John Yanni is another Borgata regular who has already completed the hat trick for this series with three cashes!
Event #1: $600 Deep Stack NLH Kick-Off, 137th for $2,521
Event #13: $400 Almighty Stack NLH, 87th for $1,847
Event #23: $300 Big Wednesday Deep Stack NLH, 59th for $614
Another cash today would be a nice capper on the series for Yanni. The question is, is he hiding his face from other players, or is he trying to avoid catching any colds or flu going around?
There’s a new poker tour in town as a trio of MGM properties – MGM National Harbor, MGM Springfield, and Borgata – have joined forces to establish the MGM East Coast Poker Tour (ECPT).
The tour will consist of the following stops:
Potomac Winter Poker Open at MGM National Harbor February 5-17
Borgata Spring Poker Open April 7-24
Borgata Summer Poker Open July 7-24
Potomac Summer Poker Open at MGM National Harbor July 22-August 3
The Armory Classic at MGM Springfield August 12-24
“MGM Resorts offers players the best poker product on the East Coast,” said Jorge Perez, Portfolio President. “Our East Coast Poker Tour is a great way for us to showcase three of our industry-leading properties while creating an exciting tournament series for our guests and poker enthusiasts.”
The Points Leaderboard
Linking the five events will be a leaderboard where players can earn points by participating in any qualifying events.
Leaderboard prizes consist of the following: the top 90 finishers on the leaderboard will earn entry into Borgata Fall Poker Open/MGM Resorts East Coast Poker Tour $2,000,000 Guaranteed Championship on November 15-20, 2020 ($3,500 value) including complimentary overnight stays. Others can win $250 room credits, Cartier watch ($2,500 value) and $500 MGM Resorts promotional gift cards.
Players can earn points in a variety of ways including “Participation Points” for buying into tournaments, “Entry Points” based on field sizes, and “Placement Points” for making the final table. Click here for more details on the point system.
The leaderboard will be posted to MGMECPT.com and updated daily when qualifying events are occurring. Points for the leaderboard will be finalized on August 25, 2020.
Previewing the Potomac Winter Poker Open
The upcoming Potomac Winter Poker Open at MGM National Harbor, which runs from February 5-17, 2020, will offer over $1,000,000 in guarantees over 14 events. It marks the first time a winter edition of the PPO has been held to complement its annual late-summer series.
Highlights on the schedule include the $400 buy-in, $500,000 guaranteed Opener and the $3,000 buy-in, $500,000 guarantee Main Event. What’s more, PokerNews is slated to be on-site to offer live updates from both of those events as well as the $400 Large Stack BB Ante from February 12-13.
During this previous 17 days of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, Dan DaConti has cashed four times in trophy events, putting on an impressive performance for this series.
He started with the $600 Deep Stack NLH Kick-Off, finishing 253rd out of 4,375 entrants to score $1,409. His second was just a day later in Event #3: $500 Black Chip Bounty Deep Stack NLH, where his 93rd place finish (out of 1,165 entries) earned him $763.
The following week it was Event #13: $400 Almighty Stack NLH, where DaConti finished 96th out of 3,359 entrants for $1,711, and he capped it all with a 133rd place finish (out of 1,290 entries) in the WPT BWPO Championship, earning $6,390.
He's back on the felt today in the Deepest Stack final trophy event, attempting to put an exclamation point on the series with a fifth cash, and potentially a BWPO trophy!
Enter for your chance to win the $5,000 grand prize! Participants will have 1 minute to throw 10 Wilson NFL mini footballs at four different targets from ten yards. The top 16 scores will advance to the final round.
One re-entry is permitted for Round 1. Participants must have a M life® Rewards Card
Date: Saturday, February 1, 2020
Location: Signature Room
Buy-in Location: Borgata Poker Room from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Ryan Eriquezzo is already on the board with four cashes during this 2020 Borgata Winter Poker Open. In Event #1: $600 Deep Stack NLH Kick-Off, he finished 262nd out of 4,365 runners for $1,409. Then it was on to Event #10: $300 Deepest Stack NLH, where he finished 15th for $2,353. At the final table of Event #14: $1,090 SixMax, he came up with a fourth place finish for $34,365. Then he put together a deep run in Event #20: WPT BWPO Championship, finishing 76th for $8,735.
He's not wearing the pink hoodie he sported during previous events, so perhaps he's looking to change it up today, but after pocketing more than $45,000 this series, it will be interesting to see if he can go deep again in this one-day event.
