Event 14: $15,400 $5 Million Guaranteed WPT World Championship Day 2 | 2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open

04-23-2014 16:57 UTC-4

Player	Chips	Progress
Russell Thomas	280,000 126,000	126,000
Chris Tryba	235,000 19,000	19,000

Matt Stout	210,000 92,700	92,700
Jared Jaffee	180,000 38,700	38,700

Garrett Greer	175,000 91,600	91,600
Loni Harwood	155,000 60,000	60,000

Greg Merson	150,000 15,000	15,000

Harrison Gimbel	145,000 70,000	70,000

Joe McKeehen	138,000 24,000	24,000

Marvin Rettenmaier	135,000 45,000	45,000

Layne Flack	120,000 100,700	100,700

Mike Dentale	115,000 37,000	37,000
Mike Leah	110,000 18,500	18,500

Jeff Gross	105,000 11,000	11,000

Nick Schulman	77,000 76,000	76,000

David Tuthill	75,000 21,600	21,600
Allen Kessler	67,000 97,000	97,000
David "ODB" Baker	50,000 61,500	61,500

Matt Brady	45,000 17,300	17,300
Christian Harder	45,000 52,300	52,300

Salsberg Doubles

Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Season XI WPT Player of the Year Matt Salsberg moved all in for 32,800 in late position, and David Peters put him at risk from the small blind.

Salsberg:
Peters:

Salsberg's dominant hand held as the board rolled out , and he doubled through.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Peters	115,000

Matt Salsberg	66,000

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04-23-2014 16:44 UTC-4

Tommy Boy

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Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

We caught the tail end of a collision between World Series of Poker bracelet winners, and after consulting with a fellow member of the esteemed press corps, we can fill you in on the identity of the tournament's new hero.

Matt Waxman opened to 4,000 to start the action and Matt Glantz flatted from the button. Athanasios Polychronopoulos then three-bet to 14,000 from the small blind, with both of his fellow pros coming along to take the flop three ways.

Waxman led out for 18,700 to fold Glantz, but Polychronopoulos stuck around to take the on the turn. Polychronopoulos siezed the initiative with a 40,000 wager on fourth street, prompting a tank-call from Waxman. The river card came to
complete the board and Waxman made a 41,500 wager after deliberating for a long moment.

A long tank later saw Polychronopoulos look Waxman up, with the latter tabling for a busted bluff. Polychronopoulos - who his friends know as "Tommy" - tabled for bottom pair (and a huge pair when you really think about it).

Player	Chips	Progress
Athanasios Polychronopoulos	376,000

Matt Glantz	121,000

Matt Waxman	74,000

Tags: Athanasios Polychronopoulos Matt Glantz Matt Waxman

04-23-2014 16:42 UTC-4

Chips

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Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Corey Hochman (Cory Hochman)	305,000 15,000	15,000
She Lok Wong	285,000 84,000	84,000
Scott Seiver	200,000 5,000	5,000

Blake Bohn	147,000 13,000	13,000
Jordan Cristos	145,000 15,000	15,000

Ryan D'Angelo	123,000 84,000	84,000

Paul Volpe	92,000 23,000	23,000

Marvin Rettenmaier	90,000 5,000	5,000

Jonathan Little	86,000 24,000	24,000

David Daggett	63,000 2,000	2,000
Jean Gaspard	51,500 15,400	15,400

John Andress	43,000 22,000	22,000
Melissa Burr	37,000 5,000	5,000

04-23-2014 16:33 UTC-4

Miles Austin Drops One

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Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

With approximately 30,000 in the pot and the board showing , Miles Austin check-called a 18,500 bet from Matt Waxman. The river was the and after Austin checked again, Waxman moved all in.

Austin leaned back and placed a bottle of water on the ground next to his chair. He shuffled chips in his right hand as if he were a touring poker professional. He looked the part with a hoodie pulled low over the brim of his hat, his eyes locked in on Waxman.

Waxman, was literally that. Not moving. Looking straight down. Austin stacked the rest of his chips into one large stack and then unstacked them. Deciding he didn't want to risk his tournament life with the hand he held, he folded, and Waxman took the pot down.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Waxman	180,000 24,000	24,000

Miles Austin	58,000 32,000	32,000

Tags: Miles Austin Matt Waxman

04-23-2014 16:23 UTC-4

A Few Counts

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Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Athanasios Polychronopoulos	230,000 6,900	6,900

John Hennigan	212,000 8,000	8,000

Matt Waxman	156,000 115,000	115,000

Tom Dobrilovic	152,000 13,000	13,000
Maurice Hawkins	143,000 33,000	33,000
Matt Glantz	143,000 6,000	6,000

Amit Makhija	120,000 64,900	64,900
Will Failla	115,000 35,000	35,000

Phil Hellmuth	114,000 36,000	36,000

Chris Klodnicki	110,000 34,000	34,000

Miles Austin	90,000 4,000	4,000
Eugene Todd	87,000 13,000	13,000
Jesse Sylvia	60,000 77,500	77,500

Tom Sheets	43,000 13,200	13,200

04-23-2014 16:14 UTC-4

Byron Kaverman Leading the Way Early on Day Two

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Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Earlier today, Byron Kaverman won a huge pot off of Robert Panitch (who would bust a little later) to move above the 300,000 chip mark. Since then Kaverman has continued to add to his stack and is sitting on top of the chip counts at this time.

Kaverman is no stranger to success with nearly two million dollars in live tournament winnings including an impressive six scores of $100,000 or more including a 34th place finish at the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event for $229,281.

Player	Chips	Progress
Byron Kaverman	418,000 343,000	343,000

Robert Panitch	Busted

04-23-2014 16:06 UTC-4

Shaun Suller Busts - Mukul Pahuja Wins WPT Player of the Year

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Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Shaun Suller got the last of his chips in with and was racing against Dan Wach's . The board ran out to send Suller to the rail.

With that elimination, Mukul Pahuja has officially won the World Poker Tour Player of the Year. While most thought it was a foregone conclusion after Pahuja's deep run at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock event last week, in poker it's never over until it's over.

Now it's over.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dan Wach	160,000 28,000	28,000
Shaun Suller	Busted

04-23-2014 16:02 UTC-4

Winters is Coming

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Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

With the flop showing and 22,000 already in the pot, Thomas Winters led out for 8,000 from the big blind position.

A player in the cutoff popped it to 22,000, and Winters went into the tank for about a minute or so, before finally announcing himself all in for about 75,000 total.

The cutoff quickly took the hint and his cards went sailing into the muck, with Layne Flack clapping Winters on the back and asking us "you get that hand?" After hearing that the hand had indeed been recorded for posterity, Flack did what Flack does, making the table crack up with a quick-witted retort.

"Good," he said with his grin spreading wider. "You didn't know a Texan could act, did ya?"

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Winters	120,000 47,700	47,700

Tags: Thomas Winters Layne Flack

04-23-2014 16:00 UTC-4

Honest Abe

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Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

"YEAH, BABY!" Abraham Korotki yelled from across the Signature Room. "YEAH!"

We rushed over to see what had the 2009 Borgata Poker Open Ladies Champion all hot and bothered, and when we arrived, we saw that he had doubled through Bart Dowling.

Korotki was all in and at risk for 112,900 on a flop of with , and Dowling was drawing to a flush with . Neither the turn () or the river () produced hearts, and Korotki doubled through.