Event 1
The 2018 Borgata Poker Open came to a close in the early morning hours of Saturday morning when the 21st BPO trophy found a new home.
Erkut ‘Eric’ Yilmaz
About eight hours earlier, Erkut Yilmaz took 1st place in the Championship event, along with $575,112 and both BPO and WPT Champions Cup trophies. Yilmaz took a huge lead into the final day of the Championship and held that lead until heads-up with poker pro Timothy ‘TK’ Miles. They proceeded to battle for more than two hours, with the lead changing several times, before Yilmaz finally collected all the chips and the title. Miles added another $383,399 to his career earnings, pushing the total past $3.2 million.
This series saw a lot of firsts. For the first time, the BPO was not held in the Event Center, but in a temporary Tournament Area between the Poker Room and Signature Room. This was a one-time occurence and this area will now he turned into the new Borgata Sports Book. The Winter Poker Open in January will be back in the Event Center as usual.
Another first was buy-in guarantees on the non-No Limit Hold’em events. The Omaha/Stud High/Low, HORSE, and PLO tournaments all had guarantees for the first time ever. There was also an “Old School” Freeze-out NLH tournament with no re-entries, and a Double Black Chip Bounty tournament added to this year’s schedule.
Justin Leeds (seated) took 1st in Event 1 in a 4-way adjusted payout.
Justin Leeds claimed the top spot in the $1 Million GTD Kick-Off event, which saw 3,106 entrants. The final four players all took home more than $170,000 for their efforts in the three-day event.
Altogether, the series had $7.6 million in guarantees and paid out more than $8.3 million in prize money in Main Events alone, not including secondary and satellite events. A complete list of Main Event winners and their winnings is below.
*Indicates Adjusted Payout
The next major tournament series is the Fall Poker Open, which runs November 6th through the 21st, so start making plans now. The tournament schedule has not yet been released. Follow @BorgataPoker on Twitter to catch the announcement when it is. Until then, Borgata’s regular schedule of Daily Tournaments will resume. For those of you in New Jersey, there’s alway another tournament coming up on BorgataPoker.com. October 14th – 21st, the Garden State Super Series (GSSS) will be running with more than $450,000 in guarantees.
For now, it’s farewell from the Borgata Blogging team of Tim Kelliher, Chris Murray, Al Rash, Brittany Paige, and myself. Hope to see you in November during the Fall Poker Open!
@Kaelaine
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$1,500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet | Payouts
Level 39: 400,000/800,000/800,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 3,106
Players Remaining: 4
(L to R) Daniel Park, Justin Leeds (Seated) Jacob Naumann, Donny Maloney
Event 4 of the Borgata Summer Poker drew a massive field of 3,106 creating a prize pool of $1,626,923. We were down to the final four players and the chips continued to change hands.
After more than an hour of four handed play the players began to discuss and adjusted payout deal. It didn’t take long for them to agree to split the remaining prize pool evenly.
The players shook hands and all four took home $170,535. Justin Leeds who held the chip lead at the time takes home his first Borgata Poker Open trophy.
Leeds had just two recorded tournament cashes prior to this for just over $5,000 and now adds a hefty six figure score and the BPO title to his poker resume.
Below is a look at the chip stacks at the time of the adjusted payout agreement.
Justin Leeds- 28,300,000
Donny Maloney- 19,800,000
Jacob Naumann- 17,200,000
Daniel Park- 12,300,000
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$1,500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet | Payouts
Level 39: 400,000/800,000/800,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 3,106
Players Remaining: 4
Danny Park
Donny Maloney raised to 1,800,000 from the button and Danny Park moved all in from the small blind for 7,000,000. Maloney called turning over 
but would need to improve against the 
of Park.
The 
runout was no help to either player and Park’s ace high was enough to earn him the double up.
Danny Park- 15,600,000
Donny Maloney- 7,000,000
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$1,500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet | Payouts
Level 38: 300,000/600,000/600,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 3,106
Players Remaining: 4
Justin Leeds
Danny Park raised to 1,300,000 and Justin Leeds called from the small blind. They went heads up to the 
and Leeds check-called a bet of 1,300,000 from Park.
