WPT Online Borgata Series powered by partypoker US Network

Event #8: $30K GTD Progressive Knockout Bounty
Day: 1
Event Info

WPT Online Borgata Series powered by partypoker US Network

Final Results
Winner
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman
Winning Hand
64
Prize
$5,212
Event Info
Buy-in
$320
Entries
139

Field Up To 62 At First Break

The first break of the evening has been reached midway through Level 3 with blinds of 250/500 and an ante of 60. Sixty-two entries have now been logged with 57 players in contention. The top 20 stacks in the tournament have been listed below.

Player Chips Progress
Holdem9292019 us
Holdem9292019
143,015
chaposticks us
chaposticks
113,480
softee us
softee
99,830
lenny54 us
lenny54
89,279
Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken us
Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken
88,340
A. Jackson1767 us
A. Jackson1767
83,980
phillychzsteak1 us
phillychzsteak1
82,186
mia1223 us
mia1223
70,635
treetrap us
treetrap
69,610
sri50k us
sri50k
67,841
Michael "miw210x" Wang us
Michael "miw210x" Wang
WSOP 2X Winner
66,651
onoreally us
onoreally
65,980
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis us
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis
65,170
FRIELnGood us
FRIELnGood
61,952
TheTerminator1 us
TheTerminator1
58,655
Exit_39 us
Exit_39
57,526
JakeTheSnake99 us
JakeTheSnake99
56,920
Tony "Bond18" Dunst us
Tony "Bond18" Dunst
WSOP 2X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
56,780
Dan “mj23style” Sewnig
Dan “mj23style” Sewnig
56,528
BlackCoffee us
BlackCoffee
56,143

Get to Know BorgataPoker.com Sponsored Pro Katie Stone

Katie Stone
Katie Stone

BorgataPoker.com has a trio of Sponsored Pros, and one of them is Katie Stone, who has been active in the 2020 Borgata Spring Poker Open Online Series.

Stone has more than $176K in lifetime live tournament earnings including a career-bet $33,305 for finishing 378th in the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event. In addition, Stone has three Borgata Open titles including the 2018 Borgata Fall Poker Open $300 Deepest Stack for $19,337, 2017 Borgata Summer Poker Open $300 Ladies Event for $2,867, and 2017 Borgata Fall Poker Open $300 Deepstack for $9,484. She also recently won the CSOP Borgata Winter Poker Open Event back in January.

However, where Stone has really thrived is online where she’s amassed more than $900K in lifetime earnings. Of that, $146,954 has come on BorgataPoker.com where she plays under the screen name “KatieStone.”

According to a Q&A she did with the Borgata Blog, Stone was born and raised in New Jersey, but after Black Friday in 2011, she relocated to Rosarito, Mexico in order to continue playing online. When New Jersey authorized Atlantic City casinos to offer online gaming within state borders, Stone moved back north to New Jersey and picked up where she left off — winning!

Recently, Stone took the initiative to create the Discord channel “Poker Peeps Affected By COVID19” and invited those in casino industry affected by recent shutdowns to join.

“I realized how tough it was going to be for everyone to keep up with everything and everyone, with so much changing so fast,” Stone recently told PokerNews. “So, I messaged my friend Cy Watson, who has been very active on social media as well regarding Coronavirus, asking him if he thought it would be a good idea to start a chat for people in the industry to be able to connect with each other for help.”

She continued: “I think the main thing poker players and everyone can do is to keep an open mind. Understanding that this is unlike any situation any of us have encountered before, and so thinking outside the box can go a long way. Taking the time to improve a skill, or learn a new skill whether it's a game or something else could be really beneficial not just financially, but mentally.”

Click here to learn more about Stone’s initiative.

"Holdem9292019" Gets a Double Knockout

"Holdem9292019"
"Holdem9292019"

In Level 2 with blinds of 200/400 and an ante of 50, a three-way all in ensued between the under-the-gun and short-stacked "jerseyman99", "Holdem9292019" in the hijack, and "mmmerg" who was on the button. The latter two players got stacks in on the river after the board ran out {k-Spades}{2-Clubs}{8-Spades}{k-Hearts}{10-Spades}

"jerseyman99": {q-Spades}{9-Hearts}
"mmmerg": {k-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}
"Holdem9292019": {10-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}

"Holdem9292019" wound up with a full house, tens full of kings to beat the turned trips of "mmmerg" to earn a double knockout and vault to the top of the counts early in the tournament.

Player Chips Progress
Holdem9292019 us
Holdem9292019
159,785
jerseyman99 us
jerseyman99
50,000
mmmerg us
mmmerg
Busted

Loads of Notables In Early

Michael Gagliano
Michael Gagliano

In Level 1 with blinds of 150/300 and an ante of 40, the number of entries has grown to 46 in the first six minutes of play and two knockouts have already been recorded, one each by "phillychzsteak1" and "lenny54".

Many recognizable players are already in on the action this Saturday evening, including Borgata Ambassadors Michael "Gags30" Gagliano and Daniel "leinad" Buzgon, as well as Tony "Bond18" Dunst.

