2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open

Borgata Winter Poker Open Side Events

Event 4: Kevin Kenkelen Eliminated in 9th Place ($1,375)

Kevin Kenkelen - 9th Place
Kevin Kenkelen - 9th Place

Kevin Kenkelen moved all in for 58,000 on a {2-Spades}{3-Hearts}{8-Diamonds} flop, and Hamid Kashvari called. James Donald then moved all in over the top for 165,000 more. Kashvari folded.

Donald: {a-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{4-Spades}{10-Spades}
Kenkelen: {4-}{5-}{9-}{10-}

The turn was a {5-Spades}, and Kenkelen was left needing an ace to make a wheel and chop. The river was the {9-Spades}, and Kenkelen was the first man eliminated from the official final table.

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Event 4: Kenkelen Under 10 Big Blinds

Hamid Kashvari raised to 30,000, and James Donald called from the button. Kevin Kenkelen raised to 132,000 from the small blind. Kashvari folded, and Donald decided to go all in. Kenkelen called.

Kenkelen: {a-Clubs}{2-Clubs}{6-Spades}{k-Hearts}
Donald: {a-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}{q-Clubs}

The board ran out {q-Spades}{3-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{6-Hearts}{j-Spades}, giving Donald a pair of queens for high and a chop of the low, as both had ace-deuce. Donald now has 300,000, while Kenkelen has 95,000.

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Event 3: You Gotta Have Faith

James Woods just shipped a chunk of change across the table, with Daniel Molhall the recipient of a well-timed double up.

The flop read {j-Spades}{9-Hearts}{4-Diamonds} when we caught the action, with a bet of 14,200 pushed in front of Molhall's stack. Woods decided to put Molhall to the test, raising to 40,000 even, and after asking the dealer to pull in the bets Molhall moved all in for 42,800 more.

Woods shrugged and announced a call, turning over the {j-Hearts}{6-Hearts} for top pair, but Molhall had him outkicked with his {K-Diamonds}{j-Diamonds}.

When the {k-Spades} dropped in on the turn, the pot was awarded to Molhall, and after a meaningless {4-Spades} on the river, he moved to just over 200,000 late on Day 1 of this event.

Molhall made sure to let us know that his wife Faith was at home following along with the PokerNews updates, so if you're out there Mrs. Molhall, sleep easy knowing your man is still alive and kicking.

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Event 4: Final Table Stacks

SeatPlayerChips
1Kevin Kenkelen130,000
2Greg Drobnis235,000
3Joe Villella190,000
4Hamid Kashvari370,000
5Yuebin Guo190,000
6Joseph Astorina250,000
7Robert Renner230,000
8Jim Stansbury130,000
9James Donald125,000
10Marvin Rosen14,000

Event 3: Brooklyn's Finest

There are currently 125 players left in Event 3 ($560 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry), with the average stack sitting right around 115,000 chips.

Here are the notable names still in contention, along with their current chip counts:

PlayerCount
Coleem Chestnut200,000
James Woods170,000
Stephen Cho100,000
Amnon Filippi127,000
Andy Hwang48,000