2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open

Event 9: $300 $100,000 Guaranteed Big-Stack NLHE Reentry
Day: 1
Event Info

2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
8x6x
Prize
$33,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$260
Prize Pool
$212,605
Entries
843
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Gene Mazza Eliminated in 4th Place ($14,351)

Level 31 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante
Gene Mazza - 4th Place
Gene Mazza - 4th Place

After getting through with a number of open-shoves and prelop three-bets, Gene Mazza tried again after the player with no name opened to 375,000 from the button.

Mazza three-bet jammed for his last 1.5 million and the unknown soldier tanked for about two minutes while talking himself through the hand.

"I don't want to call..." he said to Mazza. "But I think I have to here. Maybe I'll hit my man..."

While the mystery man was deliberating, Mazza put in his two sense, responding succinctly after hours of subdued silence.

"Don't double me up," he said. "I'm dangerous if you double me up."

"He speaks English!" said the man who dare not speak his name. "First thing I've heard you say in six hours other than all in."

Finally, seemingly motivated by Mazza's speech, the anonymous man made the call, showing down {6-Hearts}{6-Spades} to find himself racing against Mazza's {k-Clubs}{q-Hearts}.

The flop of {4-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{8-Hearts} came in a flash, and when it did the table's ghost had indeed hit his man, spiking a set of sevens to leave Mazza drawing dead. The {k-Hearts} came on the turn just to give Mazza a reason to always remember the forgotten man's face, and the river came {8-Spades} to make things official.

Mazza finished in 4th place for $14,351, while the man without a name moved one step closer to having his preciously guarded secret identity enter the public record on the Borgata's tournament winner website.

Player Chips Progress
Rey Mysterio Jr.
Rey Mysterio Jr.
8,500,000
1,600,000
1,600,000
Gene Mazza
Gene Mazza
Busted

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