Event 1 (Day 1E)

Level 35 (Blinds 150,000/300,000/40,000)
Total Entries: 4,158
Players Remaining: 11
Chip Average: 7,560,000
Average Big Blinds: 25.2

John Miller was eliminated in 12th place, and players are currently hand-for-hand to determine who the final 10 players will be at tomorrow’s live-streamed final table.

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Level 34 (Blinds 120,000/240,000/30,000)
Total Entries: 4,158
Players Remaining: 16
Chip Average: 5,197,500
Average Big Blinds: 21.7

By far the biggest pot of the tournament just resulted in the first player to eclipse 12 million chips.

And 13 million.

And 14 million.

Keep going.

Aaron Massey has approximately 15.4 million chips after sitting down to pocket rockets in his first hand after being reassigned to Table 2 following the elimination of Steve Edwards in 17th place.

Sitting under the gun, Massey put out a pre-flop raise to 500,000. Steven Robertine made the call before Byron Washington re-popped for another 940,000 on top. Massey flat-called and Robertine went all-in over the top, having both Massey and Washington covered.

Byron toiled with the decision for several minutes before deciding to fold. After the hand, he said he had Big Slick.

Massey snap-called and flipped up pocket Aces that had Robertine’s pocket Jacks dominated. The board ran out {Ks}{10s}{7h}{6d}{9d}, and Massey more than doubled up to become the overwhelming chip leader with just 6 eliminations remaining until the final table is set.

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Level 28 (Blinds 30,000/60,000/5,000)
Total Entries: 4,185
Players Remaining: 55

The following players have cashed in Event 1 of the 2014 Borgata Poker Open for $3,529:

73. (Not Yet Reported)
74. Nicholas Tlizrcio
75. Prabhu Dyal
76. Nelson Inacio
77. Guy Maxtone-Graham
78. Stephen Scales
79. David Isaacs
80. A. Nonymous
81. Ahmed Mohamed

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Level 26 (Blinds 20,000/40,000/5,000)
Total Entries: 4,158
Players Remaining: 105

Tournament Director Tab Duchateau has just announced the beginning of Level 26, with the blinds now going up to 20,000/40,000/5,000.  The chip average amongst the remaining players sits at 792,000, which equates to (20) big blinds.  The (20) big blinds average is the smallest we have seen today, which could mean some increased action over the next few levels.

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Level 25 (Blinds 15,000/30,000/4,000)
Total Entries: 4,158
Players Remaining: 128

The following players have cashed in Event 1 of the 2014 Borgata Poker Open for $1,855:

151. Temp Hutter
152. Dennis Wilber
153. Matthew Salsberg
154. Ahmed Fayazi-Azad
155. Alan Scott
156. Frank Labate
157. Michael Matrone
158. Jeffrey Perricone
159. Paul Feinstein
160. Jack Battaglia

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Level 25 (Blinds 15,000/30,000/4,000)
Total Entries: 4,158
Players Remaining: 130

The following players have cashed in Event 1 of the 2014 Borgata Poker Open for $1,704:

161. Scott Neuman
162. Chin Du
163. Ryan Wince
164. Frank Molinari
165. Daniel Dizenzo
166. Gregory Pacifico
167. Johnny Anderson
168. Gene Mulroy
169. Anthony Baliette
170. Guoliang Chen

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Level 23 (Blinds 10,000/20,000/3,000)
Total Entries: 4,158
Players Remaining: 197

Less than two hundred players now remain as the field goes on another (10) minute break.  Players will return to Level 23 and blinds of 10,000/20,000/3,000, with the chip average sitting at 422,000 (21 big blinds).  It may sound repetitive, but Johnson Nguyen (Philadelphia, PA) continues to trend steadily upwards, as he looks to become the first player to eclipse the 2,000,000.  Johnson goes to break as the chip leader and leaves a stack of 1,850,000 on the table as he walks away.

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Below is a list of all the players playing in Day 2, in chip count order. To find an alphabetized list of these players, along with table and seat number for each player, click HERE.

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Level 18 (Blinds 3,000/6,000/500)
(Unofficial) Flight 1E Entries: 1,326
Flight 1E Players Remaining: 145

(Unofficial) Total Day 1 Entries: 4,162
Overall Players Remaining: 461
Chip Average: 180,000 (22.5 big blinds)

Gaurav Raina (706,000 chips)

Justin Kadet (599,000 chips)

Matt Parry (422,000 chips)

Gaurav Raina went on an absolute tear in the final level to become the overall chip leader entering Day 2.

Raina won huge pots on back-to-back hands. On the first, he announced before the flop that he got “The hand (he) was waiting for all day.” Ironically, so did the player that he eliminated when Gaurav’s pocket fives cracked pocket Aces with a {5x} on the turn. The next hand, Raina’s pocket Kings held up against another player’s pocket Queens, leading him to become the first player to eclipse the 700,000 mark. He finished the night with 706,000 chips.

Not too far behind him and in third-place overall was Justin Kadet. Kadet said he was down to 5,000 chips in Level 7 before catching NBA Jam fire and soaring to 599,000 chips at the night’s end.

Third place in the Event Center belonged to Matt Parry who finished the night with 422,000.

It’ll be a quick turnaround for the players who survived the night with Day 2 starting at 11am tomorrow morning. They’ll be lucky to get six hours of sleep before a long grind that won’t end until the field is down to just 10 players who will return for Day 3 on Saturday.

In the morning when it is available, a list of the seating chart and starting chip stacks for Day 2 will be posted here.

In addition to Day 2 of Event 1, Friday will also feature Event 3 ($350 + $50 + $100 Deep Stack NLHE Bounty) and Day 1 of Event 4 ($450 + $50 PLO8). We’ll be bringing you coverage of all three events right here on the blog. Be sure to follow and tweet at @BorgataPoker, and tag your tweets with #BorgataPokerOpen, #BorgataPoker or #BPO to appear on the Tweet Wall or to have your tweets appear in the blog.

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Level 18 (Blinds 3,000/6,000/500)
Flight 1E Entries: Approx. 1,326
Players Remaining: Approx. 170
Chip Average: Approx. 156,000

Matt Itkin (Oceanside, NY)

Matt Itkin has been grinding hard for the past 5 hours. He never quite seems to be the shortest stack at the table, but he certainly hasn’t been anything close to the table’s chip leader in quite some time.

The divide was very evident before Table 15 broke. Seated to Itkin’s immediate left was one of the room’s chip leaders, Justin Kadet.

Itkin still has a stack that represents a little more than half the chip average, and he’s hoping to make it last another 25 minutes. He busted in the final level of last night’s 1C flight, and would love to avoid a similar fate tonight.

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