Thomas Cannuli Stacking Up HUGE at the 7-Day No Rathole Tables

ACR pro Thomas Cannuli is killing it at the 7-Day No Rathole Tables at Americas Cardroom.

The No Rat Hole Tables feature a 10 Big Blinds Buy-in. If you leave a winner and want to return to the No Rathole tables, you must come back with the same amount you left with (that amount locked in for 7 days)
    
Here is how it works:

Player X buys-in for $1,000, wins $1,000 and leaves the table with $2,000. Two days later he returns to play again and when he sits down, he will be prompted to buy-in with the $2,000 he left with. This is the only option if he wants to play on the 7-Day No Rathole Tables again.

After a 7-day period from when Player X originally won his money, it resets and he’ll be able to sit down again for the set buy-in.

Tables currently available at these stakes: $0.10/$0.25, $1/$2, $5/$10, $50/$100.

Here’s a list of Cannuli's current stack sizes by stake as of October 23rd, 2019:

$1/2 Texas Hold’em: $154
$1/2 Pot Limit Omaha: $29
$3/6 NLH: $2,400
$3/6 PLO: $18,400
$5/10 NLH: $29,500
$5/10 PLO: $17,500
$15/30 NLH: $4,300
$15/30 PLO: $93,000

ACR had an opportunity to sit down with Cannuli to do a little one-on-one interview.

ACR: How have things been going for you as of late?
Cannuli: Here’s what we’ve got going on. We’re ratholing, we’re streaming live, we’re building stacks. And we’ve just got the party started.

ACR: You’ve spun up some pretty wild stacks from 10 big blinds. Has it all been smooth sailing?
Cannuli: I’m not going to lie, I’m in for a lot of buy-ins. It’s been very difficult at the bottom with the ratholes. The $15/$30 Hold’em for example, I’m in for $20,000. I’m in for $2k at the $1/$2 PLO.

It all depends what you’re trying to accomplish. If you sit and are looking to double up or grow your stack to say 100 big blinds and then cash-out and start again in a week, it’s a whole lot easier than when you’re trying to grow your stack up to something huge.

If you grow your stack, and then somebody who’s built it up just as big gets ahold of you at the top, it can be hard.

ACR: We noticed that you’re not currently playing the $50/$100 rathole games. Is there any particular reason why?
Cannuli: Let me put it this way, I currently have $93k on a table in a game that’s 3 times smaller than $50/$100. If I had the same number of big blinds at a $50/$100 game, that would be $300k. I just can’t afford to have that kind of money sitting at a table.

I’ve found a sweet spot to my knowledge, other players just aren’t getting $100k deep in the $15/$30, while they are in the $50/$100. And what I can tell you about these games, is that it’s a big advantage to have a big stack.

As hard as it is at the beginning when you’re trying to build your stack up, you can pick off a lot of 10 big blinds stacks when you get rolling.

ACR: You made a pretty big prop bet about the $5/$10 NRHT recently. Can you tell us a bit about that?
Cannuli: I basically get one year to run my stack up from 10 blinds to 10,000. I bet $5,000 to win $30,000, so I’m getting 6 to 1 on it right now. I’m up to just shy of $30,000, so we’re getting there.

ACR: What’s next for you? Any upcoming plans?
Cannuli: At the moment I’m just grinding and building up some towers. I’m looking forward to the $6 Million Venom of course next month. That’s the can’t-miss online event of November.

Cannuli isn’t the only one who’s run up some big stacks at the 7DNRT tables. Here’s a look at some of the biggest current stacks per limit.

- Ace King, Gambling911.com