$3,300+$200 WPT Borgata WPO Championship
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Structure Sheet
Level 3: Blinds 100/200/200 BB Ante
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(L to R): WPT Crew Brenden Johnson, Borgata Tournament Director Tab Duchateau, WPT VP Angelica Hael, Cathy Zhao, & Tony Dunst; Borgata Marketing’s Simon Pogelin, Borgata Poker’s Deb Daly, & WPT Crew Andrea Johnson.
The World Poker Tour’s Tony Dunst made some opening comments as players returned from their first break.
Play has resumed and the Big Blind Ante is in play.
Instead of each player at the table anteing and the dealer having to sort out who has posted and who hasn’t, and collect all the antes, making change where necessary, a single player in the big blind will post the antes for the table. The amount of the Big Blind Ante is always the same amount as the Big Blind and the number of players at the table is irrelevant. This simplifies the ante process immensely and keeps the game from slowing down once the antes kick in.
Now the player in the big blind will post 200 for the blind and another 200 for the table’s antes. If the player in the big blind doesn’t have enough chips to cover both, his/her chips go toward the Big Blind first, then any chips remaining go toward the BB Ante.