Break Time
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Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Players are on their first break of the day - 10 minutes until they return. The tournament staff is going around all the tables verifying the new chips with a blue light.
2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open
Event 1: $560 $1 Million Guaranteed Deep-Stack NLHE Reentry
Day: 1d
Day 1d Photos
Kerstetter Back at Home
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Jamie Kerstetter is a local player gone good. A member of the all female poker player group "The Grindettes", the New Jersey native is here today taking part in the poker festivities. The former attorney has an impressive poker resume that includes $520,360 in confirmed online tournament winnings and $373,379 in reported live winnings. This includes a 12th place finish at the WPT Borgata Poker Open in 2012.
She finds herself at the same table as her roomie, Patricia Haggerty. Usually the odds against that happening are pretty slim but as Kerstetter explained "they go up when you late reg together." Jamie had been living in Mexico in order to play online poker but since she signed a sponsorship deal with Party Poker has been back representing the site here in New Jersey and the United States. "It's going good," she said, a smile on her face as she plays the game she loves.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
24,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
Ace from Space
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
A player opened to 550 in the cutoff, a second player called out of the small blind, and Brett Richey re-raised to 2,500 from the big blind. Only his neighbor called.
The dealer spread 
, the player check-called a bet of 2,700, and the turn was the prettiest card in the deck; the 
. Both players checked.
The river was the 
, the pair knuckled again, and the player in the small blind took the pot with 
for a pair of aces.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
21,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
Thompson "Shoves" With Bottom Pair
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
When we arrived at the table, it looked like Chris Thompson was faced with a four-bet (it could've been a three-bet) of 3,500. He made the call, then check-called another 3,000 on a flop of 
. The turn was the 
, both players knuckled, and the 
completed the board.
Thompson led out for 14,100 - leaving a single black T100 chip behind - and his opponent tank-folded. Thompson showed 
for bottom pair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
28,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
The Dannen-Mann
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Steve Dannenmann is in the house, and whenever the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up is around there are likely to be more smiles than usual.
America fell in love with the Maryland native when he made is deep run in the Big One because of his carefree mentality, and his down-to-Earth mantra is unchanged.
After banking $4.25 million in 2005, some of Dannenmann's biggest scores have come right here at Borgata. He finished 11th in the 2008 WPT Borgata Poker Open for $65,000, and took down a side event in the 2011 Borgata Winter Open for $37,679.
More Notables in the Poker Room
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000
-48,000
|
-48,000 |
|
25,000 | |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
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|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
No Es-Khait for Anna
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
We catch up to the action at Anna Khait's table with the board showing 
. Anna has checked and her opponent, two spots to her left, fires out a bet of 4,500. Khait thinks for a moment and makes the call.
The river is the 
and Khait quickly checks. Her opponent fires out another bet, this time for 10,200. Anna's eyes dart over and she grabs her phone and turns the screen off. She looks down at the board and tilts her neck back and forth as if it is sore. Chips are shuffling in her right hand and a perplexed look comes over her face as she peeks at her cards and then glances back at her foe.
Khait looks as if she is going to call when she takes two 5,000 chips and places them on her stack of 100 chips. She motions to the dealer with one finger as if to say "just a minute" and then takes the 5,000 chips back off the 100 chips. She pushes her chair back slightly and asks her nemesis "show if I fold?"
He is silent. No response. Khait fiddles with her hair and then decides to make the call. Her opponent shows 
for a flopped set of deuces and Anna mucks, sticks her tongue out slightly in frustration and shakes her head.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
5,500
-19,500
|
-19,500 |
A Few More Friendly Faces
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
25,000 |