Event #4: $500 Black Chip Bounty
Day 1 Started
Event #4: $500 Black Chip Bounty
Day 1 Started
The fourth Main Event tournament and the third trophy event of the 2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open, Event #4: $500 Black Chip Bounty Deepstack NLH with $100,000 Guarantee, will kick off at 1 p.m. local time in the Signature Room.
Last year, this tournament surpassed its guarantee by attracting 416 runners and creating a $141,232 prize pool. Sam Lopes came out on top after a heads-up deal with Soukha Kachittavong, resulting in a score of $31,912 for Lopes.
Players will start with 25,000 in chips and late registration and re-entries will remain open until the start of Level 9. Levels will last 45 minutes each for the duration of this two-day event.
Play will continue until 18 remain or 2am (which is usually the case). Day 2 is slated for Saturday, November 9th, at 12 noon, at which time the Day 1 survivors will return to determine a winner.
Here’s a look at the structure:
Level | Big Blind Ante | Blinds |
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1 | - | 100-100 |
2 | 100 | 100-100 |
3 | 200 | 100-200 |
4 | 300 | 200-300 |
5 | 400 | 200-400 |
6 | 600 | 300-600 |
7 | 800 | 400-800 |
8 | 1,000 | 500-1,000 |
9 | 1,200 | 600-1,200 |
10 | 1,500 | 800-1,500 |
11 | 2,000 | 1,000-2,000 |
12 | 2,500 | 1,500-2,500 |
13 | 3,000 | 1,500-3,000 |
14 | 4,000 | 2,000-4,000 |
15 | 5,000 | 2,500-5,000 |
16 | 5,000 | 3,000-5,000 |
17 | 8,000 | 4,000-8,000 |
18 | 10,000 | 5,000-10,000 |
19 | 12,000 | 6,000-12,000 |
20 | 15,000 | 8,000-15,000 |
21 | 20,000 | 10,000-20,000 |
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Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
As we pick up the Black Chip Bounty NLH action in the Signature Room we see a familiar face stacking chips.
Borgata regular Attilio Bitondo is chipping up here in the early levels.
He just added another pot to his growing chip stacks and is one of the first players to cross the century chip mark.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Attilio Bitondo | 105,000 |
We caught up to the heads up action on the board.
There was already about 14,000 in the main pot and Leonard "LJ" Sande fired out a bet of 3,600 and his opponent called.
Sande table and his opponent fired his hand face down into the muck.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Leonard Sande | 40,000 |
The Event #4 $500 Black Chip Bounty NLH players are now on a 15-minute break. The continues to grow and we are approaching 400 entries.
There's still plenty of time to get in on the action as tournament registration and re-entry will remain open until the start of level nine.
Level: 7
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
Rick Rossetti raised to 1,800 from middle position and Jason Pardy re-raised to 6,000 from the button. It folded back to Rossetti who called and they went heads up to the flop.
Both players checked and the turn brought the . Again both players knuckled the felt and the completed the board.
Rossetti tossed out a bet of 5,000 and Pardy quickly called. "Jacks" Rossetti announced turning over and Pardy showed to take the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jason Pardy | 65,000 | |
Rick Rossetti | 35,000 |