Event 1 (Day 1B)
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$1.5 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 17 (complete): Blinds 3000/5000/5000 BB ante
Flight 1B Entrants: 409
Remaining: 65
Average Chips: 157,000
Flight 1B is complete.
Zhou Jiang contemplates a decision on table 1. He is best in this flight with 530,000.
Greg Himmelbrand bagged 425,000.
Other notable stacks include:
Nimrath Rean – 416,000
David Rounick – 311,000
Derek Sudell – 361,000
Otavio Alves – 419,000
The official list of chip counts and seat draws will be posted when ready.
Desperation: Table 2 short stacks lose their mind on the final hand of the night, with Bovic Gabriel knocking out three in one hand with KhQh. Bovic, counting out a call in seat 2, goes from average stacked to 241,000.
Day 2 begins Friday at noon. Meanwhile, Flight 1C continues, and is open for registration, in the Signature Room.
Good luck!
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Structure Sheet
Level 16: Blinds 2000/4000/4000 BB ante
Flight 1B Entrants: 409
Remaining: 80
Average Chips: 127,000
Change of fortunes on 1. The aggressive Wang appears to have gotten into trouble, salvaging his bullet this flight by getting in his last 50,000 with 
over 
and holding.
Zhou Jiang now has the stack at this table and for the flight with two levels to go.
Jiang has 500,000 and proper tournament bearing.
WPT Borgata final tablist Stephen Song has snuck in late and has a nice 300,000, no sweat.
Otavio Alves on 5 has also quietly moved up the ladder, approaching 400,000.
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Structure Sheet
Level 15: Blinds 1500/3000/3000 BB ante
Flight 1B Entrants: 409
Remaining: 88
Average Chips: 116000
The final stretch of this flight has begun, with less than three levels to go.
The biggest current stack is Greg Himmelbrand’s. He just got away from nines in a strange spot where the General said “Merry Christmas!” and shoved 25,000 over the raise and a flat. Surprisingly, Nhan Cao then shoved his remaining chips in, getting a fold from Greg but a call from pocket eights in the field.
The charismatic General did not really mean Merry Christmas when he got it in. Cao, on his left with crossed arms, sucks out hard after the inexplicable shove.
Improbably, Cao got the near quadruple with an optimistic 
, beating the General’s and that middle pair when a ten fell on the river.
Himmelbrand saves some chips by folding the nines. He has 380,00. Daniel Chan on his left is also healthy with over 260,000.
Wang on 1 is up to 350,000 keeping pace.
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Structure Sheet
Level 14: Blinds 1500/2500/2500 BB ante
Flight 1B Entrants: 409
Remaining: 107
Average Chips: 95,000
The tables are consolidating quickly as the players expend their final and most meaningful bullet – at least for this flight.
On 4, one unlucky player opened 
from early, picking up a short stacked Dan DiZenzo and Santos Caminiti with well over average.
On 
, the aggressor cbet, losing Dan but getting a call from the in position Santos.
On what appeared to be a poor continuation card, the 
, the opener now splashed in 20,000. The hand had reached mass, and Caminiti ripped it in over the suspicious bet. However, he was snapped off by the opener’s set of sixes.
No problem, Santos had 
, and found a flush on the river. His opponent was hesitant to leave, not believing his bad luck.
Santos pulls in the pot. Dan DiZenzo, left, is still waiting for equally good fortune. On Santos’ left, Bill, also with a good stack, enjoys some take out.
Caminiti is now a big stack with over 220,000.
Nearby, John N. opened from EP and picked up a modest four callers. He checked a king a high flop, unwilling to risk a bet into such a crowd. Stephen Frieda shoved 
for value and protection, getting a call from the hapless 
. The brave call more than doubled Frieda to 100,000.
Frieda goes over the spot with Rags, left. Ragavan is in the danger zone at present.
Break chip leader Wang, meanwhile, has been moved to table one, with David Jackson on his left.
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Structure Sheet
End of Level 12: Blinds 800/1500/1500 BB ante
An active and aggressive player on table 16 has surpassed Rounick for the lead as we take the registration break.
Yi Yao Wang has pushed past 250,000.
In one hand with Larry O’Halloran, Wang open called a short stack’ raise, then lead jammed a naked ace into 
. O’Halloran called with , the short stack with . The two chopped up the pot when another 
fell.
