$3,500 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship
Day 3 Started
$3,500 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship
Day 3 Started
Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
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1 | 1 | Brock Wilson | United States | 526,000 | 88 |
1 | 2 | Lawrence Abrams | United States | 733,000 | 122 |
1 | 3 | Thomas Wheaton | United States | 220,000 | 37 |
1 | 4 | TJ Shulman | United States | 111,000 | 19 |
1 | 5 | Hye Park | United States | 153,000 | 26 |
1 | 6 | David Novak | United States | 463,000 | 77 |
1 | 7 | Jesse Bane | United States | 54,000 | 9 |
1 | 8 | Donald Mathews | United States | 98,000 | 16 |
1 | 9 | Darren Elias | United States | 171,000 | 29 |
2 | 1 | Mark Wahba | United States | 129,000 | 22 |
2 | 2 | Dien Le | United States | 104,000 | 17 |
2 | 3 | James Salmon | United States | 291,000 | 49 |
2 | 4 | Randolph Pearson | United States | 239,000 | 40 |
2 | 5 | Ryan Mcknight | United States | 345,000 | 58 |
2 | 6 | Kristine Zakaite | Latvia | 91,000 | 15 |
2 | 7 | Peter Vitantonio | United States | 782,000 | 130 |
2 | 8 | Scott Boxenhorn | United States | 174,000 | 29 |
3 | 1 | Jeffrey Gross | United States | 120,000 | 20 |
3 | 2 | Jonas Wexler | United States | 215,000 | 36 |
3 | 3 | Millard Hale | United States | 293,000 | 49 |
3 | 4 | Alex Muscarella | United States | 88,000 | 15 |
3 | 5 | Eracles Panayiotou | United States | 260,000 | 43 |
3 | 6 | Grigoriy Shvarts | United States | 633,000 | 106 |
3 | 7 | Je Wook Oh | United States | 673,000 | 112 |
3 | 8 | Maurice Hawkins | United States | 228,000 | 38 |
3 | 9 | Jesus Martinez | United States | 202,000 | 34 |
4 | 1 | Stephen Song | United States | 281,000 | 47 |
4 | 2 | Nghi Tran | United States | 135,000 | 23 |
4 | 3 | Michael Hollenberg | United States | 112,000 | 19 |
4 | 4 | Ory Hen | United States | 89,000 | 15 |
4 | 5 | Alexander Queen | United States | 485,000 | 81 |
4 | 6 | Galen Hall | United States | 590,000 | 98 |
4 | 7 | Hui Liu | United States | 104,000 | 17 |
4 | 8 | Ryan Hohner | United States | 227,000 | 38 |
5 | 1 | Gaurav Raina | United States | 136,000 | 23 |
5 | 2 | Jorge Confesor | United States | 416,000 | 69 |
5 | 3 | Gintautas Putinas | United States | 308,000 | 51 |
5 | 4 | Julius Heftler | United States | 91,000 | 15 |
5 | 5 | Joseph Cappello | United States | 204,000 | 34 |
5 | 6 | Spencer Champlin | United States | 249,000 | 42 |
5 | 7 | William Pilossoph | United States | 140,000 | 23 |
5 | 8 | Thomas Larson | United States | 321,000 | 54 |
5 | 9 | Paul Chang | United States | 141,000 | 24 |
6 | 1 | Kou Vang | United States | 156,000 | 26 |
6 | 2 | Anthony Bertuzzi | United States | 173,000 | 29 |
6 | 3 | Dong Ji | United States | 173,000 | 29 |
6 | 4 | Veerab Zakarian | Canada | 454,000 | 76 |
6 | 5 | Patrick Serda | Canada | 994,000 | 166 |
6 | 6 | Ioannis Patsourakis | United States | 638,000 | 106 |
6 | 7 | Olivier Busquet | United States | 111,000 | 19 |
6 | 8 | Jeffrey Yanchek | United States | 214,000 | 36 |
6 | 9 | Benedetto Bianco | United States | 335,000 | 56 |
7 | 1 | James Morgan | Canada | 104,000 | 17 |
