Umansky Used To Beating Tough Table Draws

Event 7 (Flight B)
Level 8 (300/600/100)

Total Entries: 190

Alex Umansky (Scarsdale, NY)

In a field of close to 200 players, it's not likely that you'll get a table full of "notable" even "good" players in the early levels, but it happens from time to time, as it did earlier today when we had a stacked should be "feature" table to our direct right to start Flight A.

It's happened here again in Flight B as Table 8 is home to the last two major champions crowned through the first half of the Card Player Poker Tour series, Foxwoods regulars Marsel Backa, winner of the $100,000 GTD Event 1 and Teddy Geddes, winner of last night's Event 5.

Joining them at the table is Alex Umansky (Scarsdale, NY) who despite only having one rated score to his name, is a Borgata Poker champion, after winning a $100,000 GTD event during last year's Fall Poker Open.

While his table draw to start Event 7 will surely be a difficult one, he's beaten a tough table draw before, as the "amateur" outlasted tournament professionals Roman Valeqstein, Robert Pantich and Aditya Prasetyo, who has multiple poker titles, including a WSOP Circuit win at Foxwoods, to claim his first ever poker score and title.

That championship run lasted until the early morning hours and when we ran into Alex this afternoon we joked that while tonight has a set stop time, after Level 15, tomorrow could potentially be another late night if he hopes to claim another poker title, something he sure hopes is the case here at the Card   Player Poker Tour.

There are just over 15 minutes remaining in Level 8, meaning that the late registration period will be ending shortly and when it does when the players return from their post-Level 8 break, we will bring you an updated player count and finalized pool for Event 7 in it's entirety.