Paul "paulgees81" Volpe has catapulted up the counts to challenge for the chip lead. He's won a couple of nice-sized pots over the last few orbits. The latest came in which a player raised from middle position, got one caller behind, and Volpe called as well from the small blind with . The flop was a nice one for Volpe -- -- the nut flush and a draw to the nut low. Eventually he would get the original raiser to commit all of his chips with for a worse flush and the same low draw, and would manage to scoop when no low came.

Volpe is up around 225,000 now.