Event 1D: Big Dog Barking

$500 + $60 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)

Level 11: Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante

Brown Hits Straightest Flush

Catching up with the big stacks, we find Jeremy "Big Dog" Brown (Morristown, NJ) with a healthy 150k.

"I hit a straight flush right before break," says the Borgata trophy holder, "I was going to have to re-enter if I didn't hit the river."

On the last hand before the previous break, Brown and Jack Corning (Syracuse, NY) see a flop of Ax J♦ 8♦ and all the chips are in the middle for a 160k chip pot.

Corning: AJ (two pairs)
Brown: 9♦ 7♦ (flush draw, gutshot straight draw)

Turn: 3x

River: 10♦  

Brown hits the Jack-high straight flush to cripple Corning. "I was down to 5k," says Corning, "now I'm up to 18(k)," he says after surviving an all-in.

Brown won his trophy earlier this year in the Borgata Spring Poker Open, but his largest career score was a second place finish in the 2009 WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship Event. He earned $454,000 after Olivier Busquet beat him heads up for the title.

After spending time in Arizona, Brown is back on the East Coast and living in New Jersey. Corning is a frequent Borgata series player who has four career cashes here.