Both players checked the turn card and the river was the 
. Leeds checked to Park for a third time and Park bet 2,500,000.
Leeds thought it over for about 30-seconds and slid the calling chips forward. “Good call” said Park firing his hand into the muck and Leeds turned over 
to take the pot.
Justin Leeds- 29,000,000
Danny Park- 4,500,000
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$1,500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet | Payouts
Level 38: 300,000/600,000/600,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 3,106
Players Remaining: 4
Justin Leeds
Justin Leeds and Danny Park were heads up on the 
board and there was already over 9,000,000 in the main pot.
Park moved all in and Leeds nearly beat him into the pot for his last 7,300,000. Park turned over 
for a turned straight but he was drawing dead against the 
of Leeds.
The meaningless 
hit the river and Leeds earned the pot and the double up holding the nut flush.
Justin Leeds- 23,500,000
Danny Park- 7,000,000
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$1,500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet | Payouts
Level 38: 300,000/600,000/600,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 3,106
Players Remaining: 4
Kevin Lutz
Kevin Lutz moved all in for his last 3,400,000 from under the gun and Jacob Naumann called from the small blind. Justin Leeds folded his big blind and the hands were shown.
Jacob Naumann: 
Kevin Lutz: 
The board ran out 
and Naumann improved to trip jacks to score the knockout. Lutz is our 5th place Event 1 finisher and will take home $81,753 for his efforts.
Jacob Naumann- 25,000,000
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$1,500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet | Payouts
Level 38: 300,000/600,000/600,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 3,106
Players Remaining: 5
Jacob Naumann
In one of the first hands back from dinner Jacob Naumann raised to 1,200,000. Danny Park called from the big blind and they went heads up to the 
flop.
Park check-called a bet of 1,200,000 from Naumann and the dealer burned and turned the 
. Park checked and Naumann bet 1,600,000.
Park called and the completed the board. Park checked and Naumann threw out a bet of 2,200,000. Park called and Naumann turned over 
. Park fired his hand face down into the muck and Naumann took the pot.
Jacob Naumann- 21,500,000
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$1.5 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet | Payouts
Returning to Level 38: Blinds 300,000/600,000/600,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 3,106
Players Remaining: 5
Average Stack: 15.5 million
While the Event 1 players are on dinner break, we got the chip counts, so here’s what they’re stacking:
Donny Maloney – 27.6 million (46 big blinds)
Danny Park – 18.1 million
Jacob Naumann – 16.5 million
Justin Leeds – 11.7 million
Kevin Lutz – 3.7 million (6 big blinds)
Here are the remaining payouts:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $279,476 |
| 2 | $182,541 |
| 3 | $119,660 |
| 4 | $100,462 |
| 5 | $81,753 |
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$1.5 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet | Payouts
End of Level 37: Blinds 250,000/500,000/500,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 3,106
Players Remaining: 5
Average Stack: 15.5 million
Justin Leeds
In a battle of the blinds, Jacob Nauman (sb) and Justin Leeds (bb) both put in half a million on the flop of 
. The turn was checked around and the completed the board.
Jacob bet 875,000 and after a bit of thought, Justin called. Jacob rolled over for the missed open-ender. Justin showed for a pair of 4s to take the pot.
One more hand and the level was done. The final five took off for a one-hour dinner break. Play will resume at 7:50pm.
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$1.5 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet | Payouts
Level 37: Blinds 250,000/500,000/500,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 3,106
Players Remaining: 5
Average Stack: 15.5 million
Donny Maloney
Justin Leeds opened for 1.1 million from the cutoff, getting called by Kevin Lutz (button), Donny Maloney (sb), and Danny Park (bb).
The flop fell and they checked around with 4.9 million already in the pot. The turn was the and Danny led out for 1,650,000. Everyone folded and Danny claimed the dead money. He’s got more than 26 million.