Event 10: 2nd Place - Bonita

$600 + $60  Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 20k/40k/4k ante

Michael Bonita (New City, NY) 
 & Jack the Service Dog

$20,839

Michael Bonita adds to his success at the Borgata Fall Poker open with a runner-up finish to Michael Sneideman.  On the final hand, Bonita's QT doesn't improve against AK and he settles for second place and $20,839.

"It's my best run so far this Fall Open," says Bonita who has three cashes in the four events he's played. "I've been playing more and more tournaments and mixing it up a lot more," he says about his recent success.

Bonita was over matched and never got a double-up with Sneideman holding nearly 85% of the chips when they began heads up play.

In addition to his highest career finish, Bonita came in 10th place in the six-max bounty (Event 9), and finished 30th in the $100,000 Guarantee (Event 6) in this series.

Bonita owns a landscaping business and has increasingly found more time to play poker beyond his usual attendance of the Borgata Winter Poker Open.