174 Return to Try and Make the Money in the $3,500 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship
A mere 174 players out of 1,290 entries will return to the poker tables for Day 3 of the $3,500 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship in the Event Center of the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa. The tournament featured a $3,000,000 guarantee and that was easily surpassed as a total prize pool of a whopping $4,129,290 was created with the winner walking away with an amazing first-place prize of $674,840.
Canada’s Patrick Serda is coming into Day 3 with the overall chip lead of 994,000 in chips which is worth 166 big blinds. He is on the same table as fellow Canadian Veerab Zakarian, Day 2 entry Ioannis Patsoukaris, and Olivier Busquet as the shortest stack at the table. Serda is trailed in in the chip counts is Brian Altman (923,000), Nathan Russler (914,000), Abraham Korotki (788,000), and Peter Vitantonio with 782,000 in chips.
With only 162 players getting paid, the bubble is expected to burst quite soon after the tournament has restarted. A min-cash is worth $5,886 and 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. Players have been handed ten time-extension chips.
When the players return to the felt, they will continue with Level 17 which features a small blind of 3,000, big blind of 6,000, and a big blind ante of 6,000. Level duration will increase to 90 minutes per level and play will continue until there are 24 players left.
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and Lara Eisenberg (big blind) checked, Ari Engel checked, and Dan Sewnig (button) bet 60,000. Eisenberg flatted and Engel folded.
for just king-high. Eisenberg showed 
for trip aces to take the pot.
with 176,000 in the middle already.
for Marmen to hit top two pair on the flop immediately. No nine on the turn nor river as Pinson was sent to the rail as the bubble boy.
against the 
and made no difference. Hen more than doubled up with the dead money in the pot.
and the whole room could hear Bianco yelling for a "Diamond!".
turn card was not the card he was looking for, but the 
for the set, while Hoffman's 
gave him two pair.
