$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Place-Name
19th Derek Staib (Wilmington, DE)
20th Edward Mancini (New York, NY)
21st Pradeep Deshpande (Scotch Plains, NJ)
22nd Shamshair Alli (Clermont, FL)
23rd Adam Erlich (Farmingdale, NY)
24th Brent Gist (Redbank, NJ)
25th Joseph Brandi (Staten Island, NY)
26th Henry Couchara, Jr. (Conshohocken, PA)
27th Amir Hossein Mausavi Nasab (Bethesda, MD)
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Event 3: Flying Out the Door
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Blinds 25k/50k/5k ante
Since getting down to three tables, eliminations have been fast and furious. A double bust out made the two table redraw with 17 players.
Table 1
Marvin Hayes
Nick Partenope
John Renshaw
Todd Burger
Tim Little
Daniel Friedman
Deon Nossel
Manh Nguyen
Kirkor Tekneci
Table 2
Dan McAuliffe
Eddie Blumenthal
"Action" Bob Hwang
Dan Rovner
Raymond Ross
Brian O'Donohue
Kevin Kernan
John Renshaw
Blinds 25k/50k/5k ante
Since getting down to three tables, eliminations have been fast and furious. A double bust out made the two table redraw with 17 players.
Table 1
Marvin Hayes
Nick Partenope
John Renshaw
Todd Burger
Tim Little
Daniel Friedman
Deon Nossel
Manh Nguyen
Kirkor Tekneci
Table 2
Dan McAuliffe
Eddie Blumenthal
"Action" Bob Hwang
Dan Rovner
Raymond Ross
Brian O'Donohue
Kevin Kernan
John Renshaw
Event 4: Bazer's Dozen Bag & Tag
$450 + $50 Omaha H/L 8B
There's a baker's dozen left in the Omaha event, but of the 13, four unlucky players won't make the money.
Leonardo Palermo (Toms River, NJ) is the chip leader with 255k, holding nearly 1/5 of the chips in play.
"I was really aggressive," says Palermo, who has 27 career Borgata cashes, "once I picked up chips I was very aggressive and ran good."
Day 2 resumes at Noon with the money bubble looming as nine spots are paid. The average stack is 92k (4 big bets) with limits going to 12k/24k.
"I'm going to win this for my son, Lucky" says Palermo, who was born eight weeks ago and named Leonardo Lucky Palermo.
Chip Counts
Leonardo Palermo 255k
Hal Rotholz 198k
Hsiao Liu 127k
Menachem Rosenberg 108k
Danny Hofer 98k
Bob Lynch 85k
Ron "Shifty" Schiffman 70k
Arthur Mitchell 65k
Dan Shapiro 50k
Lonnie Heimowitz 47k
Jeffrey Moses 41k
Hua Wei 36k
Joel Frank 16k
Payouts
Entries: 80
Total Buy-In: $36,000
Place - Amount
1st $12,222
2nd $6,635
3rd $4,190
4th $3,143
5th $2,444
6th $2,095
7th $1,746
8th $1,397
9th $1,048
Leonardo Palermo
Chip Leader
There's a baker's dozen left in the Omaha event, but of the 13, four unlucky players won't make the money.
Leonardo Palermo (Toms River, NJ) is the chip leader with 255k, holding nearly 1/5 of the chips in play.
"I was really aggressive," says Palermo, who has 27 career Borgata cashes, "once I picked up chips I was very aggressive and ran good."
Day 2 resumes at Noon with the money bubble looming as nine spots are paid. The average stack is 92k (4 big bets) with limits going to 12k/24k.
"I'm going to win this for my son, Lucky" says Palermo, who was born eight weeks ago and named Leonardo Lucky Palermo.
