Kabir One of the Top Stacks With Elias and McKeehen After Day 1b in $5,300 The Return
The Return - A Borgata Championship Event in Atlantic City was full of action today during Day 1b of the $5,300 The Return. A field of more than 650 took their shot at the second of two starting flights and when all the dust settled after thirteen hours of play, about a third of those players remained with a chance at the $3,000,000 guarantee.
The day was chock full of big names and Borgata locals alike. Ending the day as one of the largest stacks was low-profile Mohammed Kabir who has very little recorded poker resume to speak of but was one of the big stacks throughout the day, holding as much as 425,000 at one point He would relinquish some of that big stack before bagging 310,000.
Juxtaposed with the scant record of Kabir at the top of the counts, was well-known crusher Darren Elias who amassed a chip stack of 276,500.
Young Sik Eum (265,500) and Michael Leah (265,000) were two of the largest recorded stacks at the close of play to headline some of the other big names who advanced to Day 2 which also included a couple of WSOP bracelet winners in Michael Wang (102,000) and Nick Schulma in (98,500).
Joe McKeehen bagged up 212,500 as he was yet another big-name player to have a good Day 1b.
There were also some more local players who moved on to Day 2 with big stacks; including Aubrey Williams with 259,000 and Frank Pasquale with 251,000.
The remaining players from Day 1b will converge with those who made it through Day 1a for a combined Day 2 which will get underway at 11 a.m. local time on Friday. Levels on Day 2 will be 75 minutes long.
A full list of chip counts and seat assignments for Day 2 will be available in the morning before the start of play.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand throughout for all of the updates.
against the 
. Most of the table was standing up and taking pictures of the super rare sight except for one player at the table who grew quickly annoyed and said "nobody gives a s***, deal the next hand!"
to make O'Donnell stand up as he was now basically out the door against the better full house as the table reacted but the river provided the real sting in the tail as the case ten the 
came down to give O'Donnell quads and sit him right back down while the table and dealer continued to voice their amazement.
was displayed and Zinno could do nothing but walk away.
. Al-Keliddar checked. The hijack bet 4,000, Garshofsky folded and Al-Keliddar raised to 10,000, the hijack called.
to pair the board. Al-Keliddar went all in for his remaining 14,000. The hijack said "I guess I have to call you" and tossed in the call.
on the turn. Brad Albrinck bet 6,300 from early position. Carlos Alvarado was in the big blind and decided to call. 
which was good enough to take the pot as Albrinck gave a bit of a surprised look and mucked his cards.
trips. The river was the 
and Wilson collected the large pot to move close to 200,000
. From the big blind, Renata Colache bet 13,000. Roman Valerstein was in early position and waited a bit before jamming all in which Colache snap-called.
to not help Colache as she stood up to leave the room when the chip counts were determined to be the exact same.
. After the last checks, Bourciquot quickly sat down and started gesturing for the pot to be pushed his way as he tabled the 
for the boat and the triple up. One of his opponents had 
