Kevin Blewitt opened from the button and David Stefanski three-bet from the big blind. Blewitt moved all in for 438,000 and Stefanski called, putting Blewitt at risk.
Kevin Blewitt:
David Stefanksi:
The board ran out and Stefanski's jacks failed to catch up, sending a complete double to Blewitt.
The flop showed and there was around 110,000 in the pot when Ryan Hohner moved all in for under 300,000. Jack Kashishian was the only person to call and the two tabled their cards.
Ryan Hohner:
Jack Kashishian:
Kashishian was ahead with his overpair of aces and needed to dodge some outs to take down the pot. The landed on the turn and Kashishian's aces still held the lead. A landed on the river and changed nothing as Kashishian pulled in the pot with his two pair, sending his opponent to the payour desk.
Mike McGuinness has an incredible eight tournament wins here at Borgata, but all came in non-Open series one-day events.
His brother John McGuinness has only four wins at Borgata, two of which came during Open series events.
Their tournament earnings were comparable, until earlier this series when John took second place in a heads-up deal that ended the $1 Million GTD Deep Stack Kick Off event, garnering him $176,080 and pushing his lifetime earnings past the $500,000 mark.
"There's just no living with him now," said Mike.
Both brothers are still alive in this event with more than just bragging rights on the line. As it stands now, John is short-stacked with about 30 big blinds and Mike is sitting on about 1.4 million and among the chip leaders.
WPT Champ Victor Ramdin felted WPT Champ Andy Frankenberger and became the first player to crest the 2 million chip mark.
Then Ramdin tangled with WPT Champ Mike Linster, and watched as his chips went the other way. Linster doubled up to roughly 1 million, leaving Ramdin with about 1.4 million.