Back From Dinner Strong, Palma Now Leading

Event 5
Level 14 (1,500/3,000/500)
Total Entries: 216
Players Remaining: 33
Chip Average: 95,000

Nick Palma (New Rochelle, NY)

We entered the dinner break with James Freebody leading the field with just under 200,000 chips and we now return from the dinner break and find one player over that mark, but it's not Freebody, it's Foxwoods regular and professional Nick Palma.

Palma returned from dinner with just over the chip average and is now playing close to 225,000 after scoring a quick double up and taking in a few pots to take control of this chip lead with just under 10 minutes remaining in Level 14.

Freebody on the other hand has been cut down and is now playing 150,000, but as this Event 5 field approaches the money, the focus will turn to some of the smaller stacks in the field and on our last trip around the tournament area, there were plenty of players nursing 10-15 big blind stacks, meaning that those players will need to find a double up soon or risk missing out on the money.

Palma doesn't look like he's concerned about that bubble, as he looks like he's poised for another deep run like the one he made in Event 1.

That run saw him work an average stack to a top 15 finish and we wouldn't be surprised to see him best that result here today, as Nick Palma is one of the more dangerous players left in this field when he has chips, especially when he's sitting with over double the chip average.