7 | 2 | Neil Chriss | United States | 269,000 | 45 |
7 | 3 | Andrew Hanna | United States | 372,000 | 62 |
7 | 4 | Daniel Santoro | United States | 110,000 | 18 |
7 | 5 | Patrick Quinn | Canada | 549,000 | 92 |
7 | 6 | Brett Butz | United States | 72,000 | 12 |
7 | 7 | Ryan Eriquezzo | United States | 269,000 | 45 |
7 | 8 | Jerry Robinson | United States | 100,000 | 17 |
8 | 1 | Matthew Emmel | United States | 172,000 | 29 |
8 | 2 | Michael Morton | United States | 342,000 | 57 |
8 | 3 | Howard Feingold | United States | 108,000 | 18 |
8 | 4 | Frank Stepuchin | United States | 86,000 | 14 |
8 | 5 | Jeremy Stein | United States | 78,600 | 13 |
8 | 6 | Jackob Datashvili | United States | 221,000 | 37 |
8 | 7 | Paul Snead | United States | 426,000 | 71 |
8 | 8 | Donald Maloney | United States | 253,000 | 42 |
8 | 9 | Fikret Kovac | United States | 617,000 | 103 |
9 | 1 | Joseph Di Rosa Rojas | United States | 171,000 | 29 |
9 | 2 | Matt Glantz | United States | 673,000 | 112 |
9 | 3 | Francis Anderson | United States | 259,000 | 43 |
9 | 4 | Sandeep Pulusani | United States | 621,000 | 104 |
9 | 5 | Luiz Galvao Bueno Ferreira | Brazil | 273,000 | 46 |
9 | 6 | Francois Tosques | United States | 357,000 | 60 |
9 | 7 | Daniel Dizenzo | United States | 219,000 | 37 |
9 | 8 | Jason Lawhun | United States | 396,000 | 66 |
10 | 1 | Daniel Sewnig | United States | 142,000 | 24 |
10 | 2 | Anthony Maio | United States | 134,000 | 22 |
10 | 3 | Thomas Reynolds | United States | 141,000 | 24 |
10 | 4 | Joo Shin | United States | 190,000 | 32 |
10 | 5 | Michael Marder | United States | 54,000 | 9 |
10 | 6 | Ryan Messick | United States | 502,000 | 84 |
10 | 7 | Ari Engel | United States | 497,000 | 83 |
10 | 8 | Charles Furey | United States | 123,000 | 21 |
10 | 9 | Scott Matte | United States | 167,000 | 28 |
11 | 1 | Darius Studdard | United States | 351,000 | 59 |
11 | 2 | Jefferey Chang | United States | 202,000 | 34 |
11 | 3 | Viet Nguyen | United States | 219,000 | 37 |
11 | 4 | Daniel Daconti | United States | 127,000 | 21 |
11 | 5 | Ryan Tamanini | United States | 312,000 | 52 |
11 | 6 | Adam Hendrix | United States | 92,000 | 15 |
11 | 7 | Stephen Ma | United States | 245,000 | 41 |
11 | 8 | Justin Adams | United States | 271,000 | 45 |
12 | 1 | Robert Mclaughlin | United States | 147,000 | 25 |
12 | 2 | Kenneth Neri | United States | 209,000 | 35 |
12 | 3 | Erkut Yilmaz | United States | 113,000 | 19 |
12 | 4 | Edric Nicoli | United States | 340,000 | 57 |
12 | 5 | James Sowers | United States | 228,000 | 38 |
12 | 6 | Chad Gallimore | United States | 241,000 | 40 |
12 | 7 | David Stefanski | United States | 245,000 | 41 |
12 | 8 | Vinny Pahuja | United States | 173,000 | 29 |
13 | 1 | Joe McKeehen | United States | 426,000 | 71 |
13 | 2 | Shannon Shorr | United States | 524,000 | 87 |
13 | 3 | Patrick Kelly | United States | 231,000 | 39 |
13 | 4 | Stanley Lee | United States | 92,000 | 15 |
13 | 5 | Joseph Neiman | United States | 229,000 | 38 |
13 | 6 | David Coleman | United States | 108,000 | 18 |
13 | 7 | James Anderson | United States | 186,000 | 31 |
13 | 8 | Justin Zaki | United States | 312,000 | 52 |
13 | 9 | Nenad Cvetkovic | United States | 117,000 | 20 |
