2020 Borgata Winter Poker Open

$3,500 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship
Day: 1b
Event Info

2020 Borgata Winter Poker Open

Event Info
Buy-in
$3,500
Prize Pool
$4,129,290
Entries
1,290
Players Left
6
Average Chip Stack
8,600,000
Total Chips
51,600,000
Next Payout
Place 6
$143,264
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Players Info - Day 1b
Entries
683
Players Left
396

Amadian Extracts with Dimes vs. McGuinness

Level 7 : 300/600, 600 ante

Elia Ahmadian opened to 2,000 from the hijack, a player in the cutoff called and John McGuinness three-bet to 6,000 on the button. Only Ahmadian stuck around to see the {7-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{2-Spades} flop and both players then checked to the {q-Spades} river.

Ahmadian bet 5,000 and McGuinness called. A {6-Clubs} completed the board and both players tapped the table. Ahmadian tabled {10-Diamonds}{10-Clubs} for dimes over sevens and McGuinness mucked his hand, sending the pot to Ahmadian.

Player Chips Progress
Elia Ahmadian us
Elia Ahmadian
150,000
John McGuinness us
John McGuinness
23,100

Tags: Elia AhmadianJohn Mcguinness

Varnell Sends One Packing

Level 7 : 300/600, 600 ante
Craig Varnell
Craig Varnell

A player in late position raised to 1,600 and Ryan Van Sanford called from the hijack. Craig Varnell re-raised to 6,500 from the button and it folded back to the late position player who moved all in for 20,000. Van Sanford quickly folded and Varnell snap called.

Craig Varnell: {q-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}
Opponnet: {a-Clubs}{k-Spades}

The board ran out {j-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{7-Spades}{2-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds} and Varnell's pocket queens held up to earn him the knockout.

Varnell is now one of the biggest stacks in the room with less than two levels of play left in the night.

Player Chips Progress
Craig Varnell us
Craig Varnell
190,000
115,000
115,000
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner

Tags: Craig VarnellRyan Van Sanford

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 800

Jackson Continues to Climb

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante
David Jackson
David Jackson

We caught up to the heads up action on the {a-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} board. The player first to act checked and David Jackson bet 4,900 into a main pot of over 13,000.

The player folded and Jackson added another pot to his stack.

Player Chips Progress
David Jackson us
David Jackson
140,000
40,000
40,000
WSOP 1X Winner

Tags: David Jackson

Iadisernia Climbs Near the Top

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

The flop read {k-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}{8-Hearts} and two players found all of their chips go into the middle. [Removed:150] had the higher of the two stacks as the players turned over their cards.

Opponent: {k-Clubs}{10-Clubs}
[Removed:150]: {10-Hearts}{9-Hearts}

The {4-Hearts} peeled off as a turn card, giving Iadisernia a flush and now he needed to dodge for the pot. A {2-Clubs} landed on the river, shipping the entire pot to Iadisernia who now has over 200,000.

Player Chips Progress
[Removed:150] us
[Removed:150]
215,000
100,800
100,800

Serda Sends One Out the Door

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Patrick Serda called the all-in of an opponent late in the last level of the day and the two turned over their cards with Serda's opponent at risk.

Opponent: {k-Clubs}{j-Clubs}
Patrick Serda: {4-Spades}{4-Diamonds}

The board came down {a-Clubs}{7-Spades}{6-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}{7-Hearts} and Serda's sailboats took down the pot, sending hit opponent out of the tournament.

Player Chips Progress
Patrick Serda ca
Patrick Serda
100,000
26,000
26,000
Day 3 Chip Leader
WPT 1X Winner

Assorted Chip Counts

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante
Player Chips Progress
Francis Anderson us
Francis Anderson
310,000
257,000
257,000
Day 1B Chip Leader
Ian O'Hara us
Ian O'Hara
195,000
140,000
140,000
Joseph Couden us
Joseph Couden
175,000
-15,000
-15,000
Omer Rotman il
Omer Rotman
140,000
60,000
60,000
Mark Wahba us
Mark Wahba
115,000
5,000
5,000
Rob Calabrese us
Rob Calabrese
110,000
20,000
20,000
Fikret Kovac ba
Fikret Kovac
95,000
Ari Engel ca
Ari Engel
90,000
25,000
25,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Eric Salazar us
Eric Salazar
75,000
75,000
75,000
Erik Cajelais ca
Erik Cajelais
70,000
30,000
30,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Jaspal Brar ca
Jaspal Brar
70,000
30,000
30,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Michael Rossito us
Michael Rossito
55,000
15,000
15,000
Brock Wilson us
Brock Wilson
45,000
31,000
31,000
Paul Volpe us
Paul Volpe
25,000
25,000
25,000
WSOP 3X Winner
Andrew Ostapchenko us
Andrew Ostapchenko
11,000
-49,000
-49,000

Play Has Halted

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante
Francis Anderson
Francis Anderson

The Day 1b flight of the tournament has now come to an end after eight levels of play and it looks like Francis Anderson has bagged the biggest stack of the night.

A recap of the day will be posted shortly, along with the end of day counts.

Tags: Francis Anderson