Ladies Might Be Co-Leaders During Bubble Standoff

CPPT Main Event (Day 2)

Level 18 (2,500/5,000/500)
Total Entrants: 282
Players Remaining: 38
Chip Average: 215,000

Rachel Kranz (New York, NY)

The short stacks don't seem to be wanting to get involved with many pots on this Card Player Poker Tour Main Event bubble, but some of the chip leaders are splashing around and doing so profitably as they've almost all been able to increase their stack over the last fifteen minutes or so.

Rachel Kranz and Sharman Olshan are the only female players still alive in this CPPT Main Event but they might also be the two biggest stacks in the room as they've been able to each move over the 350,000 chip mark while bossing this money bubble.

Kranz just took a sizable pot off of PJ Caruso as the two got into a little leveling war on a flop of [Js][10s][3s] with Krantz leading out for 13,500 and Caruso raising to 27,000 from the button.

Kranz would then click it back to 65,000 and Caruso would shoot her a look before calling to see the turn.

The [2h] was about as "brick" as you could get and it didn't slow Kranz down as she led out again, this time for 60,000.

Caruso went into the tank and eventually verbalized "fold" before saying, "Show me? Give you twenty bucks...A hundred?"

"No thank you sir." Kranz would say as she took in the pot, leaving Caruso searching for answers and a decent portion of his stack as he's now been cut down to below the chip average.

We've only seen one player get eliminated over the last half hour and this "slow" stand-off-ish pace could continue as this isn't a few hundred dollar money bubble we're trying to pop as we have just moved into Level 18.