Event 22
$260+$40 Deeper Stack NLH Re-Entry
$50,000 Guaranteed
Structure Payouts
Level 18: 4,000/8,000/8,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 253
Players Remaining: 40
Larry Abrams
Larry Abrams raised from early position and the player next to act moved all in for about 55,000. It folded back to Abrams who called turning over 
and was dominating 
of his opponent.
The dealer fanned the 
flop giving Abrams bottom set and his opponent two pair. The turn 
and river 
sealed the deal for Abrams and he sent his opponent to the rail.
Larry Abrams- 350,000
Level 32 (Blinds 100,000/200,000/30,000)
Total Entries: 782
Players Remaining: 1
Chip Average: 19,550,000
Event 22 Winner – Ted Ely
Just seconds before the clock struck 7am, Ted Ely claimed the first trophy of his poker career for winning Event 22.
Ely’s stack fluctuated like a pendulum over the final 4 hours of play, but he did enough for a first-place finish and a $45,755 payday. He wanted to be photographed with Q-8 offsuit, because it was that hand that accidentally put him in position to win this tournament when he was able to make two pair against the A-J of Thong Tran.
This is the second biggest score of Ely’s career. He previously made $48,847 for coming in 218th place in the Main Event of the 2010 WSOP.
Reggie Lopez took second place and $26,625. Not only is this the first five-figure score of his career, but it’s also his first recorded four-figure score.
Matt Gailums took third place, winning $16,271. Gailums has no other recorded cashes in Hendon Mob.
The 2014 Borgata Poker Open isn’t over just yet. 31 players bagged for Day 4 of the Main Event. They will play down to a final 10 beginning at 12pm tomorrow. Before that resumes, though, Event 23 ($300 + $40 Deeper Stack NLHE) will take flight, with a winner to be crowned late Thursday night / early Friday morning.
Level 32 (Blinds 100,000/200,000/30,000)
Total Entries: 782
Players Remaining: 3
Chip Average: 6,500,000 (33 big blinds)
Matt Gailums
Reggie Lopez
Ted Ely
Three players remain.
All three are guaranteed at least $16,271.
2nd place wins $26,625.
1st place gets $45,755 and the trophy.
Giddy up.
Level 32 (Blinds 100,000/200,000/30,000)
Total Entries: 782
Players Remaining: 3
Chip Average: 6,500,000 (33 big blinds)
4th Place – Robert Woods
On the very next hand after having pocket jacks in the big blind, Reggie Lopez woke up to an even better hand in the small blind and an all-in shove from Robert Woods.
Woods: {Ah}{Kh} Lopez: {Qc}{Qh}
Flop: {Ac}{Qs}{2h}
Turn: {Jc}
River: {4h}
The ace in the window was hiding Lopez’s set of queens. It cut Woods down to his final 350,000 chips.
On the following hand, Woods pushed all-in and was call by Lopez and Matt Gailums. As they did in eliminating Michael Wong in 7th place, Lopez and Gailums checked all the way through a board of {Kc}{Jh}{3s} / {6c} / {7h}. Gailums turned over pocket 8’s, and the other two players threw their cards into the muck.
Woods goes home in 4th place with $13,411.
Funny how quickly things can change in NLHE. Lopez was one of the shortest stacks for about 4 hours. He had the shortest stack when players condensed to the final 2 tables. But out of nowhere, he now has almost 6,000,000 chips.
Level 32 (Blinds 100,000/200,000/30,000)
Total Entries: 782
Players Remaining: 4
Chip Average: 4,900,000 (24 big blinds)
5th Place – Matt Itkin
On the first hand after break, Matt Itkin shoved all-in from the small blind, but picked a poor time to try to steal the pot.
Itkin: {10s}{5h} Reggie Lopez: {Jh}{Js}
Flop: {Qd}{9s}{5s}
Turn: {9d}
River: {6h}
Itkin paired his 5, but it wasn’t nearly enough to conquer pocket jacks.
He was one of the shortest stacks for the majority of the final three tables, but fought and clawed his way to a five-figure score of $10,847.
Ted Ely
Level 32 (Blinds 100,000/200,000/30,000)
Total Entries: 782
Players Remaining: 5
Chip Average: 3,910,000 (20 big blinds)
Players are currently on a 5-minute restroom break before the start of Level 32.
Ted Ely is hard at work figuring out where he’s going to spend the first chunk of his hard-earned quiche. Maybe on a nice breakfast quiche? It is 6:30am, after all.
Level 31 (Blinds 80,000/160,000/20,000)
Total Entries: 782
Players Remaining: 5
Chip Average: 3,910,000 (24 big blinds)
Matt Gailums – 8.6 million
Ted Ely – 4.1 million
Robert Woods – 3.9 million
Reggie Lopez – 1.6 million
Matt Itkin – 1.2 million
Level 31 (Blinds 80,000/160,000/20,000)
Total Entries: 782
Players Remaining: 5
Chip Average: 3,910,000 (24 big blinds)
6th Place – Thong Tran
On the first hand after Lopez doubled up, Ted Ely shoved all-in from the small blind – perhaps expecting Thong Tran to fold his big blind, but he made the call.
Ely: {Qd}{8c} Tran: {Ah}{Js}
Flop: {Qs}{7d}{3h}
Turn: {8d}
River: {5c}
Ely made two pair and Tran got nothing, leaving the room in 6th place with $8,875.
Level 31 (Blinds 80,000/160,000/20,000)
Total Entries: 782
Players Remaining: 6
Chip Average: 3,260,000 (20 big blinds)
Reggie Lopez
Reggie Lopez pushed all-in from cutoff position with his final 835,000 chips. Robert Woods made the call from the small blind.
Lopez: {Ad}{5s} Woods: {6c}{6h}
Flop: {Js}{9s}{3d}
Turn: {7s}
River: {8s}
When the flush spiked on the river, Lopez jumped up and yelled, “Yeah, baby!” smacking a nearby Nelson Capellan in the chest. “Flush, baby!”
Level 31 (Blinds 80,000/160,000/20,000)
Total Entries: 782
Players Remaining: 6
Chip Average: 3,260,000 (20 big blinds)
Thong Tran
Robert Woods raised to 400,000 pre-flop in cutoff position and got a call from Thong Tran in the small blind.
Flop: {Qc}{8c}{7h}
Tran checked before Woods quickly fired out for 500,000. Tran pushed all-in, with only about 250,000 on top, and Woods surprisingly folded despite getting 8-to-1 odds on a call.
Tran waved his Dikembe Mutombo finger, telling Woods not to bluff him again.