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WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship Event – Day 1B Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Wed, 2014-01-29 06:54
The $3.5k Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship event, the one offering a $3 million guarantee, saw 807 players register during its second day 1 flight. There was indeed a lot of interest for the
poker tournament, fuelled by the massive guarantee of course.
By the end of the day, of the 807 registrants, around 450 were left standing. The one who finished the day with the largest stack was Todd Rebello, who had 229.8k chips bagged. Despite his Day 1B success, Rebello will not be the chip leader once the Day 2 hostilities get going. That position has been reserved for Laz Hernandez, the chip leader of Day 1A, whose stack of 258.1k chips was enough to grant him the overall lead.
On Day 1A, 422 players bought into the event, which means that the grand total on the entries was 1,229. Rob Boyko and Mike Linster had good Day 1B runs too: they finished second and third, with 109.5k and 160.2k chips respectively.
Given the sheer number of competitors who bellied up to the tables on Day 1B, it came as no surprise that there were scores of pros involved in the action too. Todd Terry was among these pros, and he actually managed to make it past the day on a healthy stack no less: he had 98.5k chips bagged. Isaac Baron, Eric Baldwin, Faraz Jaka and Jeff Madsen were among the survivors as well.
DJ MacKinnon made his way to Day 2 too, but the road he took was a rather treacherous one. Following the dinner break, he returned to his table to find that he had no chips left. Upon reviewing the security footage, it became clear that after he had stood up from the table early, his chips got pushed to the winner of a pot by mistake, together with the chips of the player who had lost that hand.
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