Event #12: $230 Pot-Limit Omaha H/L 8B | 2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open

11-12-2019 22:16 UTC-4

Player	Chips	Progress
Marc Matz	145,000 5,000	5,000
Larry Ohalloran	115,000 115,000	115,000
James Matz	84,000 10,000	10,000
Gary Kosakowski	74,000 23,000	23,000
Raj Desai	73,000 48,500	48,500
Bill Jones	48,000 4,000	4,000
Peter Ippolito	45,000 25,000	25,000
Charles Kassin	39,000 15,000	15,000
Erik Schmidt	30,000 2,000	2,000
Alan Goldsmith	8,000 8,000	8,000

Duffy Takes a Pot from Schmidt

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Level 10 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

Kevin Duffy opened to 3,000 from the hijack, Erik Schmidt defended his big blind and the dealer spread out on the flop.

Action checked through to the turn and again to the river. Duffy bet 5,000 and Schmidt called, tabling for a full house.

Duffy quickly tabled for a bigger boat and scooped the pot, dropping Schmidt below starting stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Duffy	35,000
Erik Schmidt	18,000 -12,000	-12,000

Tags: ERik Schmidt Kevin Duffy

11-12-2019 22:31 UTC-4

Dinner Break

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Level 10 : 600/1,200, 0 ante

The remaining players will now be taking a 30-minute dinner break. The late registration period will remain open until the end of this break.

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,500

Ante: 0

11-12-2019 23:08 UTC-4

The tournament has now completed ten levels of play and the late registration period is now over. A total of 121 entry slips were sold for this event, of those, just 45 remain to battle it out for the trophy.

11-12-2019 23:19 UTC-4

Updated Chip Counts

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Level 11 : 800/1,500, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Roland Israelashvili	155,000 116,000	116,000
Marc Matz	139,000 -6,000	-6,000
Gary Kosakowski	120,000 46,000	46,000
Charles Kassin	87,000 48,000	48,000
Kevin Duffy	70,000 35,000	35,000
Larry Gold	58,000 3,000	3,000
Bill Jones	53,000 5,000	5,000
Raj Desai	49,000 -24,000	-24,000
James Matz	48,000 -36,000	-36,000

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 0

11-12-2019 23:39 UTC-4

Desai Grabs a Triple

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 0 ante

Raj Desai moved his remaining 22,300 into the middle and found two callers, John Tallman being one of them.

Raj Desai:
Opponent:
John Tallman:

The board rolled out [kc10c3d3j10d] and Desai's rivered dimes took down the pot, tripling up. Tallman lost the side pot as well, dropping his stack by around 30,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Tallman	120,000 28,000	28,000
Raj Desai	69,000 20,000	20,000

Tags: John Tallman

11-12-2019 23:50 UTC-4

Prizepool and Payouts Announced

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 0 ante

The tournament drew 121 entries, accumulating $23,474 towards the prize pool and a total of 18 will be finding a payday, taking home $352 for a min-cash with the eventual champion pulling in $6,927 for their first-place finish.

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 0