Event #99: Photos From the Floor
Below is a selection of photos of players with some of the bigger post-dinner stacks in Event #99:
Below is a selection of photos of players with some of the bigger post-dinner stacks in Event #99:
Carless "G.I. Joe" Boatwright raised it up after a few players called to his blind. One player on the button made the call, and Boatwright announced a dark check. His opponent moved all in dark, and the dealer rolled out . Boatwright called.
Boatwright:
Button:
Both players had seen great flops for their hands despite starting with mediocre holdings. A changed nothing on the turn, but the river was a , completing Boatwright's straight.
Andy Hwang fired 920,000 on the river in a recent pot with the board reading . Mark Rebuck announced a call, and Hwang confidently flipped over . Rebuck mucked, and Hwang has about 7.8 million.
Blinds are currently 120,000-240,000 with a 30,000 ante.
Monro Secor shipped over a raise with and ran into the of Michael Tauman. He was drawing dead by the turn, and the players are three-handed with the following counts:
Player | Stack |
---|---|
Andy Hwang | 5,000,000 |
Michael Tauman | 7,000,000 |
Mark Rebuck | 4,000,000 |
Mark Rebuck folded the button, and Michael Tauman raised to 600,000 from the small blind. Andy Hwang pushed all in for about 3.9 million, and Tauman called.
Tauman:
Hwang:
Hwang was dominated, but he picked up some help with a straight draw on the flop. A turn kept Tauman in the lead.
"Wheel card," Hwang called.
The dealer burned and turned a , however, and Tauman enters heads-up play with a sizable chip lead.
Mark Rebuck has 4.5 million, while Michael Tauman has about 11 million.
Mark Rebuck called immediately after Michael Tauman pushed all in from the button.
Tauman:
Rebuck:
The community cards were , giving Rebuck two pair and a double.
A few hands later, Tauman min-raised from the button and then called a reraise to 1.2 million from Rebuck. The flop came , and Rebuck checked. Tauman bet, and Rebuck check-raised all in. Tauman called with for trips, while Rebuck held for an overpair. He didn't improve on the final two streets.
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 of Mark Rebuck heads up to finish a heads-up match that lasted less than 30 minutes.
Toby Kasser, under the gun, fired 45,000 into two players who had called his preflop raise. The player to his left decided he liked the flop enough to call, while the other player thought for a bit before folding in the cutoff. The two players remaining then checked through the and , and Kasser showed for top pair. His opponent tossed into the middle face up.
"I should have called you both," said the third player who evidently would have had the winner.
Blinds are currently at 5,000-10,000 with a 1,000 ante, and 47 players remain.
Jason Rosenberg got all in preflop against Joseph Stiers.
Rosenberg:
Stiers:
Nothing higher than a nine hit the board, and Jason Rosenberg shipped all of his chips to one of the players with whom he recently shared a final table in the Pot-Limit Omaha event. Stiers has about 580,000.