WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship Day 3 | 2019 Borgata Poker Open

09-18-2019 14:50 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Shuntak Yeung	Busted
Guo Liang Chen	Busted
Omar Saeed	Busted
Anthony Ibrahim	Busted
Lucas Drolet	Busted
David Coleman	Busted

Natalie Bereznyak	Busted
Joseph Liberta	Busted
Jonas Wexler	Busted

Bin Weng	Busted

Tuan Pham	Busted
Brandon Caputo	Busted
Matthew Iles	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Dong Ji	1,370,000 890,000	890,000
Jonathan Little	445,000 165,000	165,000

Jerry Payne	200,000 130,000	130,000
Ryan Hughes	Busted

Liang Doubles Thru Ramdin

Kaelaine Minton

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Victor Ramdin opened from the cutoff, then Michael Liang jammed for 105,000 from the button. Ramdin made a "what the hell" call, tabling . Liang's was ahead and the board of sealed his double-up with a King on the river.

Liang doubled to about 235,000 and no noticeable dent was put in Ramdin's big stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Victor Ramdin	1,500,000 185,000	185,000
Michael Liang	235,000 28,000	28,000

Tags: Michael Liang Victor Ramdin

09-18-2019 13:57 UTC-5

Break Time Big Stacks

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Kaelaine Minton

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

As of the break, David Farah had pulled into the chip lead with more than 1.7 million, edging out Justin Liberto, who's playing about 1.5 million.

Farah made the final table of the 2019 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open back in January, a final table that played out in April under the lights and cameras at the Luxor Esports Arena Las Vegas. He ended up with a second-place finish ($485,611) in that event and would love some redemption here in this Championship.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dave Farah	1,700,000 1,700,000	1,700,000
Justin Liberto	1,500,000 200,000	200,000

Uke Dauti	1,370,000 564,000	564,000
Victor Ramdin	1,315,000 35,000	35,000
Aaron Mermelstein	1,130,000 719,000	719,000

Tags: David Farah Justin Liberto

Level: 19

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 10,000

09-18-2019 13:47 UTC-5

Datashvili Departed Before Break

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Kaelaine Minton

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Jackob Datashvili, who won the 2019 Borgata Summer Poker Open Championship in July, was eliminated before the break, so there will be no back-to-back champion in this event.

Also gone before break:

Player	Chips	Progress
Jackob Datashvili	Busted
Jason Min	Busted
David Santucci	Busted
Samuel Ganzfried	Busted
Dejuante Alexander	Busted

Bryan Piccioli	Busted

Tags: Jackob Datashvili

09-18-2019 13:35 UTC-5

First Break of Day 3

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Kaelaine Minton

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Championship players are taking their first break of the day. They've got 15 minutes then will return to the felt.

09-18-2019 13:23 UTC-5

Queens Good for McGuinness

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Kaelaine Minton

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Patrick Eskandar got his last ~200,000 chips in holding pocket sevens, but ran into the pocket Queens held by Mike McGuinness.

The board brought nothing but bricks and McGuinness took the pot, chipping up to about 550,000.

Eskandar hit the rail in 106th place ($6,399).

Other recent departures below.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Mcguinness	550,000 550,000	550,000
Patrick Eskandar	Busted
Ryan Van Sanford	Busted

An Huang	Busted
Mitchell Mantin	Busted
Joseph Gossweiller	Busted
Michael Azzaro	Busted
Stephen Press	Busted
Ranjeet Pawar	Busted
Stephen Stokes	Busted

Tags: Michael Mcguinness Patrick Eskandar

09-18-2019 13:06 UTC-5

Prociak Felts Mendez

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Kaelaine Minton

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

In a battle between WSOP bracelet holders, Matt Mendez got his last ~285,000 chips in holding against the of David Prociak.

At the river, the final board read giving both players straights, but Prociak had Broadway for the nut straight. He chipped up to about 730,000, while Mendez reported to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Prociak	730,000 243,000	243,000

Matthew Mendez	Busted

Tags: David Prociak Matthew Mendez

09-18-2019 12:55 UTC-5

More Departures

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Kaelaine Minton

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ronald Lee	Busted
Alex Findlay	Busted
Marcos Exterkotter	Busted
Peter Zarriello	Busted
Ben Morgan	Busted
Maurice Hawkins	Busted
Vincent Palma	Busted
William Jennings	Busted
John Parker	Busted

Liping Zhang	Busted
Scott Efron	Busted
Dan DaConti	Busted
Arianna Son	Busted
Jerry Humphrey	Busted