2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open

Borgata Winter Poker Open Side Events

Borgata Winter Poker Open Side Events

Day 6 Completed

Event 99: Done Deal

It's a wrap here in Event 99.
It's a wrap here in Event 99.

The remaining four players have agree to a deal, and play is done for the night. Trevor Deeter, Toby Kasser, Bryan Rosengarten and Mohamed Eid will have found an agreeable way to split $43,142. The players were working with extremely short stacks, as the big blind was 160,000, meaning only about 60 total big blinds were in play.

Michael Tauman topped a field of 327 to win a $34,130 first-place prize here in the $450 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold'em at Borgata Winter Poker Open. He defeated a final table that included last year's Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event winner Andy Hwang, who finished third. Tauman cracked the {a-}{a-} of Mark Rebuck heads up to finish a heads-up match that lasted less than 30 minutes.

Tags: Bryan RosengartenMark RebuckMichael TaumanMohamed EidToby KasserTrevor Deeter

Event 99: Simon Taberham Eliminated in Fifth Place ($4,327)

Simon Taberham - Fifth Place
Simon Taberham - Fifth Place

Bryan Rosengarten pushed all in from the button, and Simon Taberham called from the big blind. Rosengarten's {a-Clubs}{k-Clubs} outran Taberham's {10-Hearts}{10-Clubs} when the board came {k-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}. Taberham was left with a few big blinds.

He got the last of his chips in from the small blind after action folded to him, and Mohamed Eid called.

Eid: {10-Clubs}{9-Spades}
Taberham: {a-Spades}{q-Diamonds}

"There it is," Toby Kasser said as the flop came {10-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}{7-Spades}.

"There it's not," he said when the {q-Clubs} turned.

"There it is again," he said when the {9-Clubs} river gave Eid two pair.

Tags: Bryan RosengartenMohamed EidSimon TaberhamToby Kasser

Event 99: Lauren Kepple Eliminated in Seventh Place ($2,860)

Lauren Kepple - Seventh Place
Lauren Kepple - Seventh Place

Action folded to Lauren Kepple's button, and she shipped all in for 985,000. Mohamed Eid made the call from the big blind.

Eid: {a-Clubs}{8-Clubs}
Kipple: {q-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}

The flop came {2-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}, giving Kipple a flush draw. A red card arrived on the turn, but it was the {3-Hearts}, no help to Kepple. The {6-Spades} fell on the river, and the last woman in the field headed for the payout desk.

Tags: Lauren KeppleMohamed Eid

Event 99: Pressure Mounting

Blinds just went up to 60,000-120,000 with a 20,000 ante. Every stack at the table appears to be significantly below 20 big blinds, so players are under significant pressure to gain chips.