2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open

Event 14: $15,400 $5 Million Guaranteed WPT World Championship
Day: 2
Event Info

2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
$1,350,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$15,000
Prize Pool
$4,852,400
Entries
328
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25

Harwood Smokes Two

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante
Loni Harwood
Loni Harwood

After two recent casualties took to Twitter for a quick postmortem of their respective bustout hands, we learned that Loni Harwood just chipped up in a major way by busting fellow pros Chris Moorman and Alex Rocha.

We stopped by for a quick chat with Harwood, who burst onto the poker scene last summer with an incredible World Series of Poker performance, winning her first gold bracelet and contending for WSOP Player of the Year honors.

According to Harwood, she opened to 2,800 from under the gun and called when Alex Rocha three-bet jammed for his last 16,000. Harwood found herself dominated with {k-Clubs}{q-Clubs} against Rocha's {A-}{K-}, but "Luscious Lon" found the lady she needed on the turn.

Soon afterward, Harwood went toe-to-toe with the best player to ever grind the virtual felt, opening to 3,000 before engaging in a raising war with Moorman. He popped it to 6,800, Harwood four-bet to 19,000 and Moorman five-bet shipped for his last 75,000 or so with Harwood making the call to put him at risk.

Harwood: {10-}{10-}
Moorman: {A-}{k-}

The board ran out clean for Harwood's tens and with that she sent two players to the rail while building a big stack early on in the day.

Player Chips Progress
Loni Harwood us
Loni Harwood
WSOP 2X Winner
189,000 73,000
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Busted
Alex Rocha us
Alex Rocha
Busted

Tags: Loni HarwoodChris MoormanAlex Rocha