Only a brief setback for Wang, however, whose stack has won and lost over 100,000 in chips in just a few orbits. He is VPIPing very high and playing tough, taking some back from Larry a few hands later.
We head to break.
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Structure Sheet
End of Level 11: Blinds 600/1200/1200 BB ante
Registration for flight 1B will close at the end of the next break.
David Rounick on 6 is just ahead of couple other stacks, currently over 200,000. Po Wing, a BPO reg, is on his left.
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Level 10: Blinds 500/1000/600 BB ante
In Seat 2 Donna DiCrescento had opened with 
, and picked up more action than even the third best hand in NL likes.
Four way on 
, Donna met resistance from Anna Antimony who got her remaining stack in after Men “The Master” Nguyen and another flatter got out of the way. Donna had to make the call against the short shortstack with her high heart, possibly ahead of Anna’s draws.
However, Antimony turned over 
, and Donna was behind. The turn brought the last three, ending the hand right there.
Anna happily drags in the pot, nearly tripling past 50,000.
Antimony took down the very next pot with an open and a cbet, now with a playable stack.
However, it’s Men who is proving Masterly at 13 – he has over 150,000 and is one of the big stacks in the room. Howard Charyn is on his right.
Meanwhile, Mike McGuiness, formerly on 2, is now on table 1 and active as always.
Jackson, left, has to be surprised by getting raised in this formation. McGuinness shields his face, looking down.
From UTG in level 9, Jackson min-plus raised to 1700, then McGuinness made it 4000 from UTG1. The table folded around to Jackson, who needed some time to consider.
David flatted the raise, and the dealer dropped a dry 
. Jackson check folded to the cbet quickly.
Maybe Mike really did have something, for once.
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Structure Sheet
End of Level 8: Blinds 300/600/600 BB ante
On ten, the champ, Joe McKeehen, in action and dealing with the multi-way pots of the early levels.
In one, his preflop raise, picked up five callers, including Borgata reg Michael Dobbs. On 
, Dobbs simply bomb the flop with a lead of 25,000, representing the queen or at least counting on no one having one of the other two in the deck.
Michael Dobbs is seeing flops.
The bet folded out Joe, but picked up a short stack and Dave Marnell who had limped in from EP. On the blank , Dobbs shipped it. One fold, and Marnell found a quick call. Surely he had on of the queens.
Dobbs fades the draw, and the dealer counts down his win. Marnell looks on from her right in seat 10, a card away from felting Michael.
Yet, no. Marnell has 
for the second nut draw. He’s looking to gamble and pick up a stack. His king is good too, as Michael has an ambitious 
.
No club, no king, Dobbs nearly triples.
“I’m back where I started,” Michael commented, referencing an earlier beat.
Meanwhile, McKeehen presses on, here checking back the next flop, before taking it down on the turn against Dobbs, who had snuck in cheaply with a limp.
We now take a short break.
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Structure Sheet
Level 7: Blinds 300/500/500 BB ante
We pick up live action in the second flight of the Kickoff event.
Kevin Grabel, a consistent threat in Borgata tournaments, had opened from EP and picked up a BB defense from Antonio Schiano.
Grabel, here a little light with 
, must have been very pleased with the convenient 
, and getting action from Schiano.
Even on the blank turn, everything would normally be good for Kevin. However, he must have history with Antonio because he was very displeased with the 15k lead from Antonio in a now ballooning pot.
No room to just call: Grabel, right, doesn’t like the spot or Schiano’s apparent comfortable demeanor.
Surely a float with the gutters or an open ender was possible, or maybe a value hand like 
? In any case, after a tank, he shipped in his stack and Schiano snap called.
However, it was all an illusion: Schiano had found a natural call with , and they chopped it up.
Take your bets back: Grabel happy again.
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Structure Sheet
Level 1: Blinds 50/100
The second starting flight of the Kickoff event is underway in the temporary tournament area between Poker and Signature Rooms. This will be a repeat of Flight A, albeit with lots more players. If they fill all 32 tables in this area, we’ll overflow into the Signature Room.
Players get 25,000 chips to start and all Day 1 levels are 30 minutes long. They’ll play seventeen levels, then bag up for the night. Flight A saw 288 entrants take to the felt, of which only about 40 managed to get chips in a bag. Today’s flight should top those numbers easily.
Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of level 13 (about 5:45pm). The survivors will bag up at the end of Level 17, at about 8:30pm, and return Friday at noon for Day 2.