Charity Event: 38 Left at 2nd Break; Chris Cote Leads with 280K

$300 Jeff Conine Celebrity Charity Event
Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  38 out of 370

Chris Cote
Chipleader Chris Cote doesn’t have a lot of physical chips, but those 11 blue chips and one beige chip are worth 280K.

When the players took their second break around 11:30 pm, there were only 38 players remaining, and only three of them had more than 200K in chips.

1.  Chris Cote  –  280,000  (14 bb)
2.  Julia Sturm  –  210,000  (11 bb)
3.  Steve Iodice  –  200,000  (10 bb)

Julia Sturm
Julia Sturm is second in chips at the second break.

In the last level before the break, Michael Damiani was down to just 17,500, which was less than two big blinds, and he got it all in preflop with pocket kings in a big multi-way pot.

The flop came 9c6d3s, one of the other players shoved for an additional 28,000, and another player called, covering both. At this point, Jeff Conine was calling the action on the microphone.

Jeff Conine watches as Michael Damiani Sextuples Up With Kings
Jeff Conine watches as Michael Damiani wins a huge pot with pocket kings.

Big Stack:  As7d
Middle Stack:  Ac9h
Michael Damiani:  KhKd

The turn card was the Js, the river card was the 5c, and Damiani won the main pot with his pocket kings to more than sextuple (6x) his chip stack up to 112,500.

Michael Damiani  –  112,500  (6 bb)

The field is shrinking quickly, and they will probably be at the final table soon.