Noon Start for Event #17: $3,125 Heads-Up Quarter Finals
At noon local time, Day 2 which is the final day of Event #17: $3,125 Heads-Up resumes play at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa with 8 players out of 58 entries returning to the felt to battle each other in four heads-up matches. All those entries created a total prize pool of $168,780 with the winner taking home the first-place prize of $67,512 while all eight are already guaranteed at least $8,439.
Who will follow in Phil Hellmuth’s footsteps? The following quarter-finals are to take place so these are the players still in with a short at that wonderful first-place prize:
- Arian Stolt vs Matthew Emmel
- Christopher Abela vs Jeffrey Hong
- David Forbes vs Sandeep Pulusani
- Timothy Rutherford vs Qi Hu
Level duration will remain at 15 minutes with an increase to 30 minutes once the final has been reached. Players start with 20,000 in chips for each heads-up match and need to win two out of three games to advance to the next round.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be there from the start until the trophy can be handed over to the champion so sit tight while the updates can be found right here from the Borgata Winter Poker Open.
when Matthew Emmel bet 2,000 and Arian Stolt shoved with the bigger stack on the button. Emmel called for the 10,800 he had left.
for the first game to go Stolt's way, the players went for a short break before starting their second game.
for Hu to hold with the pair of sevens to claim the first game to his name before they both agreed to go for a short break.
for Pulusani to scoop the first game.
, Abela check-shoved with the bigger stack after Hong bet 1,000. Hong contemplated for a while and then made the call for the 12,400 he had behind. 
which didn't change things and neither did the 
. First game goes to Abela and they both agreed to take a 10-minute break before resuming play.
instead.