In all my years of tournament reporting, I have never seen anyone amass chips early in poker tournaments as consistently as Mid-States Poker Tour Team Pro Blake Bohn and online poker legend Mark “P0ker H0” Kroon. Both are “go-big-or-go-home players,” meaning they’re not afraid to bust if it gives them a shot at the chip lead. Oftentimes they do, but in those instances they don’t they nearly always find themselves the big stack in the room.
For instance, when Bohn won the 2014 MSPT Grand Falls Casino Main Event — a tournament that was live reported right here on PokerNews — he ran his 20,000 starting stack up to 403,000 on the first day, nearly double the 215,000 stack of Justin Heilman who finished Day 1a second in chips.