Timothy Rutherford Wins the Black Chip Bounty NLH for $86,118
Event #3 of the Borgata Winter Poker Open was the $500 Black Chip Bounty NLH. There was a Borgata Poker record-setting field for the event with a massive 1,165 entries creating a prize pool of over $395,000.
The dust settled in the early morning hours in the Event Center and Timothy Rutherford was the last man standing. He built a big stack early in the night and stayed near the top of the chip counts throughout.
He entered the final table in second chip position but it didn't take long for Rutherford to pull ahead after eliminating David Finley.
Rutherford then sent two more players to the rail eliminating Benson Tang in seventh and David Frutchey in fifth.
The stacks were nearly even entering heads-up play against Louis Pelletteri, but Rutherford pulled ahead and never looked back earning $86,118 and his first Borgata Winter Poker Open trophy.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Timothy Rutherford | $86,118 |
| 2 | Louis Pelletteri | $51,417 |
| 3 | Stephen Racyn | $31,444 |
| 4 | Larry Abrams | $26,302 |
| 5 | David Frutchey | $21,753 |
| 6 | Anthony Hulbert | $17,601 |
| 7 | Benson Tang | $13,843 |
| 8 | Umberto Salvati | $10,283 |
| 9 | David Finley | $7,258 |
and Pelletteri check-called a bet of 300,000 from Rutherford.
and Pelletteri check-called a bet of 1,200,000. The 
completed the board and Pelletteri checked to Rutherford who bet 5,000,000.
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for two pair and the two players shook hands. Pelletteri is our Event #3 runner up and he will take home $51,417 for his second place finish.
and Matranca showed 
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flop.
river card sealed the deal for Matranca to earn him the pot and the double up.
turn card and Diolosa fired out a bet of 425,000.
completed the board. Diolosa bet 330,000 and Tang moved all in tossing a black $100 bounty chip into the pot. 
board. Nerenberg checked and Rutherford bet 215,000 into a main pot of just over 400,000.