14 | 1 | Derek Marmen | United States | 726,000 | 121 |
14 | 2 | Timothy Rutherford | Canada | 292,000 | 49 |
14 | 3 | Zachary Gruneberg | United States | 104,000 | 17 |
14 | 4 | Michael Azzaro | United States | 67,000 | 11 |
14 | 5 | David Pham | United States | 126,000 | 21 |
14 | 6 | John Aglialoro | United States | 235,000 | 39 |
14 | 7 | Balakrish Patur | United States | 240,000 | 40 |
14 | 8 | Aaron Pinson | United States | 154,000 | 26 |
14 | 9 | Ryan Hagerty | United States | 102,000 | 17 |
15 | 1 | Shaun O'Donnell | United States | 243,000 | 41 |
15 | 2 | Alex Visbisky | United States | 466,000 | 78 |
15 | 3 | Brian Eckstrom | United States | 371,000 | 62 |
15 | 4 | Wilbern Hoffman | United States | 284,000 | 47 |
15 | 5 | James Pupillo | United States | 453,000 | 76 |
15 | 6 | Sebastiaan de Jonge | United States | 142,000 | 24 |
15 | 7 | Landen Lucas | United States | 303,000 | 51 |
15 | 8 | Brian Altman | United States | 923,000 | 154 |
15 | 9 | James Tarantino | United States | 229,000 | 38 |
16 | 1 | Mark Scacewater | United States | 486,000 | 81 |
16 | 2 | Theodore Lui | United States | 175,000 | 29 |
16 | 3 | Mark Dube | United States | 421,000 | 70 |
16 | 4 | Taylor Von Kriegenbergh | United States | 427,000 | 71 |
16 | 5 | Eric Fields | United States | 395,000 | 66 |
16 | 6 | John Parker | United States | 146,000 | 24 |
16 | 7 | Matthew Waxman | United States | 548,000 | 91 |
16 | 8 | Samuel Taylor | United States | 83,000 | 14 |
16 | 9 | Gordon Eng | United States | 235,000 | 39 |
17 | 1 | Ben Keeline | United States | 312,000 | 52 |
17 | 2 | Ho Yin Lee | United Kingdom | 306,000 | 51 |
17 | 3 | Chun Li | United States | 195,000 | 33 |
17 | 4 | Brandon Hall | United States | 603,000 | 101 |
17 | 5 | Thai Ha | United States | 200,000 | 33 |
17 | 6 | Emile Schiff | Jamaica | 148,000 | 25 |
17 | 7 | Timothy Burden | United States | 360,000 | 60 |
17 | 8 | Ali Turkan | United States | 355,000 | 59 |
17 | 9 | Stephen Press | United States | 717,000 | 120 |
18 | 1 | Jason Brauda | United States | 208,000 | 35 |
18 | 2 | Yongkeun Kwon | United States | 147,000 | 25 |
18 | 3 | Michelle Gaspar | United States | 203,000 | 34 |
18 | 4 | Abraham Korotki | United States | 788,000 | 131 |
18 | 5 | Anthony Cousineau | United States | 120,000 | 20 |
18 | 6 | Joseph Couden | United States | 262,000 | 44 |
18 | 7 | Shon Glusky | United States | 373,000 | 62 |
18 | 8 | Bin Weng | United States | 424,000 | 71 |
18 | 9 | Nathan Russler | United States | 914,000 | 152 |
19 | 1 | Adam Gerber | United States | 546,000 | 91 |
19 | 2 | Michael Rossitto | United States | 219,000 | 37 |
19 | 3 | Leonard Sande | United States | 426,000 | 71 |
19 | 4 | Jeffrey Colpitts | United States | 379,000 | 63 |
19 | 5 | Steven Sarmiento | United States | 268,000 | 45 |
19 | 6 | Jonathan Hanner | United States | 211,000 | 35 |
19 | 7 | Joseph Galazzo | United States | 450,000 | 75 |
19 | 8 | Scott Seamon | United States | 243,000 | 41 |
19 | 9 | Brandon Miller | United States | 118,000 | 20 |
20 | 1 | Lara Eisenberg | United States | 425,000 | 71 |
20 | 2 | Craig Varnell | United States | 642,000 | 107 |
