Level 10 (500/1,000/100)
Total Entries: 693
Players Remaining: 365
Al Borges (Taunton, MA)
The action was picked up at a central table on a board of {4c}{9c}{Qs}{Qh} with Al Borges (Taunton, MA) and Samuel Taylor checking to an unknown player who would fire out a bet of 1,600.
Borges would then raise to 4,500 before Taylor would three-bet to 9,000 even.
The unknown player would get out of the way and Borges would immediately push his remaining stack forward and Taylor would almost just as quickly call.
Taylor would have Borges slightly covered and seemed poised to complete the knockout and take in a massive 100,000 chip pot, as he held {4s}{4d} besting Borges’ {Qd}{Jd}.
Taylor sat nervously as the river card was dealt and Borges’ massage that he was enjoying was momentarily stopped, until the {9d} came on the river, giving Borges a superior full house and the pot.
Taylor could only shake his head as he cut out the necessary chips to make the call and was crippled, left with a little under 5,000 chips.
On the other hand, Borges is now sitting near the 100,000 chip mark and can really enjoy his massage as he is now one of the bigger chip stacks in the room mid-way through Level 10 of Event 1 of the Winter Poker Open.