Event #1: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off Day 1e | 2020 Borgata Winter Poker Open

01-17-2020 04:04 UTC-4

Joseph Rich Bags the Overall Chip Lead

TKBluffs

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The final flight of Event #1: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off in the Borgata Winter Poker Open drew a massive total of 1,415 entries. This brought the combined total to 4,375 entries creating a prize pool of over $2,200,000.

There are approximately 230 players from this flight moving on to day two. Joseph Rich bagged the overall chip lead with a staggering 528,000 and looks to be the only player returning with over half a million.

Some of the other players to bag big are Rob Calabrese (399,000), Matt Kennedy (390,000), Christopher Leveque (340,000), and Ron Birmingham (309,000).

Plenty of other familiar faces are moving on to day two including Fady Khabbaz (269,000), Zachary Gruneberg (214,000) Eric Siegel (206,000), Ryan Slowik (159,000), Dave Stefanski (140,000) and Soukha Kachittavong (101,000)

Approximately 750 day 1a-e survivors will return to the Event Center on Friday, January 17 at 11 a.m. local time to resume day two play and PokerNews will be picking right back up on the live tournament coverage.

Tags: Dave Stefanski Eric Siegel Fady Khabbaz Joseph Rich Rob Calabrese Soukha Kachittavong Zachary Gruneberg

01-17-2020 02:40 UTC-4

A Look at the Numbers

TKBluffs

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Day 1A Entries: 405
Day 1A Players Remaining: 65
Day 1A Chip Leader: Manny Gugliuzza (419,000)

Day 1B Entries: 558
Day 1B Players Remaining: 91
Day 1B Chip Leader: William Siegel (461,000)

Day 1C Entries: 475
Day 1C Players Remaining: 75
Day 1C Chip Leader: Rajasekar Govidan (456,000)

Day 1D Entries: 1,522
Day 1D Players Remaining: 291
Day 1D Chip Leader: Douglas Hamshaw (446,000)

Day 1E Entries: 1,415
Day 1E Players Remaining: TBD

01-16-2020 21:43 UTC-4

$2,000,000 Guarantee Already Hit

TKBluffs

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

The field is growing fast and we are approaching 1,000 entries here in the final Event #1 $600 Deepstack Kick-Off NLH flight. There are now over 3,900 total entries and counting.

We have already cruised right past the $2,000,000 guarantee and there's still plenty of time to get in on the action.

Tournament registration and re-entry will remain open until the start of Level 13 or approximately 12:45 AM.

01-16-2020 20:41 UTC-4

Last Flight Off to a Hot start

MartianNews

The fifth and final flight of Event #1: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off is now upon us and after just three levels of play the total number of players to enter has already reached 750.

A total of nine more levels of late registration remains available so expect another four-figure field as the monstrous total for this event just continues to climb.