Stefanski Knows It's Not How You Start, It's How You Finish

CPPT Main Event (Day 2)

Level 16 (1,500/3,000/400)
Total Entrants: 282
Players Remaining: 57
Chip Average: 145,000

David Stefanski came into today with just over 10 big blinds and is now playing over 300,000 and has one of the bigger stacks in this Card Player Poker Tour Main Event. 

We mentioned Foxwoods "regular", tournament professional and new father David Stefanski as a early Flight A chip leader during yesterday's coverage but after that post, like the rest of the "regulars" we talked about, he didn't chip up, he went down and managed to bag a well under average stack of 30,000 chips.

He entered today's Day 2 with just over 15 big blinds and has managed to spin that stack up in a big way, as he's currently playing just over 300,000 and looking like one of the leaders as we continue to play down to the money in the Card Player Poker Tour Main Event.

It obviously takes a little "luck" and "timing" to turn a small stack like that into a massive one, but it goes to show the power of just getting to Day 2 as Stefanski could have very easily made his move late in Flight A, but waited for a better spot(s) after the restart and it's paid off in a big way.

We've seen a run like this before in this series, as Brad St. Vincent came back into Day 2 of the opening $100,000 GTD event with less than 10 big blinds and managed to turn that into a second place finish and a massive score.

If Stefanski can do the same, and with his tournament resume and experience we wouldn't doubt it, he'd earn his biggest cash since 2012, when he won his second Foxwoods Poker title and just over $50,000.

He and the rest of the field are a long way from that point, but now that Stefanski isn't crippled with a short stack the rest of the field should be on high alert as he looks to make a deep run in the first event of his 2015 poker season.