Noon Start for Day 2 of the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open With 2 Levels of Late Registration Still Possible
Day 2 of the $3,500 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open is set to start at noon local time in the beautiful Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa with 593 players out of 1,065 entries returning to the poker tables. The tournament featured a wonderful $3,000,000 prize pool guarantee which has already been crushed and as the late registration and reentry period remain open for the first two 60-minute levels of the day, more entries are expected to be collected today.
Coming into Day 2 with the overall chip lead is Francis Anderson with 300,100 in chips. He has been drawn onto Table 12 which also features Dejuante Alexander, Joseph Couden, and Femi Fashakin who won the special BIG 50 last summer for his first WSOP bracelet. Anderson is followed by Day 1a chip leader Leonard Sande with 245,700. Sande is seated at Table 22 with Andrew Crookston and John Long who recently came sixth in the $400 Almighty Stack a few days ago.
Third in the chip counts is Craig Varnell with 240,600. The bracelet winner will be sharing a table with Joseph Galazzo, Stanley Wang, Adel Jo, and Giuseppe Corapi as the players with an above average stack. Other notable players to keep an eye on who have bagged more than twice the average include Tony Dunst, David Jackson, Jeremy Joseph, Ian O’Hara, Francois Tosques, Sandeep Pulusani, Will Givens, Ben Keeline, James Collopy, Shaun Deeb, and Anthony Zinno.
When the players return to the felt, they will continue with Level 9 which features a small blind fo 500, big blind of 1,000, and a big blind ante of 1,000. Level duration will remain at 60 minutes for the first two levels before registration will officially close. Six more levels of 75 minutes each will be played on Day 2 with a 15-minute break after every two levels and a 75-minute dinner break at one point.
The Action Clock by Protection Poker will be used once the field is down to one table out of the money. Players will have 30 seconds to act on their hand. The number of time-extension chips provided to each player will depend on the number of players in the money.
PokerNews will be there from the moment the first bag gets opened until the final chip has been put away for Day 3 so stick around to follow all the action from the Borgata Event Center in Atlantic City.
all the chips went in and Javier Zarco tabled 
for top pair. He was at risk and way behind against Charles Furey's 
for middle set.
turn gave Furey a boat and left Zarco looking for one of two remaining nines. The 
on the river sealed his fate, for this buy-in at least. He was eliminated, but still has the option to re-enter.
giving Charette a full house on the flop. Stone, who was free-rolling this event after winner her seat in the Charity Series of Poker event Saturday night, was eliminated.
