WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship
Day 3 Started
2019 Borgata Poker Open
WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship
Day: 3
Day 3 Table/Seat Assignments with Chip Counts
| Table | Seat | Player | Chip Count |
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| 1 | 1 | Jonathan Jaffe | 1,035,000 |
| 1 | 2 | William Jennings | 315,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Jason Wade | 260,000 |
| 1 | 4 | David Paredes | 350,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Patrick Eskandar | 295,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Femi Fashakin | 591,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Michael Mcguinness | 275,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Tony Dunst | 314,000 |
| 1 | 9 | Ravi Raghavan | 128,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Tuan Pham | 631,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Jackob Datashvili | 377,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Nicholas Pupillo | 782,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Matthew Mendez | 518,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Thomas Reynolds | 57,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Ian O'Hara | 270,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Matthew Marafioti | 134,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Scott Baumstein | 567,000 |
| 2 | 9 | David Santucci | 57,000 |
| 3 | 1 | David Stefanski | 86,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Jonathan Little | 280,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Curt Kohlberg | 158,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Alex Findlay | 236,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Jason Min | 245,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Jonas Wexler | 87,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Benjamin Morgan | 250,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Connor Daum | 70,000 |
| 3 | 9 | Shiraz Hasan | 233,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Ronald Lee | 225,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Derek Bowers | 705,000 |
| 4 | 3 | Sam Rashid | 206,000 |
| 4 | 4 | Anthony Ibrahim | 214,000 |
| 4 | 5 | Tomasz Zakrzewski | 351,000 |
| 4 | 6 | Adrian Gallardo | 323,000 |
| 4 | 7 | An Huang | 251,000 |
| 4 | 8 | Joseph Couden | 195,000 |
| 4 | 9 | Ryan Hohner | 365,000 |
| 5 | 1 | Dejuante Alexander | 166,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Haim Toorgeman | 138,000 |
| 5 | 3 | Vladimir Peck | 88,000 |
| 5 | 4 | Scott Efron | 159,000 |
| 5 | 5 | Lokesh Garg | 181,000 |
| 5 | 6 | Vanessa Selbst | 318,000 |
| 5 | 7 | Kevin Lutz | 184,000 |
| 5 | 8 | Brandon Caputo | 83,000 |
| 6 | 1 | Donald Maloney | 327,000 |
| 6 | 2 | Steven Cho | 344,000 |
| 6 | 3 | Scott Matte | 88,000 |
| 6 | 4 | Daniel Daconti | 35,000 |
| 6 | 5 | Nicholas Salimbene | 474,000 |
| 6 | 6 | Liping Zhang | 91,000 |
| 6 | 7 | Jeremy Maher | 808,000 |
| 6 | 8 | Joseph Liberta | 125,000 |
| 6 | 9 | John Pannucci | 113,000 |
| 7 | 1 | Dong Ji | 480,000 |
| 7 | 2 | Aaron Sacks | 260,000 |
| 7 | 3 | Mike Meskin | 224,000 |
| 7 | 4 | Michael Wang | 110,000 |
| 7 | 5 | Ranjeet Pawar | 267,000 |
| 7 | 6 | Jean Gaspard | 835,000 |
| 7 | 7 | Vincent Palma | 296,000 |
| 7 | 8 | Uke Dauti | 806,000 |
| 7 | 9 | Jahzeel Esquivel | 69,000 |
| 8 | 1 | Natalie Bereznyak | 183,000 |
| 8 | 2 | Scott Anderson | 92,000 |
| 8 | 3 | Andrew Frankenberger | 566,000 |
| 8 | 4 | Giuliano Lentini | 151,000 |
| 8 | 5 | Lucas Drolet | 324,000 |
| 8 | 6 | Joseph Gossweiler | 158,000 |
| 8 | 7 | Annand Ramdin | 1,016,000 |
| 8 | 8 | Minho Choe | 283,000 |
| 9 | 1 | Ryan D'Angelo | 330,000 |
| 9 | 2 | David Coleman | 525,000 |
| 9 | 3 | Myung Keun Shin | 70,000 |
| 9 | 4 | Omar Saeed | 32,000 |
| 9 | 5 | Kevin Albers | 629,000 |
| 9 | 6 | Tom Tolbert | 45,000 |
| 9 | 7 | Maurice Hawkins | 372,000 |
| 9 | 8 | Tyng Low | 305,000 |
| 10 | 1 | Arian Stolt | 848,000 |
| 10 | 2 | Qi Hu | 563,000 |
| 10 | 3 | Scott Stewart | 68,000 |
| 10 | 4 | Trung Vu Tran | 441,000 |
| 10 | 5 | Michael Testa | 308,000 |
| 10 | 6 | Bin Weng | 491,000 |
| 10 | 7 | Kenneth Stacy | 96,000 |
| 10 | 8 | Michael Stashin | 743,000 |
| 10 | 9 | Abraham Faroni | 293,000 |
| 11 | 1 | Ryan Van Sanford | 365,000 |
| 11 | 2 | Peter Zarriello | 70,000 |
| 11 | 3 | Aaron Mermelstein | 411,000 |
| 11 | 4 | Samuel Ganzfried | 499,000 |
| 11 | 5 | John Parker | 214,000 |
| 11 | 6 | Timothy Domboski | 96,000 |
| 11 | 7 | Stephen Stokes | 118,000 |
| 11 | 8 | Cliff Josephy | 149,000 |
| 12 | 1 | Shuntak Yeung | 219,000 |
| 12 | 2 | Aaron Massey | 168,000 |
| 12 | 3 | Johanssy Joseph | 329,000 |
| 12 | 4 | Jonathan Cantor | 160,000 |
| 12 | 5 | Jerry Humphrey | 154,000 |
| 12 | 6 | Mitchell Mantin | 148,000 |
| 12 | 7 | Nikolaos Platis | 276,000 |
