Event 20 (Day 1B)
Level 8 (Blinds 300/600/75)
Total Day 1 Entrants: 1,226
Day 1A Players Remaining: 171 / 400
Day 1B Players Remaining: 413 / 826
Total Day 2 Players: 552
Chip Leader – Darlene Lee
Julio Marrero
Mike Linster
With more than 400 players bagging chips, we inevitably missed a number of big stacks. A full chip count will be provided in the morning, but here are the top stacks we saw bagging up tonight.
Darlene Lee led the way with 254,900 chips and will start Day 2 as the 2nd-biggest stack in the tournament, trailing Benny Bianco’s 389,000 chips from Day 1A.
Julio Marrero took 2nd place for the night, bagging 208,300 chips on Table 6. And Borgata regular Mike Linster had the third-biggest stack that we found, bagging 180,800.
Dozens of other notables bagged for the night, including:
Joseph Brattole – 180,000
Jack “Kash” Kashishian – 175,000
Keven Stammen – 145,600
David Jackson – 128,800
Scott Baumstein – 108,600
Steve Dannenman – 105,000
VIP Nguyen – 89,500
Michael Marder – 88,800
Paul Sokoloff – 81,000
Ken Silberstein – 70,000
Rabbit Everson – 67,700
Ian Davis – 67,500
Steve Scales – 66,900
Marshall White – 66,800
Mike Gagliano – 58,500
Dan Dizenzo – 55,600
Daryl Boatright – 52,100
D.J. MacKinnon – 46,700
Scott Blumstein – 45,000
Mike Dentale – 40,000
Gary Raina – 40,000
Matt Itkin – 40,000
Malik Rose – 29,100
Joe McKeehen – 28,800
Dave Fox – 26,200
Ebony Kenney – 20,800
Joe Reddick – 20,300
Mike Sexton – 18,000
Chalie Hook – 8,500
Anthony Maio – 6,900
Along with hundreds of other, those players will be back and resuming play at 12 noon on Tuesday.
Event 21 ($500 + $60 Big Stack NLHE) will also be taking place tomorrow at 11am.
Level 8 (Blinds 300/600/75)
Total Day 1 Entrants: 1,226
Total Day 1B Entrants: 826
Day 1B Players Remaining: 468
Day 1B Chip Average: 53,000 (88 big blinds)
Gary Raina
Sitting in hijack position and facing two early bets of 1,500, Gary Raina re-raised to 5,400 before the small blind pushed all-in, having Raina covered.
Action folded back around to Gary and he made the call with {Ah}{Ks}. With his opponent holding {Kd}{Kh}, Raina was a long shot to survive.
Flop: {Ad}{10s}{2d}
Turn: {6s}
River: {3h}
Raina got his ace on the flop and more than doubled up to about 45,000. Nothing close to the 700,000 he bagged at the end of Day 1 of Event 1, but a bag is a bag is a bag in this main event.
Level 8 (Blinds 300/600/75)
Total Day 1 Entrants: 1,226
Total Day 1B Entrants: 826
Day 1B Players Remaining: 468
Day 1B Chip Average: 53,000 (88 big blinds)
With 15 minutes left and well more than 400 players left in the field, the list of notables still out there is well over 50 players long.
We’ll see how many of them survive the next few minutes and actually bag chips for the night.
The current chip leader has 205,000, but expect that to change as players look to increase the number of chips they bag for Day 2.
Borgata Poker Open
Event 20 – $3300 + $200 WPT Championship NLHE
September 14-19, 2014
Total Entries: 1,226
Total Prize Fund: $3,924,426
Payouts:
- $843,744
- $500,364
- $308,067
- $259,012
- $213,999
- $174,637
- $135,393
- $100,073
- $71,621
10-12. $46,701
13-15. $31,395
16-18. $20,996
19-27. $17,385
28-36. $15,109
37-45. $13,147
46-54. $11,342
55-63. $9,811
64-72. $8,438
73-81. $7,770
82-90. $7,378
91-100. $7,064
101-110. $6,868
111-120. $6,750
Level 8 (Blinds 300/600/75)
Total Day 1 Entrants: 1,226
Total Day 1B Entrants: 826
Day 1B Players Remaining: 495
Day 1B Chip Average: 50,000 (83 big blinds)
Mike Brown
UTG, UTG+1 and UTG+3 all limped the 600 big blind before cutoff raised to 3,000. Mike Brown made the call under the gun and Pofuk Ying came along at UTG+1 for a three-way flop.
Flop: {Qd}{9s}{6s}
Brown and Ying checked and Cutoff was once again the aggressor for 5,200. Brown had his trap set, though, and check-raised to 11,500. Ying got out of the hand before Cutoff pushed all-in for about 30,000. Brown immediately called.