20 | 3 | Sungwon Lee | United States | 323,000 | 54 |
20 | 4 | Steven Glusky | United States | 110,000 | 18 |
20 | 5 | Shawn Cunix | United States | 737,000 | 123 |
20 | 6 | Baitai Li | China | 719,000 | 120 |
20 | 7 | Thomas Cannuli | United States | 543,000 | 91 |
20 | 8 | Michael Cannon | United States | 278,000 | 46 |
20 | 9 | Brett Apter | United States | 496,000 | 83 |
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.
PokerNews will be there from the raise until the final hand has been dealt so follow along with the updates of the live reporting team.
Due to some traffic circumstances, the start of the tournament has been delayed until 12:20.
Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Most of the players have managed to make it through the traffic problems and have taken their seats at the tables. The dealers have now been instructed to shuffle up and deal.
Ari Engel raised to 12,000 from the early position and Daniel Sewnig shoved from the hijack for 166,000. Thomas Reynolds contemplated for a while on the button and then made the call for 115,000 or so. The blinds folded and so did Engel.
Thomas Reynolds:
Daniel Sewnig:
The board ran out for Sewnig to hot the river for a full house to eliminate Reynolds.
At the same time, Jesse Bane and Viet Nguyen were eliminated on the other tables.
This means the field is down to 171 players and Table 20 has been broken up to balance out the other tables.
The Action Clock is now in play.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Daniel Sewnig | 308,000 | 166,000 |
Viet Nguyen | Busted | |
Thomas Reynolds
|
Busted | |
Jesse Bane
|
Busted |
The Protection Poker Action Clock is in play as we approach the money bubble. Remaining players get 10 Time Extension chips for use when they need more than the allotted 30 seconds to act.
Among the players eliminated out of the money today was Erkut Yilmaz, who won the 2018 WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship for $575,112. There will be no repeat for him here today.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Erkut Yilmaz
|
Busted | |
John Aglialoro
|
Busted | |
Michael Marder | Busted |
First, Alex Muscarella doubled up from the late position for 73,000 with against the of Grigoriy Shvarts in the cutoff when the board ran out for Muscarella to hit the flop for the pair of eights and improve to two pair on the river.
The hand after, Milliard Hale raised to 15,000 from the early position and Muscarella shoved for 161,000 in the middle position. Action folded back to Hale who cut out calling chips, took some time, used a time extension, and then made the call.
Alex Muscarella:
Milliard Hale:
The board ran out for Musacarella to hold with the pair of queens to double up again.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Grigoriy Shvarts | 540,000 | -93,000 |
Alex Muscarella | 337,000 | 249,000 |
Millard Hale | 110,000 | -183,000 |
Randolph Pearson and Jonas Wexler have also been eliminated before the money which means that there are now 166 players left.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Grigoriy Shvarts | 720,000 | 180,000 |
Randolph Pearson
|
Busted | |
Jonas Wexler
|
Busted |