Milen Stefanov won the $3,500 WPT Seminole Rock & Roll Poker Open Main Event two months ago for $545,070 after defeating Fabian Gumz heads-up and is looking for another WPT title here in Atlantic City but just lost a little pot.
Ronald Citrenbaum raised to 500 from the cutoff and Stefanov defended his big blind.
The flop came , Stefanov check-called the 600 continuation-bet of Citrenbaum.
The turn brought them the , Stefanov checked again and now Citrenbaum bet 1,000 which was called.
The river completed the board with the for both players to check. Stefanov revealed the for two pair but Citrenbaum held for the higher two pair and the pot.
For every Open Series (five times a year) Borgata has a drawing for players who enter their information on theBorgata.com tournament web site. One player is randomly selected and awarded a free seat in the Championship event.
This time it was a well-known player: Soukha Kachittavong. He's got more than $1.5 million in tournament earnings and most recently won the 2019 Fall Poker Open Kick-Off DeepStack event for $87,443. That was the second time he won a major series kick-off event and his fourth Borgata title overall.
The board read when all the chips went in for Paul Yoo and his opponent.
Opponent:
Paul Yoo:
Both players had turned the Broadway but Yoo also held a flush draw.
The river completed the board with the to give Yoo the flush indeed. Yoo's stack was counted first and determined to hold 41,500 in chips. His opponent had 39,800 so was eliminated as his whole stack was awarded to Yoo to take him into the chip lead for now.
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