Nick Pupillo opened to 6,000 from the hijack and was called by Maxwell Young in the cutoff, the player on the button, and Pashk Gjini in the big blind.
On the 9♣6♦6♣ flop, Pupillo continued for 12,000 and only Young called.
The turn brought the K♠ as Pupillo sized up to 30,000, and Young stuck around once again.
On the 4♠ river, Pupillo jammed for a little over 40,000 and Young snapped it off with the slightly covering stack.
Nick Pupillo: A♠A♣
Maxwell Young: 6♠6♥
Young flopped quad sixes while Pupillo pursued value with his overpair, only to be shown the bad news as he was sent to the rail early in Day 2.
Michael Teich raised to 5,500 and Samuel Ick three-bet to 13,500 in the next seat. Coleem Chestnut then four-bet to 31,500 out of the blinds and Teich folded, while Ick called.
Chestnut bet the 6♥5♦4♥ flop for 40,000 to pick up a call and led the 3♦ turn for 100,000. Ick reluctantly called. Chestnut then jammed the 2♦ on the river and Ick snap-called to get shown the 10♠8♦ for a bluff that played the board.
Ick chopped with his Q♦Q♠.
In the meanwhile, Steven Sarmiento had vanished from the same table.
Jeremy Flieder raised to 6,000 under the gun and was called by an opponent in middle position before Dylan Cohen moved all in for 45,000 in the hijack. Flieder called, while the middle-position player got out of the way.
Dylan Cohen: Q♣Q♦
Jeremy Flieder: J♦J♥
Cohen had Flieder dominated with his queens, and the 10♦5♠2♣8♠6♦ board kept him in the lead to secure his double up.
Eric Yanovsky from under the gun and Mike Dentale from the cutoff had already build a substantial pot with around 90,000 in the middle going into the river.
With the completed board reading A♥8♦3♠2♥3♥, Yanovsky led for 78,000, sending Dentale deep into the tank.
"I don't know man..." he bemoaned, "You show me if I fold?"
Dentale eventually decided to lay it down, claiming "You aren't good enough to bluff."
Yanovsky, a 24-year-old with over $1.3 million in earnings and four cashes in $25,000 or higher buy-ins, returned his cards to the dealer face down.
The cards of Adam Agaev were already in the muck and he paid off a double to Joshua Kuncher, while Nicholas Palma seemed confused that Kuncher had 500 chips more than the starting stack.
"Oh, you didn't buy in today?" Palma inquired and Kuncher replied "no, I worked my ass off for those extra 500 chips all day long yesterday."
Kuncher's A♥Q♠ came out on top of the Q♥J♠J♥3♣8♠ board.
A total of 551 players descended on Atlantic City over three starting flights of the Borgata Summer Poker Open $2,700 Championship, and for the 163 who return for Day 2 at noon local time, the money bubble is their shared goal.
Bin Weng, already with two deep runs so far this festival, leads the field with 442,500. He’s followed on the leaderboard by Lewis Esposito (425,000), Coleem Chestnut (359,000), Frank Funaro (348,500), and John McDonald (324,500).
Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Bin Weng
United States
442,500
177
2
Lewis Esposito
United States
425,500
170
3
Coleem Chestnut
United States
359,000
144
4
Frank Funaro
United States
348,500
139
5
John McDonald
United States
324,500
130
6
Justin Liberto
United States
314,000
126
7
Eric Yanovsky
United States
311,500
125
8
Elan Chabi
United States
305,500
122
9
Mario Damiao
United States
296,000
118
10
Srikanth Gundela
United States
295,500
118
The rest of the field is littered with big names who have descended on the East Coast gambling capital to chase a share of the more than $1,000,000 prize pool. They include Justin Liberto (314,000), Mike Dentale (248,000), WSOP Circuit king Maurice Hawkins (225,000), Nicholas Verderamo (224,000), and Anthony Zinno (202,500). Further down the chip counts are Joe McKeehen (199,000), Nick Pupillo (160,000), Aaron Mermelstein (116,000), Paul Volpe (95,000), Nick Palma (88,000), Darren Elias (79,000), new BetMGM ambassador Esther Taylor (75,000), and Will Failla (72,500).
The action on Day 2 picks up on Level 11 with blinds of 1,500/2,500 and a 2,500 big blind ante. Levels remain 60 minutes, with a break after every two levels and a 75-minute dinner break after Level 16. Late registration remains open until the start of the day, so there is a chance the field can grow by the time the official prize pool is confirmed. The schedule calls for 10 levels to be played today, which should bring the field past the money bubble.
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