2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Day 2: Vohra Leads; Kenney in the Hunt

September 18, 2013

Rich Ryan Editor

Season XI of the World Poker Tour continued on Tuesday with Day 2 of the WPT Borgata Open. Leading the remaining 174 players is Florida native Raj Vohra with 580,700 chips. During the last level of play, Vohra won a massive, 400,000-chip pot with A♣9♣ on a flop of 8♣6♣2♠ against Kunal Patel’s Q♠Q♦. The turn was a club, eliminating Patel and rocketing Vohra to the top of the leader board.

Also among the top 10 are Season XI Ones to Watch Ebony Kenney and Jerry Wong, who finished third in the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event.

Rank	Player	Chips
1	Raj Vohra	580,700
2	Katayon Khaterzai	548,000
3	Edwin Torres	544,900
4	Ebony Kenney	480,200
5	Justin Zaki	462,000
6	Alex Rocha	447,500
7	Jerry Wong	445,000
8	Jeremy Kottler	418,600
9	Cong Pham	417,100
10	Marc Manin	413,400

Day 2 began with 1,189 players and the chip leader was Paul Volpe, who final tabled two events in Season X. Volpe took a hit at the start of the day, losing a blind-versus-blind pot with Ax10x on an AxAx3x flop. He was then verbally assaulted by a tablemate later in the day, and the player was disqualified.

Volpe ended the day 27th in chips with 337,700.

Also surviving the day were 2013 World Series of Poker bracelet winner Cliff “Johnny Bax” Josephy, November Niner Ryan Riess, 2013 PCA Super High Roller winner Scott Seiver, Vanessa Selbst, Mukul Pahuja, Victor Ramdin, Jared Jaffee, and David Diaz.

Selbst picked up a pot against the aforementioned Patel during Level 11 (500/1,000/100). Selbst check-raised to 21,200 on a board of A♣5♣3♠6♦, Patel called, and the 3♦ completed the board. Selbst bet roughly half of the pot, Patel called, and Selbst took it down with A♥5♠ for aces up.

Seiver busted a player in Level 13 when he turned top two against an overpair of aces. The river was a brick, and the player hit the rail. Josephy also recorded a knockout during the late stages of the evening, winning an all-in hand with AxJx against an opponent’s KxJx.

Among the eliminations were Lee Childs, Todd Terry, Loni Harwood, Vinny Pahuja, Danny “Miami Boss” Suied, Russell Crane, Keven Stammen, Kevin Saul, Matt Affleck, and Kara Scott.

Scott moved all in during the last level of the evening with AxJx, and was called by Brent Roberts with two kings. The kings held up, and Scott hit the rail. Childs got in 22 big blinds with AxKx against an opponent’s pocket jacks and was unable to win the race for his tournament life. Pahuja was also eliminated with AxKx, but he was up against pocket queens and pocket aces. And Harwood lost a flip with pocket nines against an opponent’s KxJx.