Take a Tour Around the Signature Room
A few images for you to soak in the scene here at the WPT World Championship.
A few images for you to soak in the scene here at the WPT World Championship.
The tournament is now paused for a 15-minute break.
Level: 5
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 75
A regular sight at the tournaments here at Borgata is the broad smile on the face of Tom Dobrilovic. It's usually after he's won a big pot but he'll flash a grin at you even after taking the worst of it. Dobrilovic is off to a great start here with over three times the starting stack. Dobrilovic is no flash-in-the-pan as he has over a million dollars in lifetime tournament winnings. He has no six figure paydays on his resume though and would love to change that this week.
"I was going to buy in anyway, but I won a seat," Dobrilovic told us on the way to his seat. He's probably hoping to make a deep run and win much like another local, Anthony Zinno, did recently at a World Poker Tour televised event at Borgata.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Tom Dobrilovic |
155,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
The final board read and an 11,000-chip pot was waiting to be claimed when we saw Amit Makhija fire out a bet of 7,000.
"If it takes more than two minutes, call the clock on me..." said his opponent to nobody in particular.
Finally, the man decided to respect a feared pro and laid his hand down.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mohsin Charania |
42,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
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Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jake Schindler | Busted | |
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Matt Stout | Busted | |
James Carroll | Busted | |
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Nick Schulman | Busted | |
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Having played a hand to the turn before we arrived, Tom Marchese went toe-to-toe with 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Greg Merson with a three-bet to force him off the pot.
The board read by fourth street and Merson was holding the button when Marchese led into him for 3,500.
Merson casually moved a stack forward, making it 7,100 to play, and after a long moment to contemplate his spot, Marchese put the champ to the test, three-betting to 13,500.
Having been played back at, Merson quickly laid his hand down before entering into a professional discussion with his neighbor and nemesis.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tom Marchese |
81,500
10,500
|
10,500 |
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Greg Merson |
28,800
11,775
|
11,775 |
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Here are a few updated counts from around the room.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
She Lok Wong |
109,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
Joe Kuether |
105,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
Christian Harder |
82,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Tom Marchese |
71,800
-9,700
|
-9,700 |
|
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Brian Lemke |
71,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |
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David Paredes |
69,500
-1,500
|
-1,500 |
|
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Jean Gaspard |
61,500
-4,500
|
-4,500 |
|
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Alexey Rubin
|
52,000
4,500
|
4,500 |
Noah Schwartz |
29,600
-18,900
|
-18,900 |
|
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Greg Merson |
17,500
-11,300
|
-11,300 |
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Jeff Madsen |
11,500
-56,500
|
-56,500 |
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We didn't catch the hand, but we did see a player standing up and leaving the table and a pile of chips being added to the already large stack of Scott Seiver who had flopped a set of tens to send his unlucky opponent to the rail. Seiver has past success in this event having won it in 2011. With nearly $9.5 million in lifetime tournament winnings, Seiver with a stack is probably not a sight his opponents want to see.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Scott Seiver |
195,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
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The chips are beginning to move, so here are a few more updated counts.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tom Dobrilovic |
132,000
-23,000
|
-23,000 |
Micah Raskin |
124,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
Anthony Zinno |
67,000
2,200
|
2,200 |
|
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Todd Terry |
66,000
3,575
|
3,575 |
Jonathan Little |
64,500
-500
|
-500 |
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Roland Israelashvili |
58,000
13,100
|
13,100 |
David "ODB" Baker |
53,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
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Justin Young |
43,000
500
|
500 |
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Paul Volpe |
35,800
-7,200
|
-7,200 |
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Shawn Cunix |
16,700
-4,400
|
-4,400 |
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