2019 Borgata Poker Open

Event #9: $300 Deepest Stack NLH
Day: 1a
Event Info

2019 Borgata Poker Open

Event Info
Buy-in
$300
Prize Pool
$211,092
Entries
837
Players Left
6
Average Chip Stack
5,580,000
Total Chips
33,480,000
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
120,000 / 250,000
Ante
250,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
443
Players Left
81

Event #9: $300 Deepest Stack NLH

Day 1a Completed

Joe Ferrigno Leads After Flight A of Event #9: $300 Deepest Stack NLH

Level 16 : 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Joe Ferrigno
Joe Ferrigno

Flight A of the 2019 Borgata Poker Open Event #9: $300 Deepest Stack NLH drew 443 entries, but after 16 levels of play approximately 80 remained. Leading the pack with over 600,000 was Joe Ferrigno, while Peter Zarriello was hot on his heels with 580,000.

Others who made it through were Charles Kassin (441), David Hom (407,000), Ci Zhou (320,000), Marc Wagner (289,000), Alex "Chapo" Jim (229,000), and Zach Gruneberg, who was fresh off winning Event #3: $500 Black Chip Bounty for $56k.

Of course, not everyone was fortunate enough to find a bag. Among those to try and fall were Michael Wang, Kenny Nguyen, Donald Williams, Greg Reeves, Aubrey Williams, Corbin Avery, Chris Leong, and Blake Whittington.

The advancing Flight A players will join the Flight B survivors for Day 2 action at noon local time on Tuesday. Official numbers, the prize pool, and payout information will be released tomorrow, which is also when action will play down to a winner.

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand to capture all the big hands and eliminations, so be sure to join us then. While you wait be sure to follow the live updates from Flight B here.

Various End-of-Day 1a Chip Counts

Level 16 : 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

A full list of counts and the Day 2 seat draw will be posted as soon as they're made available by Borgata staff.

Player Chips Progress
Joe Ferrigno us
Joe Ferrigno
605,900 5,900
Peter Zarriello us
Peter Zarriello
580,000 80,000
Charles Kassin us
Charles Kassin
441,000
David Hom us
David Hom
407,000 307,000
Hiroaki Harada us
Hiroaki Harada
394,000
Qing Guo us
Qing Guo
359,000
Ci Zhou us
Ci Zhou
320,000 320,000
Modechai Friedman us
Modechai Friedman
305,000
Marc Wagner us
Marc Wagner
289,000
Carlos Matos us
Carlos Matos
267,000
John Delio us
John Delio
242,000
Alex Jim us
Alex Jim
229,000 29,000
Robert McClay us
Robert McClay
108,000
Zach Gruneberg us
Zach Gruneberg
96,000 1,000

Zarriello Climbing the Counts

Level 16 : 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Peter Zarriello
Peter Zarriello

A middle-position player raised to 16,000 and Peter Zarriello three-bet to 48,000 from the small blind. The player in the big then four-bet all in for 80,000, the original raiser got out of the way, and Zarriello snap-called.

Zarriello: {a-Hearts}{a-Clubs}
Big Blind: {a-Spades}{k-Spades}

Zarriello had the goods and locked up the elimination on the turn as the board ran out {8-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{j-Clubs}{7-Clubs}.

Zarriello is among the big stacks in the room, but right now it looks as if everyone is chasing Lou Ferrigno who is sitting on roughly 600,000.

Player Chips Progress
Joe Ferrigno us
Joe Ferrigno
600,000
Peter Zarriello us
Peter Zarriello
500,000

Tags: Peter ZarrielloJoe Ferrigno

Level: 16

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 6,000

[Removed:292] Busts a Shorty

Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Derek [Removed:292]
Derek [Removed:292]

A short-stacked player got his last 30,000 or so all in preflop and was looking to survive against Derek [Removed:292], who didn't have him covered by much.

[Removed:292]: {k-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}
Opponent: {a-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}

[Removed:292] took the lead on the {4-Spades}{k-Hearts}{2-Hearts} flop and held on to it through the {6-Spades} turn and {10-Hearts} river to score the knockout.

Player Chips Progress
Derek Kraft us
Derek Kraft
60,000

Tags: Derek Kraft

Alex "Chapo" Jim Building in Flight A

Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Last year, east coast grinder Alex "Chapo" Jim made headlines in the poker world when he bested a 1,560-entry field to win World Series of Poker Circuit Foxwoods Multi-Flight for $134,570 and a gold ring. It was a breakthrough performance and Chapo, who is in action here in the Day 1a flight, talked about the win and his poker journey on the LFG Podcast right here on PokerNews with hosts Jamie Kerstetter and Chad Holloway.

If you want to know more about the man who is looking to become a Borgata champ, give it a listen.

Player Chips Progress
Alex Jim us
Alex Jim
200,000 200,000

Tags: Alex Jim

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 5,000