Break Time
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Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
The field is now milling about and searching for the restrooms as we enter a 15-minute break.
2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open
Event 15: $200,000 Guarantee Six-Max NLHE Re-Entry
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$361,810
Entries
373
Level
26
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
4,000
Player Count
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
There are now just 84 players left with chips to work with, and the average stack at this point sits just north of 88,000.
Ronit Chamani Takes Huge Pot From Zohair Karim
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Zohair Karim raised to 2,700 holding the button and Ronit Chamani three-bet to 6,100 in defense of her big blind.
The flop fell 
after Karim flatted and Chamani c-bet for 6,300, a wager which Karim reraised to 17,500. A smooth-call by Chamani brought the 
to the table on the turn, and both players checked the scare card to see the 
complete the board on the river.
Chamani then fired out a big bet of 19,000 or so and Karim quickly made the call.
Showdown:
Chamani: 
Karim: 
(X)
Chamani tabled aces full and the enormous pot was pushed her way, while Karim flashed his four to show that she had outdrawn him after he flopped trips. With the win, Chamani becomes one of the bigger stacks in the room, while Karim drops back down to below average.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
124,800 | 124,800 |
|
63,000 | -50,400 |
Andy Hwang Sends a Player Packing
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
We saw a player stand to make his exit from the table and his stack being slid to Andy Hwang, so we headed over to take a look at the carnage.
Hwang had gotten the better of a set-over-set confrontation when his 
connected on the 
board. His opponent held 
, and it appeared that the money all went in on the turn after he found a double belly-buster straight draw.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
104,000 | 27,500 |
End Times
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
The end times for Cotton Snuffer just arrived, and to hear him tell the tale he met a grisly demise.
Snuffer let us know that he went busto when his 
took on two short stacks who both held 
, with an ace in the window cutting the man known as Heisenberg's stack down to size.
He was eventually put down like a rabid dog when he lost a coin flip on the river, with his falling short to 
when a jack fell on fifth street.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Updated Chip Counts
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Here is the latest round of chip counts from around the room.
Joey Couden has emerged as our likely chip leader with 94 players left, as he holds a stack of nearly 220,000 for more than three times the average at the moment.
Seniors event runner-up Natale Kuey also owns a big stack with 155,000, while Joe Mckeehen - who took down Event 3 here for a $69,808 score less than a week ago - holds about 145,000 to put himself in position for another deep run.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
217,600 | 217,600 |
|
173,900 | -36,100 |
|
155,000 | -11,000 |
|
145,800 | 79,800 |
|
121,000 | 4,200 |
|
|
113,400 | 18,600 |
|
85,400 | 21,900 |
|
67,900 | 47,900 |
|
32,700 | -6,900 |
|
|
24,500 | -25,000 |
Take Me to Your Leaders
Below is a selection of photos of players who are among the big stacks in the Six-Max:
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Natale Kuey Lets Andy Hwang Get There
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
We watched Andy Hwang reraise over the top of Natale Kuey's 6,000 bet before the flop, and when Kuey called the 14,700 bet we stuck around to see the fireworks firsthand.
The flop rolled out 
and it appeared to be an action board, but both Hwang and Kuey checked down to take the 
on the turn.
Two taps of the table later and we were off to the river, which came 
and prompted Kuey to check for a third time. Hwang was done with the soft stuff though, and he used two hands to move a bet of 7,400 into the middle. Kuey wasted little time in making the call, but he mucked even quicker when he saw Hwang table 
for a rivered set of kings.
The play in this hand is indicative of that exhibited by the rest of the field, for the most part, as the average stack sits at just about 67,000 big blinds at the 500-1,000-100 level of play.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
166,000 | -28,700 |
|
|
76,500 | 28,200 |
Oh to Be Queen for a Day
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
There are now just 19 tables left in this six-handed tournament, meaning 114 players have a chip and a chair.
The average stack at this point in the proceedings stands at 65,400, and we've spotted a few big stacks floating around out there, including Alex Queen, a young tourney grinder who has already accumulated more than $1 million in live earnings.
Queen's biggest score to date came right here at the Borgata, when he took down top honors at the 2010 Spring Poker Open's $3,200 buy-in Main Event for a $355,535 payday. That six-figure score was no fluke either, as Queen went on to final table a $1,500 NLHE event at the 2011 World Series of Poker - finishing 6th for $111,341 - on his way to the coveted million dollar earning mark.