Santo In Charge as Purple Chip Winds Down
Event #17: $1,060 Purple Chip Bounty is now down to roughly 64 players and it is Nicholas Santo on top of the leader board with 197,500 in chips.
2019 Borgata Poker Open
Event #17: $1,060 Purple Chip Bounty
Day: 1
Long Break or Short Dinner for Bounty Hunters
The Purple Chip Bounty players are done with eight levels and getting a 30-minute break. Call it a shortened dinner break or long regular break.
Either way, when they return at about 8:50pm, registration will close.
Padda Leading Early in Purple Chip Bounty
Level 3: Blinds 100/200/200 BB Ante
The early chip leader appears to be Harpreet Padda, playing about 60,000, which is triple the starting stack.
Aubrey Williams is up to ~50,000 in early bounty action.
One interesting table in the field includes Scott Efron, Hamid Izadi, Will "the Thrill" Failla, and Mike Dentale. This one should be good for some fireworks. Efron cracked pocket kings with his 
all-in, catching an ace on the flop to double up.
Registration will remain open for a looooong time, so the entry count will continue to climb.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Event #17: $1,060 Purple Chip Bounty Has Begun!
The final preliminary event of the 2019 Borgata Poker Open is underway! This Purple Chip Bounty event puts a $500 price tag on every player’s head. Everyone has a purple chip on the table and they must surrender that bounty to the player who collects their last tournament chip.
Everyone starts with 20,000 tournament chips and levels 1-15 are 30 minutes long. Starting with level 16, they go to 40 minutes long. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of level 9 (at least 8:30pm).
Here's look at the structure:
| Level | Big Blind Ante | Blinds |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 6,000 | 3,000-6,000 |
| 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 |
| 22 | 25,000 | 15,000-25,000 |
This is a one-day event, so they’ll play until a winner is determined. This event was not on last September's BPO schedule.
Event #17: $1,060 Purple Chip Bounty
Day 1 Started