Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open
Event #11: $400 Almighty Stack
Day: 1c
Ludwick Chipping Up in the Back
Level 11
: 1,200/2,500, 2,500 ante
Back on Table 23, we found Jordan Ludwick, who has chipped up nicely to 430,000.
We also found Doug Shirk with a fresh starting stack after re-entering and Sirous Jamshidi, both on the table with Ludwick.
Way back in the 2012 Borgata Summer Poker Open, Ludwick won the $400 Deepstack Double Play NLH event, earning $58,443. That remains is best live cash.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
430,000 | |
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
|
92,500 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,200/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Nooralian Takes Out Two on Three
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
On the aforementioned tough Table 3:
Doug Shirk moved in for his last 33,600 under-the-gun, got a flat from Steve Nooralian, then Gary Gelman (bb) moved in for 66,200 total. Nooralian called that as well and it was three players all-in pre-flop.
Gelman: 
Shirk: 
Nooralian: 
The board came 
and Nooralian improved to a full house, scooping both main and side pots and sending both opponents out.
Gelman re-entered and was back, drawing the same seat on Table 3, just a couple of hands later, with a fresh 100,000 Almighty stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
450,000 | 185,000 |
|
100,000 | 27,700 |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
Siddiqui Staying Positive
Level 9
: 800/1,600, 1,600 ante
Faisal Siddiqui was felted by Greg Fishberg during the last level of Flight B yesterday, taking a tough beat with 
against 
.
He's back in action today and according to his Twitter feed, is keeping a positive outlook on his third try.
Tough Table Three
Level 9
: 800/1,600, 1,600 ante
Table 3 is a tough draw and there's not been a lot of turnover there, so no one is building big stacks.
Steve Nooralian leads the 10-handed table, but he's having trouble extracting chips from this lineup. In addition to Aubrey Williams two seats to his left, the far end of the table includes Adam Agaev, Jennifer Noone, Gary Gelman and Doug Shirk.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
265,000 | 75,000 |
|
|
195,000 | 195,000 |
|
95,000 | 95,000 |
|
92,000 | 92,000 |
|
|
72,300 | 72,300 |
|
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 1,600
Fisher Triples Up Before Break
Level 8
: 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
Late in Flight B yesterday, Don Fisher took a tough beat, losing to a one-outer when his set-over-set was beat by Soukha Kachittavong's quads.
Just before the break, he was down to his last 9,000 and all-in from the button. Seat 1 raised to 18,000 and a limper in the middle jammed to isolate. Heads-up, Fisher's 
was actually ahead of his opponent's 
. The runout of 
paired Fisher's kicker and he tripled up to 30,000.
That was the end of Level 8 and players are taking 15.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
Norm! Welcome Back!
Level 8
: 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
Noman Michalek is making his return to Borgata in today's Almighty Stack Flight C, after a two year absence.
It was about two and a half years ago that he came so close to winning in this event. In the 2017 Spring Poker Open $400 Almighty Stack NLH event, he finished second out of 1,764 entrants, earning $56,148 (his best live cash). The winner of that event was Manuel Jaime, earning nearly $77,000.
In the intervening years, Michalek cashed four times at the 2018 WSOP and again posted four cashes at the 2019 WSOP.
His lifetime earnings have topped $455,000. Not bad, given that he's only been booking tournament cashes for a little more than nine years.
Not gonna lie coming back to Borgata since last being here two years ago, I missed this place.
— Norman Michalek (@norm_michalek)
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
145,000 | 145,000 |