The Return - A Borgata Championship Event
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Players have been sent on their final 15-minute break of the evening.
Payout information is now available for the $2,100 Bounty Event. With $485,000 in the prize pool, a total of 54 places will be paid with a minimum cash being worth $1,940 and $120,753 up top for the winner.
The full payouts are available in the table below.
| PLACE | PRIZE (IN USD) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $120,753 | |
| 2 | $67,900 | |
| 3 | $43,650 | |
| 4 | $34,678 | |
| 5 | $27,160 | |
| 6 | $22,310 | |
| 7 | $17,703 | |
| 8 | $13,823 | |
| 9 | $9,700 | |
| 10-12 | $6,305 | |
| 13-15 | $4,850 | |
| 16-18 | $3,638 | |
| 19-27 | $2,668 | |
| 28-36 | $2,425 | |
| 37-45 | $2,183 | |
| 46-54 | $1,940 |
David Jackson was in a heads-up pot against Mike Gao and moved all in with the board reading ![]()
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. Gao called with a stack of 123,000.
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Jackson's two pair was behind the nut flush of Gao and Jackson couldn't fill up on the river as the
peeled off to earn Gao the big double.
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Steven "Cuz" Buckner can no longer be heard yelling throughout the tournament room as the two-time WPT runner-up has been eliminated.
Buckner built up a nice stack and picked up several bounties throughout the day but couldn't make it to bag time.
The hijack opened to 10,000 and David Jackson three-bet to 28,000 from the button.
Action folded back around to the hijack, who put out his bounty chip for an all-in bet. The two-time bracelet winner snap-folded.

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