2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open
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, Roland Israelashvili checked it over to Joe McKeehen, who tossed in a baby blue (5,000). Israelashvili let it go and McKeehen took the pot.
McKeehen raised to 6,500 on the next hand and got no action, collecting the blinds and antes. He's up to about 280,000.
There was a flop that showed ![]()
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on the board and the pot contained 55,000. Paul Volpe led out, putting 18,500 into the middle and Michael Stashin quickly called.
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peeled off on the turn and both players then checked to the
river card. Volpe tapped the table and Stashin moved his 54,000 stack in the middle.
Volpe folded, Stashin showed his cards to the player next to him as he mucked his hand. Volpe asked what he had and Stashin said ace-nine as he stacked the chips.
These folks have busted out of the Championship event and many of them have relocated to the Purple Chip Bounty, playing across the aisle in the back of the Poker Room.
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Denise Pratt was sharing Table 14 with She Lok Wong before it broke and managed to liberate some of his chips.
She's up to ~280,000 and now on Table 12 with Josias Santos, Pal Zagreda, James Lillis, Renata Colache, Joe McKeehen, and Dan DiZenzo. That's another tough table, but it should break before the end of the next level.
The turned board showed ![]()
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and there was around 95,000 in the pot. Action checked to Kevin Javier, he bet 45,500 and only Faisal Siddiqui called to see the
river card.
Both players checked the river, Javier showed ![]()
for a rivered pair of aces after missing his flush draw and Siddiqui tabled ![]()
, giving him two pair.
"You have no idea how happy I was when you checked the river," Said Siddiqui as he scooped in the pot.
When Table 14 broke, She Lok Wong got moved to Table 11 and is now sitting on the right of Paul Volpe. Volpe is a Day 2 entrant, so he started today with 40,000 and has already more than quintupled his stack. Wong started the day with 101,600 and has quadrupled his chips.
Now they're battling each other for chips with a tough lineup, including Nenad Cvetkovic, Rick Lee, Michael Vela, Anthony Garofalo, and Jeffrey Colpitts.
The flop read ![]()
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and the pot contained about 40,000 when Ricky Guan found the rest of his chips go into the middle, totaling 48,000. Carlos Guerro hooked him up and the two tabled their hands with Guan at risk.
Ricky Guan: ![]()
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Carlos Guerrero: ![]()
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The
turn and
river missed Guerrero as Guan pulled in the pot with his ace-high, doubling through Guerrero.