Riess, Depaulo & Foxens Among Notables Returning for Day 2 in $2,200 Mystery Bounty Event
The second and final day of $2,200 Mystery Bounty Event as part of The Return - A Borgata Championship Event in Atlantic City kicks off today at noon local time with 397 players remaining. Among them are chip leaders Michael Dentale (465,100), Anthony Elmo (432,000), Christopher Rich (411,400) and James Romero (377,300).
The two starting flights of the Mystery Bounty Event attracted 1,361 runners for a total prize pool of $2,640,340, and $1 million of that will go into the bounty prize pool.
Plenty of big names survived to see Day 2, including 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Ryan Riess, multi-bracelet winners Anthony Zinno and Paul Volpe, 2022 GPI Player of the Year Stephen Song and runner-up Adam Hendrix, and Joey Weissman, who last summer won the inaugural BetMGM Poker Championship in Las Vegas for $224,236.
$2,200 Mystery Bounty Event Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
| RANK | PLAYER | CHIP COUNT | BIG BLINDS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Dentale | 465,100 | 155 | |
| 2 | Anthony Elmo | 432,000 | 144 | |
| 3 | Christopher Rich | 411,400 | 137 | |
| 4 | James Romero | 377,300 | 126 | |
| 5 | Arash Eshaghian | 375,300 | 125 | |
| 6 | Soukha Kachittavong | 364,900 | 122 | |
| 7 | Steven Sau | 358,400 | 119 | |
| 8 | Brett Levitzke | 320,200 | 107 | |
| 9 | Frank Brannan | 309,000 | 103 | |
| 10 | Jeffrey Chang | 301,800 | 101 |
Other notables who will be in the Day 2 field include Francis Anderson, Ryan Depaulo, Matthew Stout, Jesse Lonis, Lisa Pickell and poker poker couple Alex Foxen and Kristen Foxen.
Mystery Bounties will start at 300 players and the minimum Mystery Bounty prize will be $500. Additional prizes include 20 prizes of $1,000, 24 prizes of $2,500, 11 prizes of $5,000, 5 prizes of $10,000, 4 prizes of $25,000, 3 prizes of $50,000, 2 prizes of $100,000 and a Grand prize of $250,000.
Day 2 will play down to a winner, who will take home the lion's share of the prize pool and the honor of winning the first event during the magnificent return to Borgata.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is on-site and will report on the event until a winner a crowned.
to give him the winner and for Giovanniello to go out on the bounty bubble. 
. Conniff bet 50,000 and Teliani quickly folded. Conniff showed the 
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to give the all in player trips but improve Conniff to a full house. The river was the 
and Conniff added a bounty to his haul as well as the big pot to move his stack north of 500,000 to put himself among the leaders.
turn. The opponent gave up asking for a queen before the 
bricked off on the river for Lonis to eliminate both opponents. 
as he added the boost to his stack.
turn and Kachittavong called. 
then bricked off on the river and a visibly flustered Daily hit the rail as the floor announced that the remaining players had reached the money.
for Nguyen to hit his ace to double.
