Andrew Zhu Wins Event 13 for $17,092
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After a total of 242 entries and reentries were recorded in this $300 Deeper-Stack NLHE tournament, generating a prize pool of $61,033, Andrew Zhu took down top honors along with $17,092 in winnings.
Zhu rolled through the final table in dominant fashion after entering with the chip lead, eliminating Miguel Borrero in 7th place to begin a string of knockouts that paved his path to victory.
He absorbed a bad beat or two along the way as well, first having cowboys cracked by James Boyle's big slick, and then losing with a full house to Nick Marino's straight flush.
With the poker world's elite eyeing a spot in tomorrow's $15,400 buy-in, $5 Million Guaranteed WPT World Championship event, and participating in round-the-clock satellites throughout the day trying to win their seat on the cheap, today's field was mostly filled with local grinders. Easter Sunday and another holiday celebrated by some likely culled the field even more, but nonetheless there were plenty of familiar faces in attendance looking to take their shot.
Papa Levy, Attilio Bitondo, Wendy Rubin, Philip Neiman and Emad Alabsi - all of whom final tabled earlier events on the Borgata Spring Poker Open schedule - came to play, along with regulars on the local circuit like Olga Petrovskaya, Brian Rosengarten and Armando Then. Alabsi managed to reach yet another final table after winning Event 8 for $12,629, but he fell in 6th place to add another $3,052 to his haul for the series.
. Unfortunately for him, Zhu had a dominating hand with 
, and the final board came down 
to leave him with the second-best hand.
in the small blind, and he decided to get tricky in hopes of trapping Satish Surapaneni in the big blind - but he very nearly fell into the trap himself.
for two pair.
on the river that gave him the come-from-behind victory, counterfeiting Surapaneni's two pair and sending him to the rail in 3rd place.
into the 
, Nick Marino decided to put on a show for his son Mario - who he brought to Atlantic City for the latter to play in his first poker tournament.
across the felt and Andrew Zhu c-bet, with Marino's last 720,000 coming in over the top and on the come. Zhu snapped him off with the 
for top pair and his own bevy of draws.
.
. The final board ran out 
into the 
on the 
. Fourth street brought a 