Carlos steals an early march

Oliveira is sitting on around 100k

Popular Portuguese player Carlos Oliveira has made early strides in the first level at the Gran Casino... and that's something of an understatement when you consider he now has around 100,000 chips.

Among the shortest stacks overnight, with just 13,700 to work with and sitting in 118th position, it was inevitable that the pro would have his stack in the middle within a short time of the restart.

He found few willing callers however, and with the antes and blinds making for sizeable pre-flop pots, he soon found himself closer to the average stack before picking up KK.

With his table image allowing him to make maximum value, he shoved once more and was called by AJ, with the villain finding now help on the board.

That will please his Fantasy Poker owners!

UPDATE - A little misinformation as to the order of events going around, but what is fact is that Carlos was on around 130,000 chips when we last spoke. The Portuguese is having a good day.