Event 20 (Day 3)
Level 24 (Blinds 12,000/24,000/4,000)
Total Entries: 1,226
Players Remaining: 31
Chip Average: 1,186,000 (49 big blinds)
Chip Leader – Jean Gaspard
31 players bagged for Day 4 with the following chip counts:
Jean Gaspard – 5,464,000
Blahe Bohn – 2,951,000
Zo Karim – 2,280,000
Nicholas Gerrity – 1,906,000
Darren Elias – 1,770,000
Kane Kalas – 1,679,000
Ray Qartomy – 1,675,000
Richard Munro – 1,632,000
Riley Fuller – 1,442,000
Ory Hen – 1,400,000
Scott Matte – 1,202,000
***Chip Average***
Barry Shulman – 1,158,000
Vincent Jacques – 1,138,000
Hakan Demircioglu – 1,033,000
Hee Im – 920,000
Dan Weinman – 849,000
Jose Serratos – 844,000
Matty Levine – 834,000
Justin Zaki – 774,000
Aaron Overton – 760,000
Erik Cajelais – 747,000
Jake Vo – 721,000
Marshall White – 530,000
Iaron Lightbourne – 526,000
Joe Galazzo – 499,000
Bobby Oboodi – 371,000
Andrew Cimpan – 358,000
Ray Shackelford – 354,000
Ed Blount – 354,000
Matt Glantz – 309,000
Eugene Todd – 286,000
Play will resume tomorrow (Thursday) at 12 noon in the Poker Room.
Level 24 (Blinds 12,000/24,000/4,000)
Total Entries: 1,226
Players Remaining: 31
Chip Average: 1,187,000 (49 big blinds)
Richard Munro
Down to just a few red 25,000 chips, Rick Rossetti pushed all-in under the gun and got a call from Richard Munro in cutoff position and Jean Gaspard in the small blind.
After a flop of {Ad}{8c}{4h}, Munro put out a bet and Gaspard got out of the hand.
Munro: {Ac}{8d} Rossetti: {Qc}{Qd}
Turn: {7c}
River: {5d}
Rossetti was unable to find one of the remaining Queens in the deck and was busted in 32nd place.
After the hand, Andrew Wong announced 4 more hands until they would bag chips for the night.
Level 24 (Blinds 12,000/24,000/4,000)
Total Entries: 1,226
Players Remaining: 33
Chip Average: 1,115,000 (46 big blinds)
Andrew Cimpan
Andrew Cimpan pushed all-in for his final 163,000 from cutoff position and got a call from Kane Kalas.
Cimpan was well ahead and won the hand, but not in the way one might expect.
Cimpan: {Ah}{As} Kalas: {Kc}{8d}
Flop: {Qs}{10s}{9h}
Turn: {Kd}
River: {Jc}
With a straight showing on the board, Cimpan only needed one of the aces to get the broadway straight.
Level 24 (Blinds 12,000/24,000/4,000)
Total Entries: 1,226
Players Remaining: 33
Chip Average: 1,115,000 (46 big blinds)
Tab Duchateau (when does he sleep?!) has announced that play will conclude at 2 am.
They will play the first 30 minutes of Level 24 before breaking for the night.
Level 23 (Blinds 10,000/20,000/3,000)
Total Entries: 1,226
Players Remaining: 33
Chip Average: 1,115,000 (56 big blinds)
Vincent Jacques
Play had gone a solid 35 minutes without an elimination after the flurry of them that sent players to the final 4 tables, but Vincent Jacques finally broke the dry spell with a KO.
About one orbit after his pocket jacks lost to Barry Shulman’s Q-10 for close to 700,000 chips, Jacques was once again facing an all-in bet while holding a huge pocket pair.
David Inselberg: {Ax}{Kx} Jacques: {Ax}{Ax}
Flop: {5c}{3h}{2d}
Turn: {9d}
River: {2h}
Inselberg had virtually no hope of winning the hand after the flop, but a 4 would have resulted in a split pot.
No such luck for him.
