Good morning and welcome back to Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa for the 2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open. The 10th main event - a two-day, $660 buy-in reentry tournament - is about to start in a half hour over in the poker room, and with the BSO Championship Event down to 45 players, there are certain to be some big names in the field.
Each player in this event will begin with 15,000 in chips, and Day 1 will either end at 2 a.m. EST or when only 18 players remain. The event will resume on Friday at noon, where a winner will be crowned. The first 10 levels will be 40 minutes in length, and every level after that will be 50 minutes.
PokerNews will bring you coverage of the event from start to finish, with the updates ramping up as the day comes to a close in the Championship Event. The ever popular MyStack App will be available for all players.
"Mad Dog" Mike Shasho has just arrived for Event 10: $660 NLHE Reentry, looking for his third cash of the calendar year.
Shasho has $142,834 in career tournament earnings, including countless cashes here at Borgata. His largest came in 2012, when he finished 12th in a $560 reentry event for $ 20,435.
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Amnon Filippi moved his last 8,300 into the middle, coming over the top of Eugene Z. (this is yet another player who would prefer to remain anonymous).
Eugene had opened to 2,500 and he quickly called the pro's all-in three-bet with . Filippi tabled the to find himself trailing, and when an ace hit the board he was drawing drawing dead.
Joe McKeehen risked his last 15,800 with a preflop shove, but his was badly behind the tabled by the lone caller.
The final board rolled out though, giving McKeehen two pair and the double.
On one of the very next deals, however, McKeehen held against in another preflop all-in confrontation, but a rained down on the flop to move him right back where he started.
The stakes are high here at the Borgata Spring Poker Open
There were 194 entries and reentries recorded in Event 10, generating a total prize pool of $112,908. Take a look at the payout tale below to see what the remaining runners are playing for:
After Joe Kuether opened for 3,200 we saw one player three-bet jam for the last his stack, with Stuart Gelwarg plunking out a massive four-bet for the isolation play. Kuether quickly folded and Gelwarg tabled , finding himself in a dominant position over the three-bettor's move.
The final board ran out and Gelwarg's pair of jacks held up for the win.
He now holds more than double the average stack at the moment.
Mike Sandler just surged into a commanding chip position with just 30 players left in contention, after ending up on the right end of a massive cooler.
One player opened for a standard raise and Sandler flatted with , only see another player jam all in for the three-bet. The opener also went all in and Sandler made the call with his cowboys, finding himself up against a short stack's and the other player's .
Sandler was poised to snatch a huge pot either way, but when the final board ran out his turned set gave him the scoop.
He now sits with just about 3.5 times the average stack at the moment, with play quickly winding its way down to the final two tables - and the money.
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to find himself trailing, and when an ace hit the board he was drawing drawing dead.
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tabled by the lone caller.
though, giving McKeehen two pair and the double.
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