Event #17: $2,700 Championship
Day 1b Started
2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open
Event #17: $2,700 Championship
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open
Buy-in
$2,700
Entries
511
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Entries
98
Players Left
43
Welcome to Day 1b of the Borgata Fall Poker Open $2,700 Championship
The flagship tournament of the 2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open, the $1 Million Guaranteed $2,700 Championship NLH event, continues today at 11 a.m. with the second of three starting flights.
Here's the remaining daily schedule for the Championship:
Flight B - 11 a.m. Sunday, November 17th
Flight C - 11 a.m. Monday, November 18th
Day 2 - 12 noon Tuesday, November 19th
Day 3 - 12 noon Wednesday, November 20th
Day 4 - 2 p.m. Thursday, November 21th
Players start with 40,000 in tournament chips and late registration and re-entries will remain open through the break at the end of Level 10. Levels 1-10 are 60 minutes each, while Levels 11-16 will last 75 minutes. Days 3 and 4 will see the levels go up to 90 minutes. All Day 1 flights will play a total of eight levels, which means registration remains open two levels into Day 2.
This is also a best stack forward event, which means players do not automatically forfeit bagged chips if they play a subsequent flight. Any player who bags more than once will take their biggest stack into Day 2.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
BFPO Championship Flight B is Underway!
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Flight B is off and running here in the Poker Room! With registration open all day, we'll see players coming and going all throughout the eight levels they'll be playing.
Yesterday's Flight A saw 62 players take their shot and of those, about half managed to bag chips at the end of Level 8. That makes the average stack about 80,000. Jonathan Hanner managed to accumulate more than 201,000 chips by the end of play, making him the chip leader, so far, of those already punching their tickets to Day 2.
Gerassi Jams on the River
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Two players got to the river with a board reading 
and about 12,000 in the pot.
David Gerassi jammed for about 3x the pot, forcing his opponent to fold. Gerassi collected the pot and just for fun, showed just the 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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47,000 |
Update Your Own Chip Count Using the PokerNews MyStack App!
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
PokerNews has activated the MyStack App for this event, allowing you to directly adjust your chip counts in our live reporting blog using your iPhone or Android phone.
You can download the app for iPhone or Android now to get started. Then, create a new PokerNews account or update your current one to start updating your status immediately. Your followers can see all the live action that you're involved in.
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Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Championship Satellite Sunday
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
The demand for satellites, aka "Qualifiers", into these larger buy-in events is very high, from both the tournament professional and the recreational poker player.
Borgata Poker always keeps the players' interests in mind, with two Championship Qualifiers on the schedule today:
4 p.m. Event #32: $270 + 30 BFPO Championship Qualifier NLH Re-Entry - approximately 1 in 10 entrants earns a Championship entry
7 p.m. Event #33: $540 + 60 BFPO Championship Qualifier NLH Re-Entry - approximately 1 in 5 entrants earns a Championship entry
2015 BFPO Championship Winner in Action
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Mike Dentale is a fixture on the felt here at Borgata, but the Brooklyn businessman also travels the country playing tournaments as well.
He has three Borgata titles to his credit and one of those was in the 2015 Borgata Fall Poker Open. He won the Championship event that year, topping a field of 557 entries to claim first place and $336,331.
With lifetime tournament earnings of more than $1.98 million, reported over the last 12 years or so, he's proven that he knows the poker business as well as the window business he runs back home.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
60,000 |
Busquet Makes BFPO Debut
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Olivier Busquet is making his 2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open debut here today in Flight B of the Championship event.
The traveling poker pro has titles from around the world, but his first big win was right here at Borgata. During the 2009 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open, he won the $3,500 Championship event, emerging victorious from a field of 1,018 entries to take the top prize of $925,514.
Since then, he's gone on to amass nearly $9 million in tournament earnings.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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40,000 | |
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