Event #14: $1,090 Six-Max NLH
Day 1 Started
Event #14: $1,090 Six-Max NLH
Day 1 Started
While Day 2 of the Almighty Stack continues in the Poker Room, a new tournament is slated to kick off at 1 p.m. in the Signature Room.
Event #14: $100,000 GTD $1,090 Six-Max NLH is a two-day tournament and will start players with 20,000 in chips. Late registration and re-entries will be available through the break at the end of Level 10. Levels 1-8 will last 30 minutes and after that will switch to 45 minutes in length. At the final table, they'll jump one more time to one-hour levels.
Last year, this tournament seated 112 entrants, which resulted in a $108,640 prize pool. Stephen Gerber of Englewood, New Jersey, claimed first place and $28,000 in a heads-up deal with Stephen Song.
Here's a look at the structure:
Level | Big Blind Ante | Blinds |
---|---|---|
1 | - | 100-100 |
2 | 100 | 100-100 |
3 | 200 | 100-200 |
4 | 300 | 200-300 |
5 | 400 | 200-400 |
6 | 500 | 300-500 |
7 | 600 | 300-600 |
8 | 800 | 400-800 |
9 | 1,000 | 500-1,000 |
10 | 1,200 | 600-1,200 |
11 | 1,500 | 800-1,500 |
12 | 2,000 | 1,000-2,000 |
13 | 2,500 | 1,500-2,500 |
14 | 3,000 | 1,500-3,000 |
15 | 4,000 | 2,000-4,000 |
16 | 5,000 | 3,000-5,000 |
17 | 6,000 | 3,000-6,000 |
18 | 8,000 | 4,000-8,000 |
19 | 10,000 | 5,000-10,000 |
20 | 12,000 | 6,000-12,000 |
21 | 15,000 | 8,000-15,000 |
Level 1: Blinds 100/100
The SixMax NLH event always kicks off Championship weekend here at Borgata and they’re now underway. This event serves as a great warm-up for players planning to play the Championship and the big buy-in draws the serious pros.
We should also see the number of entries climb throughout the registration period as players bust out of the Almighty and jump into this event. It's a two-day tournament, so players who make day two will return at 12 noon Saturday for the finale.
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Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
As the SixMax plays the last level before dinner break, it appears that WSOP Main Event winner Joe McKeehen is the chip leader, playing roughly 150,000.
Although it's easy to lose them among his numerous titles and more than $16 million in earnings, McKeehen also has four titles won here at Borgata.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Joe McKeehen
|
150,000 |
Victor Ramdin is a late registrant in this event, entering almost immediately after cashing out of the Almighty Stack.
He made the money in that event and is trying to go back-to-back with another score in the SixMax. Never even occurred to him to take the evening off from poker.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Victor Ramdin | 17,000 |
Level 10 is done and SixMax'ers are gone for a one hour dinner break.
Play will resume at about 8:10pm and at that time, registration will close.
Thanks to a late surge in the last level before dinner, David Jackson is the dinner time chip leader. Here are some other chip counts for the Sixers.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
David Jackson
|
245,000 | |
Joe McKeehen
|
164,000 | 14,000 |
Michael Wang
|
102,000 | |
Mike Dentale | 86,000 | |
Michael Malinconico | 85,000 | |
Gilberto Taveras-Garcia | 84,000 | |
Victor Ramdin | 50,000 | 33,000 |
Ketan Pandya | 45,000 | |
Jane Hitchcock | 40,000 | |
Josias Santos | 32,000 | |
Michael Marder | 19,000 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,500
Ante: 1,500