Player Chips Progress
phillychzsteak1 us
phillychzsteak1
103,586 103,586
lenny54 us
lenny54
99,139 99,139
Dan “mj23style” Sewnig
Dan “mj23style” Sewnig
50,000 50,000
Michael “Gags30” Gagliano us
Michael “Gags30” Gagliano
WSOP 1X Winner
50,000 50,000
Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski
Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski
50,000
mia1223 us
mia1223
50,000 50,000
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman us
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman
50,000 50,000
jerseyman99 us
jerseyman99
50,000 50,000
Ryan "Whosyourdoddy" Dodd us
Ryan "Whosyourdoddy" Dodd
50,000 50,000
onoreally us
onoreally
50,000 50,000
Ryan “simlSgg” Hagerty
Ryan “simlSgg” Hagerty
50,000 50,000
Michael "miw210x" Wang us
Michael "miw210x" Wang
WSOP 2X Winner
50,000 50,000
Tony "Bond18" Dunst us
Tony "Bond18" Dunst
WSOP 2X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
50,000 50,000
TheTerminator1 us
TheTerminator1
50,000 50,000
Google_Man us
Google_Man
50,000 50,000
sri50k us
sri50k
50,000 50,000
ELITEMALESSO us
ELITEMALESSO
50,000 50,000
steveeee us
steveeee
50,000 50,000
mooseman1710 us
mooseman1710
50,000 50,000
Daniel “leinad” Buzgon
Daniel “leinad” Buzgon
50,000 50,000
treetrap us
treetrap
50,000 50,000
Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken us
Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken
50,000 50,000

Let's Get This Party Started!

In Level 1 with blinds of 150/300 and an ante of 40, play has officially begun in Event #8: $30K GTD PKO. Registration is open for two-and-a-half hours for all who wish to enter for $320.

Forty-one players have registered to begin play

Welcome To Event #8 of the WPT Online Borgata Series: $30K GTD PKO

WPT Online Borgata Series powered by partypoker US Networ
WPT Online Borgata Series powered by partypoker US Networ

The WPT Online Borgata Series powered by partypoker US Network continues Saturday night with a pair of high-stakes events, featuring PokerNews coverage of Event #8: $30K GTD Progressive Knockout beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET.

All week long, the guaranteed prize pools have been exceeded by a large amount, with multiple tournaments seeing turnouts to generate prize pools of more than double their guarantee. Another large field is expected Saturday night With a Progressive Knockout format that sees 50% of each player's buy-in put atop their head as a bounty. Any time a player is eliminated, half of their bounty is automatically collected by the player who captured it, while the other half is added to that player's up-for-grabs bounty.

Registration is open for everybody within the state of New Jersey across any of the three platforms of partypoker US, Borgata Poker and BetMGM Poker.

Players start with 50,000 and blinds of 150/300/40. Unlimited entries and re-entries are available through the first 15 levels of play, all of which will last 10 minutes in length. Late registration will close and the prieze pool will become official at approximately 10:15 p.m. ET upon the end of Level 15, and all subsequent levels will be bumped up to 12 minutes in length for the duration of the tournament. A detailed look at the structure has been provided below.

Betting Structure

LevelBlindsAnteLengthLevelBlindsAnteLengthLevelBlindsAnteLength
1150/3004010193,500/7,000875123760,000/120,00015,00012
2200/4006010204,000/8,0001,000123870,000/140,00017,50012
3250/5006010215,000/10,0001,250123980,000/160,00020,00012
4300/6007510226,000/12,0001,500124090,000/180,00022,50012
5400/80010010237,000/14,0001,7501241100,000/200,00025,00012
6500/1,00012510248,000/16,0002,0001242120,000/240,00030,00012
7600/1,200150102510,000/20,0002,5001243140,000/280,00035,00012
8700/1,400175102612,000/24,0003,0001244160,000/320,00040,00012
9800/1,600200102714,000/28,0003,5001245180,000/360,00045,00012
10900/1,800225102816,000/32,0004,0001246200,000/400,00050,00012
111,000/2,000250102918,000/36,0004,5001247250,000/500,00062,50012
121,200/2,400300103020,000/40,0005,0001248300,000/600,00075,00012
131,400/2,800350103125,000/50,0006,2501249350,000/700,00087,50012
141,600/3,200400103230,000/60,0007,5001250400,000/800,000100,00012
151,800/3,600450103335,000/70,0008,7501251450,000/900,000112,50012
162,000/4,000500123440,000/80,00010,0001252500,000/1,000,000125,00012
172,500/5,000625123545,000/90,00011,2501253600,000/1,200,000150,00012
183,000/6,000750123650,000/100,00012,5001254700,000/1,400,000175,00012

WPT Online Borgata Series Schedule

The WPT Online Borgata Series, which runs from September 13-21, is comprised of 10 events with more than $275,000 in preliminary and post-lim guarantees. The highlighted tournaments will be live reported here on PokerNews.

DayDateTimeEvent/TournamentBuy-In
Saturday9/19/207:30 PMWPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES #7: HEADS UP - 32 MAX BRACKET$535.00
Saturday9/19/207:30 PMQUALIFIER into WPT $215 Satellite - 5 seats GTD NLH$45.00
Saturday9/19/207:30 PMWPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES #8: $30K GTD PROGRESSIVE KNOCKOUT - BOUNTY$320.00
Saturday9/19/208:00 PMPHASE 1 into WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES Main Event$109.00
Saturday9/19/208:30 PMSATELLITE: WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES Main Event - 10 seats GTD NLH$215.00
     
Sunday9/20/203:00 PMSATELLITE: Boosted Turbo WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES Main Event - 10 seats GTD NLH$215.00
Sunday9/20/205:00 PMWPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES PHASE 2 - $1060 Buy-In Main Event powered by partypoker US Network$1,060.00
Sunday9/20/208:00 PMWPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES #9: $20K GTD TURBO PROGRESSIVE KNOCKOUT - BOUNTY$215.00
     
Monday9/21/207:00 PMWPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES PHASE 2 - DAY 2 LIVE STREAMED FINAL TABLE 
Monday9/21/208:00 PMWPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES #10: $20K GTD TURBO PROGRESSIVE KNOCKOUT - BOUNTY$215.00

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Event #8: $30K GTD Progressive Knockout Bounty

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