

Our focus on the "big" stacks throughout the first half of Day 2 have been centered around those involved in our "murderer's row" table draws, but there is one player off on his own at the "feature" table that is now leading the Event 7 field.

That player is Glen Thompson (Framingham, MA) who is now near the 1,000,000 chip mark after winning a crucial flip against Alex Houle.

The action was picked up with Houle opening from late position and Thompson would then three-bet to close to 200,000 from the small blind, effectively putting Houle all-in and pricing another big stack, Brad St. Vincent, out in the big blind.

St. Vincent would fold and Houle would push in the remaining chips for a call tabling [Ah][Kd], a classic race against Thompson's [Jh][Jd].

The board would run out [7c][Qs][10h][3s][Qd] and Thompson would fade the straight and pair draws to complete the knockout and scoop the over 400,000 chip pot.

With that elimination we are closing in on the 18 player redraw and Thompson is now the far and away chip leader of Event 7, with just Raj Patel and Soukha Kachittavong in touching distance with each other those players playing 800,000.

Thompson had has some moderate success in previous Foxwoods series, Final Tabling two Mega Stack Challenge events in 2012 and 2013, but is still looking for his "breakthrough" score, something that might come here in Event 7 of the Card Player Poker Tour.

Players are also just a few minutes from the end of Level 22.