Event #17: $2,700 Championship Day 1c | 2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open

11-18-2019 17:10 UTC-4

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Dodd	82,000
Vivian Leslie	74,000
Gregory Fishberg	70,000 17,000	17,000
Michael Wang	70,000

Ryan McKnight	50,000
Sam Taylor	45,000 19,000	19,000
Patrick Ibrahim	42,000 -10,100	-10,100
Michael Bonita	40,000
Nick Pupillo	40,000

Mike Linster	39,000

Joe McKeehen	26,000 26,000	26,000

Pratt Brought Reinforcements

Kaelaine Minton

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

Denise Pratt with Abstrakt Renegade Roller from Fortnite

Denise Pratt was the last woman remaining out of 3,570 entries in the $2 Million GTD 2017 Borgata Poker Open Kick-Off DeepStack NLH event. She eventually busted out in 28th place, earning $5,826.

Her lifetime earnings have topped $197,000 and her most recent reported cash was in this summer's WSOP Main Event, where she finished 624th of 8,569 runners for $22,190.

Today she's brought her Abstrakt Renegade Roller Fortnite action figure to guard her cards and chips. We'll see if he was the right choice from her action figure collection when they bag up chips at the end of Level 8.

Player	Chips	Progress
Denise Pratt	42,000 7,000	7,000

Tags: Denise Pratt

11-18-2019 16:51 UTC-4

Bolte Drops Otti Out Early

MartianNews

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

The flop showed and there was around 4,000 in the pot when Robert Bolte bet 3,000. Olamide Otti raised to 12,000 and Bolte moved all in, Otti called for his remaining 28,000 stack.

Olamide Otti:
Robert Bolte:

The turn and river failed to help Otti as he was eliminated by the full house of Bolte.

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Bolte	71,000
Olamide Otti	Busted

Tags: Olamide Otti Robert Bolte

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

11-18-2019 16:24 UTC-4

Break Time

MartianNews

Level 4 : 200/300, 300 ante

The players will now be taking a 15-minute break.

11-18-2019 16:17 UTC-4

Assorted Chip Counts

MartianNews

Level 4 : 200/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Joseph Cashen	78,000 -37,000	-37,000
Roland Israelashvili	77,000 77,000	77,000

Renata Colache	75,000 30,000	30,000
Rick Lee	74,700 52,700	52,700
Jon Borenstein	60,000 20,000	20,000
Michael Stashin	60,000 60,000	60,000
Gregory Fishberg	53,000 53,000	53,000
Timothy Little	47,000 -25,000	-25,000
Qi Hu	46,000 46,000	46,000
Gregory Nerenberg	41,000 41,000	41,000
Mike Dentale	40,000 28,000	28,000
Nick Palma	39,000 39,000	39,000
Joseph Couden	31,000 31,000	31,000
Adam Zeltser	28,000 28,000	28,000
Peter Zarriello	21,000 21,000	21,000

11-18-2019 16:09 UTC-4

Early Chip Leader

Kaelaine Minton

Level 4 : 200/300, 300 ante

Xiang "Alex" Lin has jumped out to an early chip lead, playing about 170,000 before the second break of the flight.

In just the last two years, Lin has posted nearly $100,000 in tournament earnings, including a win in the 2018 Borgata Summer Poker Open $300 Deepstack NLH event for $19,269.

He's got a tough table, though. He's seated with Jon Borenstein on his immediate left and Brian Altman a few seats further down.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alex Lin	170,000
Brian Altman	66,000

Jon Borenstein	40,000

Tags: Alex Lin Brian Altman Jon Borenstein

11-18-2019 15:45 UTC-4

Yamron & Ludwick Talking Sports

Kaelaine Minton

Level 4 : 200/300, 300 ante

Bruce Yamron and Jordan Ludwick are spending their time between hands discussing sports betting.

New Jersey legalized sports betting this year, Borgata opened their Sports Book back in the Spring, then this Summer debuted the new Moneyline Bar & Book. Right across the aisle from the Poker Room, Moneyline features a 40-foot wide LED video wall and interactive gaming kiosks.

For those too busy to walk over and place a bet at the windows or kiosks, there's also online sports betting. Check out https://www.oddschecker.com/us/free-bets/borgata to see how you can bet online and get a risk-free sports bet!

Tags: Bruce Yamron Jordan Ludwick

Level: 4

Blinds: 200/300

Ante: 300

11-18-2019 15:09 UTC-4

Barkoff is Back

Kaelaine Minton

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

Ken Barkoff put on a commanding performance at the final table of Event #11: $400 Almighty Stack NLH a few days go, claiming first place and $86,364 in a three-way deal in that $300,000 GTD event.

His payout was just about $1,000 shy of the $87,443 first-place prize that Soukha Kachittavong claimed in the seven-way deal that concluded the $500,000 GTD Kick-Off Event.

Tags: Ken Barkoff Soukha Kachittavong