Level 15 (2,000/4,000/400) Total Entrants: 397 Players Remaining: 120 Average Stack: 132,300 The Event 21 field is on their dinner break, following 15 levels of play. Approximately 120 players remain and play will resume at 8:30 pm. Once play restarts 60-minutes from now, the Borgata Poker Open blog shall return with a look at the […]
Level 14 (1,500/3,000/400) Total Entrants: 397 Players Remaining: 140 Average Stack: 113,400 Andrew Klein is notorious for his success in Borgata Deep Stack events and is putting that prowess on display in Event 21. Klein is playing close to 300,000 and among the chip leaders midway through today’s tournament. Klein closed out the 2016 Spring Poker […]
Level 13 (1,200/2,400/300) Total Entrants: 397 Players Remaining: 158 Average Stack: 100,500 The Event 21 field is on another break and will return to play two more levels before the dinner break. The field is below 160 players and the average stack is going to be under 35 big blinds once play resumes. There will […]
Level 12 (1,000/2,000/200) Total Entrants: 397 Players Remaining: 180 Average Stack: 88,200 Already in the field, there are multiple players over 200,000. Leading the pack at this time is Mitchell Mantin. Earlier in the Borgata Poker Open, Mantin final tabled and was part of the six-way deal in Event 6. The Deeper Stack structure saw Mantin do […]
Level 11 (800/1,600/200) Total Entrants: 397 Players Remaining: 195 Average Stack: 81,400 The registration period is at an end for Event 21 and the total prize pool is $77,018. The $50,000 guarantee was easily surpassed and a total of 36 players will earn a cash of at least $478. The first place prize of $20,791 […]
Level 10 (600/1,200/200) Total Entrants: 386 The registration period in Event 21 is almost at an end as Level 10 winds to a close. Players are about to head out on a break and the cage will close once Level 11 starts. The $50,000 guarantee is long gone and we should see the field size creep […]
Level 9 (500/1,000/100) Total Entrants: 372 Borgata’s all-time leader in tournament cashes Howard Wolper has yet to get on track this series but perhaps that will change in Event 21. Wolper made a lot of noise during the recent DeepStacks Challenge, making two final tables and earning almost $7,000 in the process. These Deep Stack events play […]
Level 8 (400/800/75) Total Entrants: 362 Before he won the Colossus event at this summer’s World Series of Poker, Thomas Pomponio grinded Borgata events on a regular basis. In fact, most of Pomponio’s non-Colossus winnings have come at the Borgata. During the 2016 Winter Poker Open, Pomponio won the Deeper Stack event for a solid $23,000 score. That […]
Level 7 (300/600/75) Total Entrants: 330 The $50,000 guarantee set for Event 21 was hit in the early levels of today and heading into the second break of the day, the field has produced a prize pool of $66,000. That number will grow larger with registration open until the start of Level 11. Once the […]
Level 6 (200/400/50) Total Entrants: 268 Everyone who entered this week’s BPO Championship has a story of how they made it in but none are like Jim McLaughlin’s. By qualifying through ClubWPT, McLaughlin through a freeroll and played for the second time in this event. Midway through Day 2, McLaughlin was among the chip leaders […]