Chip Counts
Leonardo Palermo 255k
Hal Rotholz 198k
Hsiao Liu 127k
Menachem Rosenberg 108k
Danny Hofer 98k
Bob Lynch 85k
Ron "Shifty" Schiffman 70k
Arthur Mitchell 65k
Dan Shapiro 50k
Lonnie Heimowitz 47k
Jeffrey Moses 41k
Hua Wei 36k
Joel Frank 16k
Payouts
Entries: 80
Total Buy-In: $36,000
Place - Amount
1st $12,222
2nd $6,635
3rd $4,190
4th $3,143
5th $2,444
6th $2,095
7th $1,746
8th $1,397
9th $1,048
Event 3: 28-36th Places ($1,095)
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Place-Name
28th Stephen Rozanski (Huntingdon Valley, PA)
29th Paul Avilla (Westport, MA)
30th Neil Desterano (Lindenhurst, NY)
31st Sheree Bykofsky (Atlantic City, NJ)
32nd Daniel Weaver (Kennebunk, ME)
33rd Sang Yeop Woo (Chandler, AZ)
34th David Taylor (Elkridge, MD)
35th Earl King (Colts Neck, NJ)
36th Steven Cho (Derwood, MO)
Sheree Bykofsky
Place-Name
28th Stephen Rozanski (Huntingdon Valley, PA)
29th Paul Avilla (Westport, MA)
30th Neil Desterano (Lindenhurst, NY)
31st Sheree Bykofsky (Atlantic City, NJ)
32nd Daniel Weaver (Kennebunk, ME)
33rd Sang Yeop Woo (Chandler, AZ)
34th David Taylor (Elkridge, MD)
35th Earl King (Colts Neck, NJ)
36th Steven Cho (Derwood, MO)
Event 4: Two Tables
$450 + $50 Omaha H/L 8B
Limits 5k/10k
The magic number of 18 players has been reached and play continues until the end of this level (2 am). Three-time Borata trophy winner Glenn Engelbert (Erial, NJ) is one of the recent casualties.
The average stack is 66k (6 big bets).
Limits 5k/10k
Final Two Tables
The magic number of 18 players has been reached and play continues until the end of this level (2 am). Three-time Borata trophy winner Glenn Engelbert (Erial, NJ) is one of the recent casualties.
The average stack is 66k (6 big bets).
Event 3: Three Tables
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Blinds: 15k/30k/4k ante
The field is down to 27 players on three tables and one of them has a lot of chips. Eddie Blumenthal (Madison, WI) is still over 1 million, but now has company. Brian O'Donoghue (Bayside, NY) is up to 1.1 million, and another player is also in that neighborhood, but wishes to remain anonymous.
The average stack is 609k (20 bb) as this one-day tournament continues to move along.
Blinds: 15k/30k/4k ante
Blumenthal & O'Donoghue
The field is down to 27 players on three tables and one of them has a lot of chips. Eddie Blumenthal (Madison, WI) is still over 1 million, but now has company. Brian O'Donoghue (Bayside, NY) is up to 1.1 million, and another player is also in that neighborhood, but wishes to remain anonymous.
The average stack is 609k (20 bb) as this one-day tournament continues to move along.
Event 3: 37-45th Places ($983)
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
37th Jin Ro (Mullica Hill, NJ)
38th Scott Davidow (Hollis Hills, NY)
39th Alan Horowitz (Bay Shore, NY)
40th Mashnqur Rahman (Arlington, VA)
41st Denis Kurlyland (Brooklyn, NY)
42nd Michael Salvietti (New Rochelle, NY)
43rd Salvatore Poerio (Brooklyn, NY)
44th Michael Adams (Accokeek, MD)
45th John Nguyen (Piscataway, NJ)
John Nguyen
Place-Name37th Jin Ro (Mullica Hill, NJ)
38th Scott Davidow (Hollis Hills, NY)
39th Alan Horowitz (Bay Shore, NY)
40th Mashnqur Rahman (Arlington, VA)
41st Denis Kurlyland (Brooklyn, NY)
42nd Michael Salvietti (New Rochelle, NY)
43rd Salvatore Poerio (Brooklyn, NY)
44th Michael Adams (Accokeek, MD)
45th John Nguyen (Piscataway, NJ)
Event 4: 21 Gun Salute
$450 + $50 Omaha H/L 8B
Limits 5k/10k
Players are just back from break and it looks like this will be the last level of the night. 21 players remain and the field must be cut to 18 before bagging and tagging. If that happens before 2 am, then we expect to complete the level which will finish off the night.
The average stack is 57k (6 big bets).
Limits 5k/10k
Players are just back from break and it looks like this will be the last level of the night. 21 players remain and the field must be cut to 18 before bagging and tagging. If that happens before 2 am, then we expect to complete the level which will finish off the night.
The average stack is 57k (6 big bets).