Brown: {Ah}{Qh} Cutoff: {Kd}{Jh}
Unless he was really feeling that gutshot straight draw, he was on a stone cold bluff that got caught.
Turn: {8c}
River: {3h}
Cutoff’s 10 never came, and he was sent to the rail. Brown chips up to close to 100,000.
Level 8 (Blinds 300/600/75)
Total Day 1 Entrants: 1,226
Total Day 1B Entrants: 826
Day 1B Players Remaining: 520
Day 1B Chip Average: 47,600 (80 big blinds)
Play has entered into the final level of the night with a staggering 58 tables still in action.
We were lucky to catch the top 5 stacks who bagged last night, but that could be more of a challenge tonight.
Level 7 (Blinds 250/500/50)
Total Day 1 Entrants: 1,226
Total Day 1B Entrants: 826
Day 1B Players Remaining: 530
Day 1B Chip Average: 46,800 (94 big blinds)
Mike Gagliano
Much has been written about Ebony Kenney by those of us on the blogging team without a wedding ring, but let’s throw some love Mike Gagliano’s way, eh?
Gagliano was also part of the live-stream team during the final table of the $1 million guaranteed Event 10 – this despite finishing in 2nd place of Event 12 at roughly 7am the night before that final table began play at 3pm.
He made $14,489 for that effort and is looking for another cash here in the main event.
Gagliano was recently noticed at a table near the front of the room as one of three players with cards showing on a board of {Kc}{2c}{3s} / {6d} / {6c}, and was the first to act as the small blind. Gagliano thought for a while about what to do before putting 6,800 chips into the pot. One of the other players folded, but the player on the button raised all-in and Mike instantly called with {3c}{3h} for the full house.
Gagliano isn’t loaded with chips at the moment – he roughly has the chip average – but he is loaded with experience, having cashed in 24 rated live tournaments for more than $650,000 in lifetime earnings.
Level 7 (Blinds 250/500/50)
Total Day 1 Entrants: 1,226
Total Day 1B Entrants: 826
Day 1B Players Remaining: 540
Day 1B Chip Average: 46,000 (92 big blinds)
With 30 minutes remaining in Level 7, the official word from the front desk is that a total of 1,226 entries were purchased for the Main Event, and that a payout structure probably won’t be available until tomorrow morning.
One thing’s for sure, though: surviving tonight is nothing close to a guarantee to cash in this event. The bubble will likely be somewhere in the 120 range, and we’re expecting close to 500 players to come back tomorrow.
One other thing is for sure: No overlay. We only needed 909 entrants to reach the $3 million guarantee, but it might as well have been a $4 million guarantee with 1,226 entrants.
Level 7 (Blinds 250/500/50)
Total Day 1 Entrants: 1,226
Total Day 1B Entrants: 826
Day 1B Players Remaining: 560
Day 1B Chip Average: 44,250 (89 big blinds)
Jack “Kash” Kashishian
It’s been a strong 2014 BPO for Jack Kashishian.
“Kash” won the Event 3 Deep Stack Bounty tournament Event 3, earning more than $45,000. He also placed 16th in Event 10 for another $5,000.
And from the looks of things, he’s fixing to Kash once again.
While taking down an uncontested pot, Kashishian was one of the dozens of players in the room watching the Monday Night Football game play out on one of the four projector screens hanging from the ceiling.
He isn’t the chip leader with 140,000 of them, but he’s certainly in the top 5% at this stage in the game.
Level 7 (Blinds 250/500/50)
Total Day 1 Entrants: 1,226
Total Day 1B Entrants: 826
Day 1B Players Remaining: 570
Day 1B Chip Average: 44,250 (89 big blinds)
Erik Cajelais
On the first hand back from dinner break, Erik Cajelais got himself a pretty solid hand to play from the big blind.
UTG+3 raised to 1,200 pre-flop and Cajelais flat-called, bringing a flop of {5s}{3s}{2s}.
UTG+3 was again the aggressor, betting 2,100. Cajelais flat-called again, bringing the {8h} on the turn.
For a third time, UTG+3 pushed the issue after Erik checked, betting 4,500. And for a third time, Cajelais flat-called.
After the {Ah} on the river, it was Cajelais’ turn to be aggressive (sort of), betting 4,000. UTG+3 made the call and Cajelais flipped up two pair with {Ad}{3x}. His opponent showed the {As} for a pair made on the river and a steel wheel draw from the flop, but threw his other card into the muck.
Cajelais chipped up to about 60,000.
In other news, a 64th table has opened, and Tab Duchateau has announced 1,226 entrants for this tournament. Not sure if that’s a final number just yet, but it will be posted as soon as possible.