Caruso Cuts Down Guthrie, Takes Over Chip Lead

CPPT Main Event (Day 2)

Level 14 (1,200/2,400/400)
Total Entrants: 282
Players Remaining: 73
Chip Average: 115,000

PJ Caruso (Georgetown, MA)

We opened today highlighting Bart Guthrie who entered today as one of the bigger stacks in the room and while he's still above the chip average, the majority of his chips have been sent across his table to PJ Caruso (Georgetown, MA) who is now looking like the biggest stack in the room and the only player over the 300,000 chip mark.

The action was picked up late in the most recent hand, but he board read [9s][Ah][2d][3s][7s] and Caruso held [6s][5s] tabled in front of him.

Guthrie had already mucked and was shaking his head as he cut out close to 30,000 chips to pay off Caruso's river bet.

Caruso would take in the pot and by the look of Guthrie's face and body language after the hand, we'd imagine that he wasn't too happy with how it all played out.

Caruso certainly won't be complaining though as he will enter the first break of Day 2 with what looks to be the chip lead in this Card Player Poker Tour Main Event as he looks to build off a 16th place finish from the last Foxwoods Championship event he cashed in, a result that earned him $8,000, the biggest tournament score of his career.

Players will return from break to Level 15 and will be more or less at a point of a 50/50 split between those who will make the money and those who won't in the CPPT Main Event.