Event 3: 46-54th Places ($871)
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Place-Name
46th Thomas Margiano Jr. (Massapequa, NY)
47th Casey Peters (Brick, NJ)
48th Howard Wolper (Atlantic City, NJ)
49th Dean Phelps (Fort Lee, NJ)
50th Alexandre Navalnii (New York, NY)
51st Phong Nguyen (Bristow, VA)
52nd Laurence Hughes (Seattle, WA)
53rd Michael Shults (Watchung, NJ)
54th Christopher O'Hara (Clarks Summit, PA)
Chris O'Hara
Place-Name
46th Thomas Margiano Jr. (Massapequa, NY)
47th Casey Peters (Brick, NJ)
48th Howard Wolper (Atlantic City, NJ)
49th Dean Phelps (Fort Lee, NJ)
50th Alexandre Navalnii (New York, NY)
51st Phong Nguyen (Bristow, VA)
52nd Laurence Hughes (Seattle, WA)
53rd Michael Shults (Watchung, NJ)
54th Christopher O'Hara (Clarks Summit, PA)
Event 4: Palermo Punishing Borgata Omaha Field
$450 + $50 Omaha H/L 8B
Limits 4k/8k
Limits 4k/8k
Leonardo Leading the Way
Leonardo Palermo (Toms River, NJ) is picking up a lot of hands and a lot of pots. He's up to 200k, which is 1/6 of the 1.2 million chips in play and four times the chip average.
"He's winning pots from everyone," says Frank Alger (Colonial Beach, VA), who is Palermo's latest victim. "I have to stop being the dinner break chip leader," says the frequent Borgata Omaha player who saw his big stack evaporate.
24 players remain with an average stack of 50k (6 big bets).
Busted @BorgataPoker O8B with 3 tables left. Guy on my left just kept getting all the chips from everyone.
— Frank Alger (@frankalger) November 17, 2013
Event 3: Million Chip March
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Blinds 10k/20k/3k ante
Eddie Blumenthal (Madison, WI) is the only player with 1 million chips as players are back from break and introduced to the 25k copper chips which are now in play.
Blumenthal says he won a 600k chip pot on the bubble when his opponent ran QQ into his AA.
Blumenthal, who travels to play poker, has $632,000 in career tournament earnings. He's been here in the past but this is his first Borgata cash. Blumenthal's has a WSOP second place finish on his resume from a 2011 6-handed event.
Blinds 10k/20k/3k ante
Eddie Picking-up Money at Borgata
Eddie Blumenthal (Madison, WI) is the only player with 1 million chips as players are back from break and introduced to the 25k copper chips which are now in play.
Blumenthal says he won a 600k chip pot on the bubble when his opponent ran QQ into his AA.
Blumenthal, who travels to play poker, has $632,000 in career tournament earnings. He's been here in the past but this is his first Borgata cash. Blumenthal's has a WSOP second place finish on his resume from a 2011 6-handed event.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Event 3: Payouts 55th-63rd Places ($760)
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Place-Name
55th Phillip Muntner (Morganville, NJ)
56th Amir Genzel (Flushing, NY)
57th Angela Lofaro (Jersey City, NJ)
58th Hemchand Prasad (Yonkers, NY)
59th Marinko Matura (Franklin Square, NY)
60th Lawrence Digiovanna (Brooklyn, NY)
61st Marlon Weste (Bronx, NY)
62nd Joseph Spicer (Springfield, PA)
63rd Jason Levine (River Vale, NJ)
Amir Genzel
(Borgata File)
Place-Name
55th Phillip Muntner (Morganville, NJ)
56th Amir Genzel (Flushing, NY)
57th Angela Lofaro (Jersey City, NJ)
58th Hemchand Prasad (Yonkers, NY)
59th Marinko Matura (Franklin Square, NY)
60th Lawrence Digiovanna (Brooklyn, NY)
61st Marlon Weste (Bronx, NY)
62nd Joseph Spicer (Springfield, PA)
63rd Jason Levine (River Vale, NJ)
Event 3: Buzzetto Busto on the Bubble
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Blinds 6k/12k/2k ante
Pam Buzzetto's (Tampa, FL) pocket 8s loses a coin flip against J9 when a 9 hits the flop to knock her out on the bubble. After an official count Buzzetto is out in 64th place, one spot from the money.
"Oh well," she says with a smile knowing that with only 75k (6 bb) it was the best hand she was going to see.
The remaining 63 players earn a min cash of $760 as they play for the top spot of $53,627.
Blinds 6k/12k/2k ante
Pam Buzzetto
Pam Buzzetto's (Tampa, FL) pocket 8s loses a coin flip against J9 when a 9 hits the flop to knock her out on the bubble. After an official count Buzzetto is out in 64th place, one spot from the money.
