Event #3: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off
Day 1c Started
2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open
Event #3: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off
Day: 1c
Flight C of the $500 GTD Kick-Off Begins at 10am!
Day 3 of the 2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open gets underway at an early hour today — 10am — with the third of four starting flights of the $500,000 Guaranteed Kick-Off, Event #3: Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em.
The first two flights ran yesterday and saw a combined total of 453 entrants take to the felt, with only about 70 of them finding a bag at the end of 15 levels.
Borgata tournament regular She Lok "Gary" Wong bagged the biggest stack between flights A & B with 539,000 chips locked and loaded for Day 2. He'll get to take today off from tournament play and rest up for Friday.
Today's two flights should be significantly larger than yesterday's and with 453 entries, they're already more than half-way to covering the guarantee!
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
Flight C Off and Running!
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
The third starting flight of Event #3: $560 Deep Stack NLH is catching air here in the Signature Room. As with all the starting flights, players get 25,000 chips to start and all levels on Day 1 are 30 minutes long. They’ll play through Level 15, then bag up for the night.
Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of level 13 (about 4:45pm for Flight C). This is also a Best Stack Forward event, meaning players who bag chips in any flight can play a later flight without automatically forfeiting the chips already bagged. Players who manage to bag in more than one starting flight will forfeit all but the largest stack, which they will take into Day 2 on Friday at noon.
The final flight begins tonight at 6pm.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 100
Signature Room Filling Up
Level 2
: 100/100, 100 ante
All 26 tables in Borgata's Signature Room are in action, which means we'll begin overflowing to tables in the Poker Room.
There are lots of players firing again in this flight that failed to bag in Flights A and B yesterday, plus lot of new players arriving to take their shot at the half-million dollar guarantee on this event.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
Poker is not Just for the Young-Guns
Level 3
: 100/200, 200 ante
Proving that poker is a great equalizer, Attilio Bitondo is on the felt (again) this morning. He fired yesterday, but failed to get chips in a bag.
At the age of 91, he's proven that he can hold his own with the much younger opponents. He won a WSOP Circuit ring in March of 2018, when he was 89, just a few months shy of his 90th birthday. He set and still holds the record as the oldest-ever winner of a WSOP Circuit event.
Dever Starts BFPO Series Strong
Level 3
: 100/200, 200 ante
Cathy Dever opened her 2019 BFPO account with a $5,000 score in the Event #1: $560 Super Survivor NLH on Tuesday, giving herself a nice bankroll boost at the start of this 18-day series.
She's all smiles today and back in action, looking for that elusive bag awarded to players who still have chips at the end of Level 15.
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300