2016 Poker Open

Event 13 Flight A: Nancy Birnbaum Cruising with One Entry

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 9: 500/1,000/100 Ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 42 of 101

Nancy Birnbaum
Nancy Birnbaum

By her own account, Nancy Birnbaum was down to 3,000 chips, but that didn’t deter her. She stuck it out, spun her stack up and now sits on holdings of more than 100,000. The Fort Lauderdale pro is the chip leader with the field sitting at right around 40 players remaining.

Her tablemates are doing their best to combat her, though. Birnbaum is a member of the Blue Shark Optics team, and as such, has a signature pair of sunglasses with the company — a pair two players at Birnbaum’s table just so happen to be wearing.