"Oh well," she says with a smile knowing that with only 75k (6 bb) it was the best hand she was going to see.
The remaining 63 players earn a min cash of $760 as they play for the top spot of $53,627.
Event 4: Halfway Home
$450 + $50 Omaha H/L 8B
Limits 2k/4k
Nearly half the field is gone as 42 players remain of the 80 that began the day.
Frank Alger (Colonial Beach, VA) continues to lead the way with 70k (17 big bets), but players are gaining ground with the average stack at 29k (7 bb).
Those still in the field include:
Frank Alger
Joe Loguidice
Bob Lynch
Chris Reslock
Ming Reslock
Matt Axelrod
Leonard Palermo
Gloria LoRusso
Glenn Engelbert
Ron 'Schifty' Schiffman
Dan Shapiro
Limits 2k/4k
Nearly half the field is gone as 42 players remain of the 80 that began the day.
Frank Alger (Colonial Beach, VA) continues to lead the way with 70k (17 big bets), but players are gaining ground with the average stack at 29k (7 bb).
Those still in the field include:
Frank Alger
Joe Loguidice
Bob Lynch
Chris Reslock
Ming Reslock
Matt Axelrod
Leonard Palermo
Gloria LoRusso
Glenn Engelbert
Ron 'Schifty' Schiffman
Dan Shapiro
Event 3: Moving Along
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Blinds 4k/8k/1k ante
The remaining 78 players are now all in the Poker Room and just 15 spots from the money. We've seen lots of big pots this level including a three-way all in where John Nguyen's (Piscataway, NJ) 88 holds against AJ and AQ for a 700k chip pot.
Second in chips is Marvin Hayes (Brookly, NY) who is up to 650k.
The average stack is 210k (26 bb) as we close in on the bubble.
Blinds 4k/8k/1k ante
Marvin Moving up the Chip Counts
The remaining 78 players are now all in the Poker Room and just 15 spots from the money. We've seen lots of big pots this level including a three-way all in where John Nguyen's (Piscataway, NJ) 88 holds against AJ and AQ for a 700k chip pot.
Second in chips is Marvin Hayes (Brookly, NY) who is up to 650k.
The average stack is 210k (26 bb) as we close in on the bubble.
Event 4: Payouts
$450 + $50 Omaha H/L 8B
Entries: 80
Total Buy-In: $36,000
Place - Amount
1st $12,222
2nd $6,635
3rd $4,190
4th $3,143
5th $2,444
6th $2,095
7th $1,746
8th $1,397
9th $1,048
Entries: 80
Total Buy-In: $36,000
Place - Amount
1st $12,222
2nd $6,635
3rd $4,190
4th $3,143
5th $2,444
6th $2,095
7th $1,746
8th $1,397
9th $1,048
Event 3: Chaos!!! (but Controlled Chaos!)
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Blinds: 3k/6k/500 ante
Huge turnouts for the first five days of the Borgata Fall Poker Open has created chaos everywhere, but in a good way!
Tables are packed in both the Signature Room and Poker Room as the tournament tables are everywhere, mixed in between 60 live cash tables that are running.
As the field in Event 3 drops to around 100 players, the tables in the Signature Room are preparing to move to the Poker Room. With 63 spots paid it will be imperative that all remaining players are in the same place.
Once this level expires at 9:40 pm, the purple (500) chips will be colored-up and the six remaining tables will pack up and move, which will help sort out some of the chaos.
Blinds: 3k/6k/500 ante
Huge turnouts for the first five days of the Borgata Fall Poker Open has created chaos everywhere, but in a good way!
Tables are packed in both the Signature Room and Poker Room as the tournament tables are everywhere, mixed in between 60 live cash tables that are running.
As the field in Event 3 drops to around 100 players, the tables in the Signature Room are preparing to move to the Poker Room. With 63 spots paid it will be imperative that all remaining players are in the same place.
Once this level expires at 9:40 pm, the purple (500) chips will be colored-up and the six remaining tables will pack up and move, which will help sort out some of the chaos.
Event 4: Back from Dinner Break
$450 + $50 Omaha H/L 8B
Limits 1k/2k
64 players return from dinner break with an average stack of 19k (9 big bets). Frank Alger (Colonial Beach, VA) is lapping the field with 60k and tweets about how good he's running:
Limits 1k/2k
64 players return from dinner break with an average stack of 19k (9 big bets). Frank Alger (Colonial Beach, VA) is lapping the field with 60k and tweets about how good he's running:
Won the 25 chip race too. Officially 60100 on dinner break of @BorgataPoker O8B.
