The Return - A Borgata Championship Event

$2,200 Mystery Bounty Event ($1,000,000 in Guaranteed Bounties)
Day: 2
Event Info

The Return - A Borgata Championship Event

Event Info
Buy-in
$2,200
Prize Pool
$2,670,340
Entries
1,361
Players Left
9
Average Chip Stack
5,292,778
Total Chips
47,635,000
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
160,000
Players Info - Day 2
Entries
397
Players Left
9

Riess, Depaulo & Foxens Among Notables Returning for Day 2 in $2,200 Mystery Bounty Event

Ryan Riess
Ryan Riess

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

 RANKPLAYERCHIP COUNTBIG BLINDS
 1Michael Dentale465,100155
 2Anthony Elmo432,000144
 3Christopher Rich411,400137
 4James Romero377,300126
 5Arash Eshaghian375,300125
 6Soukha Kachittavong364,900122
 7Steven Sau358,400119
 8Brett Levitzke320,200107
 9Frank Brannan309,000103
 10Jeffrey Chang301,800101

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.

Ryan DePaulo
Ryan DePaulo

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.

Tags: Adam HendrixAlex FoxenAnthony ZinnoFrancis AndersonJames RomeroJason DeutschKristen FoxenLisa PickellMatthew StoutPaul VolpeRyan DePauloRyan RiessStephen SongYaser Al-Keliddar