Friday, July 25, 2014

Event 17 (Day 1A): All Of The Chips Early

Level 2 (Blinds 75/150)
Total Entries: 49

Michael Rothbard (Potomac, MD)
It usually takes some time for the real action to begin in tournaments with this structure/starting stack.  Players sit down with over 300 big blinds, so to see those chips fly in the first level is a little unusual.  That is not the case for Michael Rothbard (Potomac, MD), who is sitting with 95,000 in front of him.  Michael has tripled his starting stack over the first (90) minutes of the flight, a number that most people would be happy bagging at the end of the day.

Not much is known about Rothbard the poker player, but some research shows his long history in the broadcast, sports, and agency business.  Michael was Vice President (Broadcast and Marketing) for the Washington Redskins, before starting his own company in 2003 (Execituve Media Communications).