— Frank Alger (@frankalger) November 17, 2013
Event 1 Recap
$500 + $60 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
At the end of this two-day tournament that covered five calendar days, Greg Himmelbrand (Queens, NY) was sitting behind all 72 million chips in play. The win earned him $243,630 and this is the poker pro's second six-figure cash of 2013.
Second place and $157,983 went to Luis Diaz, who was dead-last in chips when the final table began Thanks to an early double-up and busting Patrick Chan in 9th place, Luis cruised to a second-place finish. Luis works in a barber shop, but plays lots of tournaments when he can.
Simon Lam, another professional poker player, took third and $103,457.
This event kicked off the 2013 Borgata Fall Poker Open with a $1 million guarantee on total buy-ins and four starting flights over three days. They needed 2,000 entrants to make the guarantee and that hurdle was cleared with ease. The final tally was 2,899 entrants for total buy-ins of $1,449,500.
586 players survived the four starting flights and returned for day two. The chip leader was WSOP bracelet winner Jason Young (Suffern, NY). The final 250 players got paid and although he made the money, Jason did not crack the top 100, busting out early on day two.
Play continued until early Saturday morning until they finally reached the final table of ten after 5am. At that point they decided to extend the event to a third day and return at 2pm. George Alberto was the chip leader when the final table got underway, but he had a rough day and busted out in 7th place.
Greg Himmelbrand played Day 1B and actually busted out. He took advantage of the re-entry aspect of this event and fared much better on his second bullet. Despite being all-in and at-risk a couple of times, he managed to fade his opponents' outs. He says he played a 10-25 big blind stack for most of Day 1, being "patient" and "picking [his] spots" to make it through the day.
Greg will definitely be back for the Championship event, but hasn't yet decided what other preliminary events he might play.
Final Table Results
At the end of this two-day tournament that covered five calendar days, Greg Himmelbrand (Queens, NY) was sitting behind all 72 million chips in play. The win earned him $243,630 and this is the poker pro's second six-figure cash of 2013.
Second place and $157,983 went to Luis Diaz, who was dead-last in chips when the final table began Thanks to an early double-up and busting Patrick Chan in 9th place, Luis cruised to a second-place finish. Luis works in a barber shop, but plays lots of tournaments when he can.
Simon Lam, another professional poker player, took third and $103,457.
This event kicked off the 2013 Borgata Fall Poker Open with a $1 million guarantee on total buy-ins and four starting flights over three days. They needed 2,000 entrants to make the guarantee and that hurdle was cleared with ease. The final tally was 2,899 entrants for total buy-ins of $1,449,500.
586 players survived the four starting flights and returned for day two. The chip leader was WSOP bracelet winner Jason Young (Suffern, NY). The final 250 players got paid and although he made the money, Jason did not crack the top 100, busting out early on day two.
Play continued until early Saturday morning until they finally reached the final table of ten after 5am. At that point they decided to extend the event to a third day and return at 2pm. George Alberto was the chip leader when the final table got underway, but he had a rough day and busted out in 7th place.
Greg Himmelbrand played Day 1B and actually busted out. He took advantage of the re-entry aspect of this event and fared much better on his second bullet. Despite being all-in and at-risk a couple of times, he managed to fade his opponents' outs. He says he played a 10-25 big blind stack for most of Day 1, being "patient" and "picking [his] spots" to make it through the day.
Greg will definitely be back for the Championship event, but hasn't yet decided what other preliminary events he might play.
Final Table Results
1 - Greg Himmelbrand (Queens, NY) $243,630
2 - Luis Diaz (Hazelton, PA) $157,983
3 - Simon Lam (Brooklyn, NY) $103,457
4 - Edward Jacobs (Smithtown, NY) $87,952
5 - Frank Nelson (Marlton, NJ) $72,966
6 - Brian Rosengarten (Plainview, NY) $58,120
7 - George Alberto (Clifton, NJ) $43,413
8 - Patrick Chan (Brooklyn, NY) $29,406
9 - Chad Jackson (Walton, NY) $21,009
Event 3: Back From Dinner
$350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)
Level 16: Blinds 2,500/5k/500 ante
Play has resumed following the dinner break.
Level 16: Blinds 2,500/5k/500 ante
Play has resumed following the dinner break.
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