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Borgata Fall Poker Open $1 Million Guaranteed – Russell Crane Wins
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2013-12-01 09:41
Thursday was the final day of the Borgata Fall Poker Open’s $1Million Guaranteed Championship Event, which managed to play down to a winner after three days of intense green felt battles. The player who walked away with the top prize was Russell Crane, from Howell, New Jersey, who was rewarded with $361.7k for his efforts.
Crane disposed of Gary Wong heads-up. Wong’s reward was a pretty substantial one as well: he walked away with $203.3k. What’s more, the
poker tournament generated a 3rd and a 4th 6-figure winner as well: Tyng Low of Flushing, NY, walked away with $128k, while Ken Silberstein of Edison, NJ, was rewarded with $103.9k.
The tournament saw a total of 625 players belly up to its tables, of which only 63 would end up paid. The player who busted in 64th place was Melad Marji, sent packing by Jeremy Menard on an A,K vs pocket 5s match-up, which saw his 5s succumb to a boat Menard made.
Menard put the chips he picked up by busting the bubble to good use: he made his way to 25th place before running out of steam and picking up an $8.2k prize.
At the beginning of the last day, 36 players returned to the tables, all safely within the money. The start of the day chip leader was Jake Schwartz, who had a poor day 3 run though: he busted in 24th place, picking up $8.2k.
Unlike Schwartz, Crane was far down the chip counts when the last day of action kicked off. As Schwartz’s stack was getting smaller and smaller though, Crane’s was getting bigger, right until all the chips in the game found their way to his stack.
The deepest finishing notable in the event was Kyle Bowker, who finished 6th for $68.5k. Cliff Josephy made the top 10 too: he finished 9th for $28.6k.
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