Back From Break
Level 13: Blinds 1,500/3,000/3,000 BB Ante
The color-up is complete and players are back in action.
With about 40 players remaining, roughly 25 of them will leave empty handed.
2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open
Event #1: $560 Super Survivor
Day: 1
Color Up Break
End of Level 12 and players are taking 15 while the black 100 chips are colored up and removed from play.
Huynh Playing Big Stack
Level 12: Blinds 1,500/2,500/2,500 BB Ante
Kenny Huynh appears to be the chip leader, playing 170,000 as they approach the next break. That puts him second only to Michael Muniz, who leads the remaining players with 189,000.
Huynh made the final table of the 2019 Summer Poker Open Championship, finishing 5th for $69,801. Needless to say, that's the best cash on his poker resume, which is only a little more than three years long.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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189,000 | 54,000 |
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170,000 | 170,000 |
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160,000 | 160,000 |
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150,000 | -7,000 |
Rollercoaster Day for Muniz
Level 11: Blinds 1,000/2,000/2,000 BB Ante
Poker fashionista Michael Muniz had been on the climb, building an above-average stack, until he ran into some back luck and was knocked down to only 17,000.
He's managed to turn that around and after taking out Wooyang Lin with pocket aces against Lin's 
and nixing another player with the nut flush against two pair, he's up to 135,000 and again cruising among the chip leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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135,000 | 65,000 |
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Busted |
McGuinness Makes Appearance in Super
Level 10: Blinds 800/1,500/1,500 BB Ante
John McGuinness has turned up in the Super Survivor field, looking to score his first cash of the Fall Poker Open. He crushed the Borgata Poker Open back in September, with four cashes totaling nearly $200,000, including a runner-up finish in the Kick-Off. His strong run during the series pushed his lifetime earnings beyond $545,000.
The Survivor format works for him as well. He scored $5,000 in both the 2019 Spring and Summer Open Supers.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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36,000 | 36,000 |
Seubert Leads Survivors
Level 9: Blinds 600/1,200/1,200 BB Ante
Mark Seubert is the chip leader with 157,000 as Super Survivor players return from their break.
Registration has closed with an unofficial entry count of 157, which means the final 15 players will each earn $5,000 in cold, hard cash. Sixteenth place will get the residual cash of $1,145 unless the numbers change before made official.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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157,000 |
Break Time; Registration Closing
Super Survivor hopefuls are on their second break of the day and when they return to the felt, registration will close.
Chip Counts
Level 8: Blinds 500/1,000/1,000 BB Ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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85,000 | 85,000 |
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70,000 | 70,000 |
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45,000 | 45,000 |
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35,000 | 35,000 |
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31,000 | 31,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
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27,000 | 27,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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15,000 | 15,000 |
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14,000 | 14,000 |
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8,000 | 8,000 |
Wang Making it Look Easy
Level 7: Blinds 400/800/800 BB Ante
The youthful-looking Michael Wang has quite a bit of poker experience covering the previous decade, including a World Series of Poker bracelet win (2015) and two WSOP Circuit rings, both won last month in Baltimore.
Here at Borgata, the Jersey resident has two wins; one in Pot Limit Omaha (2012) and the second in Six-Max NLH (2015). If he doesn't 'survive' in this event, we will probably see him in the PLO event that starts at 3pm.
Totalling more than $2.5 million, his lifetime earnings rival those of many much older professionals.
Shnaider On a Roll
Level 6: Blinds 300/600/600 BB Ante
Oleg Shnaider played in yesterday's Event #23: $450 Big 3 Super Qualifier NLH satellite, which awarded the final 10% of players with seats in three events: Event #3: $500k GTD $560 Kick-Off NLH, Event #11: $300k GTD $400 Almighty Stack NLH, and Event #17: $1M GTD $2,700 BFPO Championship NLH.
With 45 entrants, the final four players would receive the full three event buy-in package and fifth place would get a $2,700 seat in the BFPO championship and a little extra cash.
Shnaider made it to the final four and got the full three event package, so we'll be seeing a lot of him during this series. He's on the felt today playing for another $5,000 cash which will make a nice cash cushion if he can continue his hot streak. He's cashed in two previous Super Survivors in the last couple of years, so he's quite familiar with the format.
During the 2018 Borgata Poker Open, he made it to the final table of the WPT BPO Championship NLH event, finishing 3rd for $283,341 which is of course his best live cash and accounts for most of his lifetime earnings of more than $341,000.