2022 BetMGM March Poker Mania

$1,060 Heads-up Bracket Battle NJ
Day: 1
Event Info

2022 BetMGM March Poker Mania

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kk
Prize
$14,500
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,060
Prize Pool
$39,000
Entries
29
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
29
Players Left
1

March Poker Mania Goes Heads-Up

March Poker Mania
March Poker Mania

March Poker Mania is nearing its conclusion across the BetMGM USA network this weekend, and the highlight of the day in all states is Mania #15: $1,060 HU 32-Max +$10,000 Added to 1st. This is the chance for players to get a heads-up shot at their ambassador, and in New Jersey, Darren Elias is the man in the hot seat.

Players start the day with 50,000 chips, with each opponent facing one villain across the tables. The HU action starts off at 250/500 with an ante of 75 and increases every 8 minutes until the winner is decided.

The action gets going today at 6 pm ET and because of the format of the event, there is no late registration or rebuys allowed in this one. Total entries are capped at 32, so there will be five rounds of action to play down to a winner later tonight.

The winner in this game will get an added bonus. In addition to the prize for first place from the prize pool, BetMGM Poker NJ has added a $10,000 ticket to the top prize, so there is a lot of added value up top tonight for the winner.

Stay tuned here at PokerNews for some of the exciting action from Mania #15: $1,060 HU and find out if end boss Elias can take down this heads-up battle.

Gagliano Gets Big Pot

Level 1, Blinds: 250/500 (75)

Michael “Gags30” Gagliano three-bet pre-flop, and the flop came {10-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}. Gagliano bet 4,379 and got the call. He bet 6.500 on the {k-Spades} turn and got called again to the {4-Hearts} river. They both checked the river, and Gagliano took it down with {a-Clubs}{q-Clubs}.

Player Chips Progress
Michael "Gags30" Gagliano
Michael "Gags30" Gagliano
59,664
9,664
9,664
Darren "Darren_Elias" Elias
Darren "Darren_Elias" Elias
57,833
7,833
7,833
Got_Steam us
Got_Steam
40,336
-9,664
-9,664
MBohmerwald23 us
MBohmerwald23
39,497
-10,503
-10,503

Drew "maniacalmonk" O'Connell Advances

Level 5, Blinds: 500/1,000 (150)

Drew "maniacalmonk" O'Connell raised to 7,000 and got called to see a flop of {j-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}. O'Connell check-called when "Wjc80" shoved for about 27,000.

"Wjc80": {8-Diamonds}{8-Spades}
Drew "maniacalmonk" O'Connell: {j-Hearts}{2-Spades}

O'Connell flopped the best pair, then turned two pair when the board completed {2-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}, sending "Wjc80" to the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Drew "maniacalmonk" O'Connell us
Drew "maniacalmonk" O'Connell
100,000
52,000
52,000
Wjc80 us
Wjc80
Busted

"sorryman" Through to Round 2 with Quads

Level 5, Blinds: 500/1,000 (150)

It limped to the flop of {8-Clubs}{6-Spades}{10-Diamonds} and "sorryman" called a bet of 4,300 from Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken. They both checked the {6-Diamonds} turn and Vanauken called when "sorryman" shoved the biggest stack on the {6-Hearts} river. "sorryman" turned over {q-Clubs}{6-Clubs} for the running quads and the win.

Player Chips Progress
sorryman us
sorryman
100,000
63,000
63,000
Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken us
Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken
Busted

"Scuba" Defeats "audidriver"

Level 3, Blinds: 350/700 (105)

"Scuba" raised to 1,600 and got the call to see {q-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}{2-Hearts} on the flop with about 10k more behind than their opponent "audidriver". "Scuba" bet again for 3,200 on the flop and got a call to {a-Hearts} on the turn.

"audidriver" check-raised the turn from 2,432 to 8,400 and "Scuba" called to {3-Clubs} on the river. "audidriver" shoved for just over 34,000 and got the call.

"audidriver": {j-Hearts}{8-Clubs}
"Scuba": {a-Diamonds}{k-Diamonds}

The turned pair of aces was good for "Scuba" and they were on to Round 3. Elsewhere "MBohmerwald23" also defeated David "TheKing411" Coleman for a Round 3 spot.

Player Chips Progress
MBohmerwald23 us
MBohmerwald23
100,000
Scuba us
Scuba
100,000
45,000
45,000
audidriver us
audidriver
Busted
David "TheKing411" Coleman
David "TheKing411" Coleman
Busted

Michael "Gags30" Gagliano Into Round 3

Level 6, Blinds: 600/1,200 (180)

Josh "layitdown08" Rothberg was down to just under 21,000 chips, and open-shoved from the small blind. Michael "Gags30" Gagliano tank-called.

Josh "layitdown08" Rothberg: {q-Spades}{j-Clubs}
Michael "Gags30" Gagliano: {a-Clubs}{3-Clubs}

Gagliano held with ace-high when the board ran out {7-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{7-Spades}{8-Hearts}{5-Spades}.

Player Chips Progress
Michael "Gags30" Gagliano us
Michael "Gags30" Gagliano
100,000
24,729
24,729
WSOP 1X Winner
Josh "layitdown08" Rothberg us
Josh "layitdown08" Rothberg
Busted

"Jamestown11" Cracks Queens to Survive

Level 8, Blinds: 1,000/2,000 (300)

It limped into the {7-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds} flop and "Jamestown11" check-called for 4,000. They checked again on the {5-Clubs} turn, and called off with less when Matt "MattEMenz" Mendez shoved more than 78k.

"Jamestown11": {8-Spades}{6-Clubs}
Matt "MattEMenz" Mendez: {q-Spades}{q-Hearts}

The river was {8-Diamonds} but "Jamestown11" already had a straight on the turn to get the double.

Player Chips Progress
Matt "MattEMenz" Mendez us
Matt "MattEMenz" Mendez
67,544
7,848
7,848
Jamestown11 us
Jamestown11
32,456
-7,848
-7,848