Level 23 (Blinds 10,000/20,000/3,000)
Total Entries: 1,226
Players Remaining: 34
Chip Average: 1,082,000 (54 big blinds)
Jake Vo
After a raise to 40,000 from UTG, Jake Vo pushed all-in for his final 423,000. Jean “Prince” Gaspard made the call from the button and everyone else got out of the hand.
Vo: {Qc}{Qd} Gaspard: {6h}{6c}
Flop: {7c}{5d}{3h}
Turn: {Kd}
River: {Kc}
Vo’s queens held up and he doubled up to almost 1.0 million.
Despite losing about 40% of an average chip stack in the hand, Gaspard still has just under 5.0 million.
As Richard Munro commented after the hand, “I was just wondering whether you were going to get the 6 or the 4 after that flop.”
Translation: Gaspard is winning everything he plays over the past few hours.
We were on the fast track to 27 players until one of the members of the WPT team commented, “This is going quick!” after the rapid eliminations that took the field from 40 down to 34. Naturally, there hasn’t been an elimination in the 15 minutes since those words escaped into the air.
Level 23 (Blinds 10,000/20,000/3,000)
Total Entries: 1,226
Players Remaining: 36
Chip Average: 1,082,000 (54 big blinds)
Ryan Riess
He was never going to make as much as the $8.3 million he won in the Main Event of the 2013 WSOP, but Ryan Riess made a deep run here at the 2014 Borgata Poker Open Main Event before getting knocked out in 39th place.
The details of the hand that eliminated Riess were not captured, as it was one of just four all-in hands taking place almost simultaneously, but he had been one of the shortest stacks in the room for a while.
Riess entered the day with a better than average stack, but was unable to get anything going here on Day 3.
Level 23 (Blinds 10,000/20,000/3,000)
Total Entries: 1,226
Players Remaining: 36
Chip Average: 1,020,000 (51 big blinds)
Erik Cajelais
After four very quick eliminations, play is condensing to the final 4 tables, and the chip average has eclipsed 1,000,000.
Jong Kim was eliminated in 38th place. Sitting on the button as the shortest stack at the table, he tried to buy the blinds and antes when action folded around to him. But he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar as Erik Cajelais made the call from the small blind. Erik’s A 9 > 10 8 when the board ran out {6s}{6h}{3c} / {5c} / {Jc}.
Cajelais now has 1.5 million chips.
Moments later, VIP Nguyen was all-in at another table with just 135,000 remaining. He was holding {Ac}{Qd} and lost a race to {8h}{8d} on a board of {10s}{9d}{3d} / {3c} / {6h}.
Level 23 (Blinds 10,000/20,000/3,000)
Total Entries: 1,226
Players Remaining: 41
Chip Average: 897,000 (45 big blinds)
Andrew Cimpan
Jake Vo
At the start of the tournament, the 75 players wearing Skrill patches represented about 6% of the field.
With 41 players remaining, it’s down to 5% as Andrew Cimpan and Jake Vo are going mano e mano to get their buy-in back from Skrill.
The last man standing will be awarded $3,500 in addition to the $13,000+ that they would already make from the prize pool for lasting this long.
Vo is in the lead at the moment with 500,000 chips, but Cimpan is hardly dead at 300,000 (15 big blinds).
Level 22 (Blinds 8,000/16,000/2,000)
Total Entries: 1,226
Players Remaining: 42
Chip Average: 876,000 (55 big blinds)
Ray Shackelford
After Richard Munro raised to 40,000 from hijack position, Ray Shackelford pushed all-in from cutoff position with his final 130,000 chips. Jean Gaspard then pushed all-in over the top, holding more than twice as many chips as any other player at the table.
Action folded back around to Munro, and he begrudgingly folded.
Shackelford: {9d}{9s} Gaspard: {Qh}{5h}
Flop: {Ad}{Jh}{4s}
Turn: {2s}
River: {2d}
The pocket nines held up – per usual – and Shackelford doubled up to about 300,000.
Players are currently on a 10-minute break.
Play is scheduled to conclude when 27 players remain.