2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open

Event 1: $560 $1 Million Guaranteed Deep-Stack NLHE Reentry
Day: 1d
Event Info

2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open

Final Results
Winner
Carlos Alvarado
Prize
$127,652
Event Info
Buy-in
$500
Entries
2,482
Level Info
Level
35
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
40,000

Registration Closed

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 200 ante
Chips
Chips

With the start of Level 10, registration is closed for Event 1: $560 $1 Million Guaranteed Deep-Stack NLHE Reentry. When we learn the final numbers, we will pass them along to you.

Anna Warming up

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 200 ante
Anna Khait
Anna Khait

Anna Khait was feeling a chill earlier, both at the poker table and temperature wise. She donned a sweater and also warmed up at the poker table, having built her stack back up after being crippled in an earlier hand when her opponent had a set of twos. She's up to 66,000 now and feeling good about her chances.

Player Chips Progress
Anna Khait
Anna Khait
66,000
54,500
54,500

Richey Tripped Up By Spades

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Brett Richey raised to 2,600 from early position, both players in the blinds called, and the dealer spread {2-Spades}{q-Spades}{2-Clubs}. The player in the small blind checked, his neighbor fired out 4,000, and only Richey called.

The turn was the {5-Spades}, the player essentially moved all in (he left a single black T100 chip behind, and Richey pushed out a pile of chips forward to seal the deal. The player called.

Richey: {k-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}
Opponent: {j-Spades}{4-Spades}

Richey turned trip deuces, but his opponent made a spade flush, and the {9-Clubs} bricked off on the river.

Player Chips Progress
Brett Richey us
Brett Richey
80,000
-20,000
-20,000

Tags: Brett Richey

Who Needs Two Cards?

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 200 ante
Micah Raskin
Micah Raskin

We didn't witness the hand but Micah Raskin came by the PokerNews Live Reporting table and told us a story. "There was a limp and three callers, I was on the button and the dealer only gave me one card. I'd always heard about people who had raised with just one card and I thought if there was ever a time to do it, this is it. I make it 6,000 to go, everyone folds and I say to the table 'I'm not bluffing a lot but I am this time' and I showed them the {10-Diamonds}."

Well played sir. Well played.

Player Chips Progress
Micah Raskin us
Micah Raskin
65,000
19,000
19,000

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Big Names at Adjacent Tables

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

East Coast natives Jeffrey Papola and Victor Ramdin are seated at adjacent tables over in the Poker Room, and while Papola has built a bigger stack (96,000) than Ramdin (16,000) thus far, both players have extensive rèsumés.

Ramdin has nearly $4 million in career live tournament earnings, including a 13th place finish in the 2007 WPT Borgata Poker Open for $54,321. His biggest score came in 2006 - he win the WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic for over $1.3 million.

Papola made a name for himself at the 2010 WSOP, when he reached two final tables in less than a week, winning a $5,000 buy-in six-handed event for $667,443 and finished runner-up in a $2,500 buy-in six-handed event for $391,068.

Tags: Jeffrey PapolaBorgataVictor Ramdin

Wallace's Boys Stand Up

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante
Sean Wallace
Sean Wallace

The action was opened to 3200 by Sean Wallace and a short stacked player to his immediate left moves all in for 13300. A player in late position calls and when the action got back to Sean, he moved all in for 59100 more.

"Can I get a count," the late position caller asked.

Sean sat there, his glasses perched halfway down his nose. He looked straight ahead, occasionally daring to peek a glance at his foe.

"Sorry guys," said the late position player as he played with a stack of chips in his right hand, fumbling them as if they were fresh out of the oven. Finally he folds and Wallace turns over {K-}{K-}. The short stacked player has a meager {A-Diamonds}{8-Spades} and when the board runs out {9-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds}{5-Hearts} he is eliminated while Wallace moves into six figure territory with his stack.

Player Chips Progress
Sean Wallace us
Sean Wallace
105,000
82,000
82,000