With the board reading by the turn, Katya Grishakova watched her opponent tap the table for a check. With action on her, Grishakova tossed five orange T1000 chips forward for a bet of 5,000.
Her opponent grimaced in response, but after studying Grishakova for a moment, he elected to make the call.
The river came and again the player checked to Grishakova, who responded with a bet of 8,000 this time around. After a lengthy tank, the opponent finally looked her up, and Grishakova proudly rolled over the second nuts with . The flush was good enough, and with that the Russian femme fatale padded her growing stack with a sizable pot.
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Andy Hwang, Winner of the 2013 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event
With many of the game's most recognizable faces still travelling back from the recently concluded PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, today's field is largely comprised of local grinders.
Fortunately, we were able to spot a familiar face among the masses, as Andy Hwang currently sits with a double stack just four levels into the day.
Hwang is picking up right where he left off here at the Borgata Winter Poker Open, steadily amassing a big stack early on Day 1A of this $500+$60 re-entry event.
Randy Pfeifer has leapt to the top of the leaderboards after making a big hand in a multiway pot just before the break.
We found him with a bet of 8,500 in front him him in a pot containing well over 10,000 on a board of . His first opponent had moved all in for just over 16,000, and another player in the small blind was contemplating whether to risk his stack. Finally, he folded.
"Ah, I played a hand I shouldn't have," Pfeifer said, sliding calling chips into the middle.
Pfeifer:
Opponent:
The river came a , giving Pfeifer a boat and eliminating his opponent.
After the break, blinds are now 150 and 300 with a 25 ante.
When the floor was loudly called over to a table on the far end of the room, we headed over to check out the scene. Apparently, Danny Focarelli had moved all in for his last 10,200 with the board reading , and after Randy Spainhour verbally announced a call, Focarelli flipped up his hoping to hold the best of it.
Spainhour, however, had not yet revealed his hand, which led to a bit of confusion for the dealer and the rest of the table. In Seat # 1, Spainhour was perilously close to the muck pile, and what some construed as forward motion by him led half the table to declare his hand mucked.
After a brief sit down with the floorman, the situation was resolved and Spainhour finally showed down his for a second-best top pair.
To add some drama to the proceedings, the made an appearance on the river, giving Spainhour yet another second-best hand with two pair. Focarelli, for his part, assumed the worst initially, standing to depart while lamenting his perceived bad beat.
"You've got sevens too..." said Spainhour with a rueful grin, informing Focarelli of his victory while the latter retook his seat.
We found well-known actor and poker enthusiast James Woods grinding away at Table 46, and he had just fired a bet of 1,300 into two opponents on a board of . Both players folded their hands without much thought.
"Did you have king-queen?" a player at the opposite end of the table asked.
"Yeah, I had king-queen," Woods responded, casually tossing into the middle to show a set of deuces. "Good read, good read."
"Hey, sometimes I'm a little off," the prospective hand-reader said with a smile.
Woods looks to have run into a little bit of trouble early on despite the win, as he's well below the starting stack of 20,000.
According to a tournament official, there are more than 900 players in attendance here today on Day 1A, putting us well on pace to meet and exceed the $2 million guaranteed prize pool.
With registration open for a few more levels, we expect more than 1,000 runners in the room by the time late reg concludes.
Tomorrow's Day 1B and Day 1C will occur simultaneously, so tournament officials predict more than 2,000 players to show up on Wednesday.
Check in with PokerNews throughout the day to follow the day's events, as Event 1 of the Borgata Winter Poker Open continues.
The blinds are up to 75 and 150, and the majority of the tables have gone up to nine-or-ten-handed play. The first break is approaching in fifteen minutes.
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by the turn, Katya Grishakova watched her opponent tap the table for a check. With action on her, Grishakova tossed five orange T1000 chips forward for a bet of 5,000.
and again the player checked to Grishakova, who responded with a bet of 8,000 this time around. After a lengthy tank, the opponent finally looked her up, and Grishakova proudly rolled over the second nuts with 
. The flush was good enough, and with that the Russian femme fatale padded her growing stack with a sizable pot.
. His first opponent had moved all in for just over 16,000, and another player in the small blind was contemplating whether to risk his stack. Finally, he folded.
, and after Randy Spainhour verbally announced a call, Focarelli flipped up his 
for a second-best top pair.
into the middle to show a set of deuces. "Good read, good read."
