Event 3
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$200,000 Guarantee Structure | Payouts
End of Level 29: 40,000/80,000/80,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 781
Players Remaining: 6
Average Chips: 3,200,000
The last six.
Estimated Chip counts by seat
- Jaana Kindsigo 1.825 m
- Guillermo Hamilton 3.9 m
- Jackie Liu 4.2 m
- Chris Lee 3.8 m
- Thayer Rasmussen 1.4 m
- Blake Whittington 4.1 m
$350+$50+$100 Black Chip Bounty Deep Stack NLH
$200,000 Guarantee Structure | Payouts
Level 29: 40,000/80,000/80,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 781
Players Remaining: 6
Average Chips: 3,200,000
Collection: Thayer Rasmussen felts John Rocaberte with Aces.
Rocaberte is out in 8th, victim of trickily played aces from the button. John takes home $7,292.
Rocaberte is done.
Jaana contemplates a river bet from Jackie, foreground on 6d 5s 5s Ks 2h, but eventually finds a safe fold.
Soon afterward, Chris Lee opens 
and calls Zheng Wu’s shove with 
. An unnecessary 6 flops, and it’s curtains for Wu.
Zheng laddered to $9,545 with his shortstack – well done.
$350+$50+$100 Black Chip Bounty Deep Stack NLH
$200,000 Guarantee Structure | Payouts
Level 28: 30,000/60,000/60,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 781
Players Remaining: 8
Chris Lee, and the rest of the table, carefully observe Jackie Liu’s hand about to drop in a 600,000 value bet. He’s also about to pay it off. “I always have it,” Jackie explains.
Thayer folds to a Whittington turn raise. “I had a pair,” he explains… but did let it go on a board full of possible bluffs, the Ac 10d 8d 4c.
Estimated Chip counts by seat
- Jaana Kindsigo 2.6 m
- Guillermo Hamilton 3.2 m
- Jackie Liu 3.2 m
- Chris Lee 3.0 m
- Thayer Rasmussen 1.2 m
- John Rocaberte 900,000
- Zheng Wu 800,000
- Blake Whittington 4.1 m
$350+$50+$100 Black Chip Bounty Deep Stack NLH
$200,000 Guarantee Structure | Payouts
Level 28: 30,000/60,000/60,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 781
Players Remaining: 8
Estimated Chip counts by seat
- Ryan M. (busted)
- Jaana Kindsigo 2.8 m
- Guillermo Hamilton 2.8 m
- Jackie Liu 2.2 m
- Chris Lee 3.7 m
- Thayer Rasmussen 1.7 m
- John Rocaberte 900,000
- Zheng Wu 800,000
- Blake Whittington 3.8
In a tense pot with action on every street, Blake shoved river with top set and was snap called by Ryan M. He’s out for a nice $5,038.
Blake paused before the all in. Spectators behind seem amused with themselves.
$350+$50+$100 Black Chip Bounty Deep Stack NLH
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End of Level 27: 30,000/50,000/50,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 781
Players Remaining: 9
Blake Whittington just knocked out a shortstack shove, bringing us to the ten handed final table.
The players draw new seats at table 1, and we get going here in level 27 with a quick knockout.
We’re at the official nine. GL!
Guillermo Hamilton has taken the lead over Blake, here stacking a small pot from Thayer Rasumussen.
Whittington is waiting on the button for the shove with AK. He’s back at 2.6 million after flushing out JJ.
Chip counts next.
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Level 26: 20,000/40,000/40,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 781
Players Remaining: 13
Blake Whittington
Event 3 of the Borgata Poker Open is the $500 Black Chip Bounty Deep Stack NLH. There were a total of 781 entries and we are now just three eliminations away from the final table.
Three time WSOP Circuit ring winner Blake Whittington is leading the way with 3,550,000. Whittington already holds one Borgata Poker title after winning the 570 entry $400 Saturday Series NLH event in the 2015 Borgata Poker Open.
He took home $48,185 and the miniature Borgata hotel trophy and he’s now closing in on his second BPO title.
Whittington is not alone at the top of the chip counts as Jaana Kindsigo is right on his heels with 3,300,000.
Jaana Kindsigo
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $61,518 |
| 2 | $35,795 |
| 3 | $21,875 |
| 4 | $18,030 |
| 5 | $14,583 |
| 6 | $11,932 |
| 7 | $9,545 |
| 8 | $7,292 |
| 9 | $5,038 |
| 10 – 12 | $3,314 |
| 13 – 15 | $2,386 |
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Structure | Payouts
Level 22: Blinds 8,000/16,000/16,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 781
Players Remaining: 33
We have reached that point of the day when dinner breaks abound around the poker areas. Four of the five major tournaments on the schedule are now on an hour-long dinner break, the lone holdout being the recently started Super Survivor.
The Black Chip Bounty tournament will return at 8pm with 33 players still in the hunt for a trophy.
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Structure | Payouts
Level 21: Blinds 6,000/12,000/12,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 781
Players Remaining: 38
Jason Ebersole
The Black Chip Bounty is cruising right along in the Signature Room. The slow structure is still in effect and there are still five tables in play after six hours of Day 2 action.
Jason Ebersole had the second biggest stack at the restart and he now has the biggest with just shy of 1,000,000.
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Level 18: Blinds 3,000/6,000/6,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 781
Players Remaining: 72
Michael Wang
It took a little while to get there but Event 3 is finally in the money with 72 players remaining. The tournament went into hand-for-hand mode when it was one away from the money with the clock paused and two minutes coming off per hand.
There were two early, small doubles but it took five hands over 30 minutes for the bubble to burst.
And it was almost a double bubble.
Greg Yeager was all in and at risk for his last approximate 175,000 after the 
flop. His 
was in trouble against his opponent’s trip queens 
and the 
turn did not help. The table erupted when the two-out 
river hit the board and Yeager had a double.
On another table, also with a flop out, WSOP bracelet winner Michael Wang was all in for 56,000 with the board reading 
. “Psycho Marc” Masino had him at risk but Wang’s two pair was ahead of Masino’s two pair 
. The 
turn was clean for Wang but it was another tough river, the 
, to fill Masino’s boat to send Wang out on the bubble.
“Psycho Marc” Masino
Greg Yeager found a double on the bubble
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Structure | Payouts
Level 17: Blinds 3,000/5,000/5,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 781
Players Remaining: 80
Jackie Liu
Black Chip Bounty players took their first break of the day as tournament staff pulled the 500 denom chips out of play and neaten up some stacks.
There are only 80 players still in the game with 72 getting paid so the money bubble is quickly approaching. Those still in contention include Jackie Liu and Jon Borenstein (pictured) along with Eric Seigel, Zach Donovan, and Jose Reyes.
Jon Borenstein