$500K GTD Kick-Off Finale to Begin at 12 Noon!
After four starting flights and about 12 hours of play on Day 2, the 2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open (BFPO) Event #3: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off is slated to crown a winner today! Just 18 players from a 1,425-entry field will return, each guaranteed $3,956 but all aiming to capture the title and accompanying $155,251 first-place prize.
Jean Paul Norero begins the day as chip leader with more than 4.2 million, while BorgataPoker.com sponsored pro Katie Stone sits in close second with 4.145 million. Rounding out the top three is Soukha Kachittavong with 3.4 million.
The remaining 18 players will return at noon local time. Play will resume in Level 26 with the blinds at 30,000/50,000 and a big blind ante of 50,000 and 34:42 remaining on the clock. Levels will be bumped up to 60 minutes in length for the duration of the event.
Here are the returning players with their Day 3 Table and Seat assignments.
| TABLE | SEAT | NAME | FROM | CHIP COUNT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Christoph Thompson | Cherry Hill , NJ | 590,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Phillip Phan | Collingdale, PA | 1,100,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Mike Linster | Bensalem, PA | 1,585,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Eric Hayes | Moorestown, NJ | 1,505,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Jean Paul Norero | Brooklyn, NY | 4,215,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Yonghui Jiang | Mays Landing, NJ | 2,385,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Joseph Malebranche | Taneytown Car, MD | 1,455,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Katie Stone | Brigantine, NJ | 4,145,000 |
| 1 | 9 | Gilberto Taveras-Garcia | Utica, NY | 1,485,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Soukha Kachittavong | Woonsocket, RI | 3,400,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Jon Borenstein | Teaneck, NJ | 695,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Jason Casale | Elmwood Park, NJ | 1,160,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Patrick Ibrahim | East Brunswick, NJ | 2,715,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Victor Ramdin | Bronx, NY | 2,500,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Scott Boxenhorn | Dix Hills, NY | 2,720,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Bin Weng | Mineola, NY | 2,505,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Markus Alim | Philadelphia, PA | 845,000 |
| 2 | 9 | Mark Gavrilov | Brooklyn, NY | 515,000 |