Throughout the night here on the third flight of the $2 million guarantee opening event at the Borgata, we've watched in awe as a young man by the name of Jon Giordano put on a most impressive performance.

Giordano was seated near the PokerNews live reporting station for much of Day 1C, and every five minutes or so he would shamble up to the desk and claim a few Kleenex tissues to blow his nose. Giordano was obviously under the weather, and when we offered to let him have the box for himself, he graciously declined, saying "I actually think the walking back and forth is helping."

"How late are we going tonight?" he then asked, and when he heard that 4 a.m. local time was the expected end point, the surprised look on his ashen face said it all.

"I'm never gonna make it..." he said with a laugh. "Nope, not gonna happen."

Even though Giordano's illness forced him to rush off to the restroom to relieve himself of his lunch - an act that happened during a hand he was actually contesting - Giordano has persevered through it all. He has survived 12 levels of play thus far, and with his stack sitting around 100,000 at the moment, he very well may make it through to tomorrow's Day 2.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jon Giordano	105,000 105,000	105,000

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