| 12 | 8 | Charles Phillips | 494,000 |
| 12 | 9 | Ren Lin | 461,000 |
| 13 | 1 | Arianna Son | 44,000 |
| 13 | 2 | Paul Chang | 174,000 |
| 13 | 3 | Michael Linster | 336,000 |
| 13 | 4 | Kenneth Einiger | 89,000 |
| 13 | 5 | Chun Li | 171,000 |
| 13 | 6 | Peter Vitantonio | 734,000 |
| 13 | 7 | Justin Liberto | 818,000 |
| 13 | 8 | Timothy Little | 380,000 |
| 13 | 9 | Bryan Piccioli | 372,000 |
| 14 | 1 | Guo Liang Chen | 286,000 |
| 14 | 2 | Ronald Wilson | 52,000 |
| 14 | 3 | Marcos Exterkotter | 368,000 |
| 14 | 4 | Shankar Pillai | 430,000 |
| 14 | 5 | Kevin Blewitt | 364,000 |
| 14 | 6 | Greg Himmelbrand | 688,000 |
| 14 | 7 | David Farah | 670,000 |
| 14 | 8 | Jack Kashishian | 224,000 |
| 15 | 1 | Lucas Braga | 379,000 |
| 15 | 2 | John Hinds | 304,000 |
| 15 | 3 | Alfred Gillette | 461,000 |
| 15 | 4 | Michael Azzaro | 314,000 |
| 15 | 5 | Jerry Payne | 70,000 |
| 15 | 6 | Amirouddine Alibay | 720,000 |
| 15 | 7 | Michael Liang | 207,000 |
| 15 | 8 | David Laury | 375,000 |
| 16 | 1 | Ryan Olisar | 594,000 |
| 16 | 2 | Stephen Press | 318,000 |
| 16 | 3 | David Prociak | 349,000 |
| 16 | 4 | Zhen Cai | 297,000 |
| 16 | 5 | Robert Mclaughlin | 239,000 |
| 16 | 6 | Juan Rodriguez | 700,000 |
| 16 | 7 | Asher Conniff | 309,000 |
| 16 | 8 | Ryan Hughes | 614,000 |
| 17 | 1 | Alexander Rocha | 160,000 |
| 17 | 2 | Jaspal Brar | 331,000 |
| 17 | 3 | John Mcguinness | 399,000 |
| 17 | 4 | Matthew Holmquist | 273,000 |
| 17 | 5 | Matthew Iles | 308,000 |
| 17 | 6 | Matthew Gambino | 124,000 |
| 17 | 7 | Jacob Corda | 18,000 |
| 17 | 8 | Peter Hong | 354,000 |
WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship Day 3
Day 3 of the WPT BPO Championship will get getting underway shortly with 145 returning players, all of whom are in the money and guaranteed to earn at least $5,797. Of course all have their eye on the top prize of $616,186 and becoming part of the WPT Champions Club.
Jonathan Jaffe starts Day 3 as the chip leader with 1,035,000, followed by Victor Ramdin with 1,016,000. Both of these guys are already Champions Club members, so they're looking for a second plaque on the trophy.
Day 3 Underway
Play has begun with 52 minutes remaining in Level 17 (Blinds 3,000/6,000 with 6,000 BB Ante).
They're just one elimination away from breaking Table 17.
Early Departures
WSOP Bracelet winner Michael Wang was the first player to hit the rail, finishing 145th for $5,797.
Jacob Corda got his last few chips in holding 
against the 
of John Hinds. A jack on the flop was all it took to end Corda's tournament. He finished 137th for $5,797.
Other early departures:
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Jennings Doubles Thru Jaffe
Jonathan Jaffe (sb) and Bill Jennings, (bb) and Jason Wade (utg) were looking at a flop of 
and Jaffe checked, Jennings checked, and Wade fired 20,000. Jaffe flatted, then Jennings raised to 77,000. Wade folded, Jaffe then raised to 250,000, and Jennings shoved all 295,000 in. Jaffe called the small raise and the hands were tabled.
Jaffe's 
(flush draw) was drawing against Jennings' 
(trip eights). The board completed with the 
and the 
and changed nothing. Jennings doubled up and Jaffe was knocked off the top of the leaderboard.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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730,000 | -305,000 |
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660,000 | 660,000 |
Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
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: 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
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Jennings Pays It Forward, to Dunst
Level 18
: 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
After doubling up through the chip leader, Bill Jennings didn't hold on to those chips for long. He got involved in a pot with WPT Commentator Tony Dunst.
On the turn with the board reading 
, Dunst got all-in for ~240,000 and called by Jennings.
Dunst (bb) had 
for two pair to crack Jennings' 
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river was a brick and Dunst doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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650,000 | 336,000 |
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Liberto Takes the Lead
Level 18
: 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
WSOP bracelet winner Justin Liberto has chipped up to about 1.3 million and taken the chip lead, slightly ahead of Victor Ramdin, who is holding steady, second in chips where he started the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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1,300,000 | 482,000 |
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1,280,000 | 264,000 |
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