Event #4: $15K GTD PKO Bounty
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Event #4: $15K GTD PKO Bounty
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Welcome to Event #4 of the partypoker US Network Online Series: $15K GTD PKO Bounty
The partypoker US Network Online Series continues with a pair of events Monday night, with the second of the two being Event #4: $15K GTD PKO Bounty at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Featuring a buy-in of $320, this tournament's Progressive Knockout format will see $150 put atop each player's head from the start of play. From there, players will earn half of every person's bounty they claim throughout the tournament, while the other half will be added to their own head to be earned should they be eliminated.
Registration is open for all within the state of New Jersey across any of the three platforms of partypoker US, Borgata Poker and BetMGM Poker.
Players receive 75,000 to start with unlimited entries through the first 15 levels, all of which are 10 minutes in length. Levels will be bumped up to 12 minutes each come Level 24 (12,000/24,000/3,000) to allow for extended play through the home stretch and until a winner has been declared.
Play Underway
Eight players are in their seats at the start of Level 1 with blinds of 150/300 and an ante of 40 as Event #4 is officially underway. Three-plus hours of late registration and unlimited re-entries are open to all.
Early Runners
The field has grown to 11 in the opening minutes of Level 1 (150/300/40). Here's a look at those already in on the action.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 |
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"THENEXTPHIL" Chips Up Early
In Level 2 with blinds of 200/400 and an ante of 60, "EDESS" opened to 1,200 under the gun and received calls from "pay4medsch00l" in the cutoff and "jaehoez24", who was on the button. "THENEXTPHIL" three-bet to 7,200 in the big blind and all three players called.
The flop came 
and "THENEXTPHIL" made a continuation-bet of 10,000. All three players in the hand folded without much deliberation and "THENEXTPHIL" took down the pot, bringing their stack above 90,000 in the first 15 minutes of the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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93,183 | 18,183 |
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78,910 | 3,910 |
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68,800 | -6,200 |
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66,880 |
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Field Up To 23 at First Break
The tournament has reached its first break of the night midway through Level 3 with blinds of 250/500 and an ante of 60. Twenty-three entries have now been recorded with 22 players currently in contention after "EDESS" knocked out "ScarletRaptor", who is back in action with a top-three stack on their second bullet.
"EDESS" is the chip leader through the first two-and-a-half levels of play. Plenty more familiar faces have now entered as well, including Alex "JinYang" Butcher, Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski", Michael "miw210x" Wang", Ryan "simlSgg" Hagerty, and Chris "rumpthumper" White.
Complete chip counts have been provided below.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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128,177 | |
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99,618 | |
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87,154 | |
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86,503 | |
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84,760 | |
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84,591 | |
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82,550 | |
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77,800 | |
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77,680 | |
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77,499 | |
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76,807 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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75,000 | |
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73,950 | |
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73,503 | |
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73,340 | |
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69,895 | |
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68,380 | |
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68,045 | |
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65,733 | |
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65,160 | |
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53,855 |
Hagerty Gets Two Knockouts; Takes the Chip Lead
In Level 4 with blinds of 300/600 and an ante of 75, there was 34,000 in the middle on a board of 
after flop action finished between Ryan "simlSgg" Hagerty in the small blind and "angies13" in the hijack. The remainder of the chips proceeded to quickly be committed on both sides on the turn 
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"angies13": 
Ryan "simlSgg" Hagerty: 
Hagerty flopped a set and got it in good against the overpair of "angies13", who was unable to hit the two outer on the river and was eliminated as a result. Hagerty earned the knockout in addition to the pot, which was his second since returning from the break to earn nearly half of his buyin back before the end of Level 4.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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241,549 | 166,549 |
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Busted |
Tony "ToNiSiNzz" Sinishtaj Talks About WPT Online Borgata Series Win
In September, the World Poker Tour Online Borgata Series powered by partypoker US Network wrapped up its 10-event series with the conclusion of the $1,060 Main Event, a tournament that drew 440 entries and offered up a $432,700 prize pool.
The final table of eight battled it out for a $77,349 top prize, plus a Hublot Big Bang E Titanium watch valued at $5,200, and after 3.5 hours of play, it was Tony "ToNiSiNzz" Sinishtaj coming out on top to claim his second WPT-related title. Sinishtaj previously won the WPT Seminole Rock Poker Showdown in Season XVI for $661,283.
Sinishtaj sat down with PokerNews' Chad Holloway to talk about the win.