Level: 25
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 50,000
The Return - A Borgata Championship Event
$5,300 The Return ($3,000,000 Guaranteed)
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
The Return - A Borgata Championship Event
Buy-in
$5,300
Prize Pool
$5,538,700
Entries
1,142
Level
34
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
400,000
Entries
53
Players Left
8
90-Minute Dinner Break
Level 24
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
The 16 remaining players are now on a 90-minute dinner break. They will return to play at ~8:25 p.m.
Saliba Stays Alive With Straight On Board
Level 24
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
There was a preflop cooler in progress as Justin Saliba was at risk just before dinner break.
Justin Saliba: 
Jonathan Borenstein: 
The flop came 
. "Chop, let's see a chop" said Saliba. The turn was the 
"Chop" he said again as it was a real possibility now.
The river was the 
to indeed bring in the chop and keep Saliba alive as Borenstein shook his head, unable to believe the runout.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,650,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
975,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
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Stanton Tentnowski Eliminated in 17th Place ($29,632)
Level 24
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Stanton Tentnowski pushed all of his chips forward except for one for a raise to 375,000. Aubrey Williams made it 750,000 and everyone else folded.
Stanton Tentnowski: 
Aubrey Williams: 
The flop came 
. The turn was a sweat inducer as the 
came off but the sweat was short-lived as the 
on the river ended Tentnowski's day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,450,000
350,000
|
350,000 |
|
Busted |
Devore Devouring Chips
Level 24
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Sundiata Devore has chipped up significantly in the last level and was involved in a big pit with Lanny Vaysman on the river with a pot of at least 1,200,000 in the middle.
The board read 
. Vaysman checked under the gun. Devore slid forward a stack that looked to be a bet of 1,000,000. Vaysman silently folded after thinking for about 30 seconds and Devore added even more to his growinf stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,850,000
550,000
|
550,000 |
|
1,350,000
-1,050,000
|
-1,050,000 |
Table 2 Chip Count Update
Level 24
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,300,000
280,000
|
280,000 |
|
3,150,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
|
3,080,000
-520,000
|
-520,000 |
|
2,780,000
420,000
|
420,000 |
|
||
|
|
2,600,000
400,000
|
400,000 |
|
1,570,000
-410,000
|
-410,000 |
|
1,550,000
375,000
|
375,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
950,000
-25,000
|
-25,000 |
|
|
||
|
900,000
-330,000
|
-330,000 |
Table 1 Chip Count Update
Level 24
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
5,300,000
850,000
|
850,000 |
|
2,550,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
||
|
2,490,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
|
2,400,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
|
2,300,000
1,350,000
|
1,350,000 |
|
2,170,000 | |
|
|
2,100,000
-250,000
|
-250,000 |
|
|
365,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Son Ho Eliminated in 18th Place ($29,632)
Level 24
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Lanny Vaysman opened from early position. Son Ho moved all in from the button, Mukul Pahuja re-jammed from the big blind and Vaysman folded.
Son Ho: 
Lanny Vaysman: 
The flop gave Ho some hope as it came 
. The turn was the 
and the river the 
to confirm the pot for Pahuja with the flush and eliminate Ho.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,350,000
900,000
|
900,000 |
|
|
2,325,000
-1,075,000
|
-1,075,000 |
|
Busted |
Howard Feingold Eliminated in 19th Place ($24,924)
Level 24
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Howard Feingold moved all in preflop and was called quickly by Jarrett Mullins.
Howard Feingold: 
Jarrett Mullins:
The flop came 
. "That's it I'm dead" declared Feingold and this time it was for real as the board ran out 
and the field lost the most talkative player and one of it's biggest characters left in 19th.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,170,000
680,000
|
680,000 |
|
Busted |
Pasquale Picks Off Laskowitz
Level 24
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Action was quickly caught on the river with a board that showed 
. Sam Laskowitz bet 450,000 on the river and Frank Pasquale called.
Laskowitz tabled the 
bluff which Pasquale had beat as he showed the . A couple of tablemates complimented him in the call as he moved just north of 3 million in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,020,000
240,000
|
240,000 |
|
|
1,175,000
-745,000
|
-745,000 |
|
|
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