Event 22 – ‘Deepest Stack’
Level 27: Blinds 30,000/60,000/5,000 ante
Total Entries: 544
Players Remaining: 27
Average Stack: 1,010,000
Iverson Cotton “Heisenberg” Snuffer (Milton, WV)
Iverson Cotton “Heisenberg” Snuffer tells us about a great hand where he put a guy all in with his {8x}{8x} versus the opponent’s {Ax}{Kx} on a flop of {10x}{10x}{6x}, and the eights held up to put Heisenberg up to 2,700,000 and the apparent chip lead.
There are now 27 players left at three tables. There’s no redraw until 18, and then again at 10.
Event 22 – ‘Deepest Stack’
Level 26: Blinds 25,000/50,000/5,000 ante
Total Entries: 544
Players Remaining: 34
Average Stack: 800,000
Andrew Klein (Ocean, NJ)
Among the final four tables is a player named Andrew Klein, and long-time Borgata tournament grinders should know all about this player. He’s won two Borgata events, including the Bounty event in Fall 2014, and he’s final tabled an astounding 13 additional times in Borgata events over the last several years. If there’s a Borgata series, it’s almost guaranteed that Andrew will final table one of the events (though this would be his first in the 2016 Winter Open, should he make it that far.)
Andrew has over $241,000 in tournament winnings, almost all of it at East Coast events. The other players will need to keep an eye on Andrew as the field shrinks.
Event 22 – ‘Deepest Stack’
Level 25: Blinds 20,000/40,000/4,000 ante
Total Entries: 544
Players Remaining: 42
Average Stack: 648,000
Here are several players that are still standing (well, sitting) at the final five tables.
Cotton “Heisenberg” Snuffer
Allen Hopkins
Coor Patel
James Governa
Andrew Klein
Howard Wolper
Joe “Worm” Palma
Bob Romanowski
Rich Johnson
Event 22 – ‘Deepest Stack’
Level 24: Blinds 15,000/30,000/4,000 ante
Total Entries: 544
Players Remaining: 44
Average Stack: 618,000
Constantine Mamakos (Wayne, NJ)
Constantine Mamakos squared off with our pool champion Allen Hopkins preflop all in, with Constantine having {Ah}[7h} and Allen {Ad}{Qs}. The board ran out {5d}{9s}{Kh}{Kc}{8c} and Constantine was left with 2,000 in chips to his name, not even enough for the ante. He did manage to quadruple up next hand, but went out shortly after in 46th place.
Event 22 – ‘Deepest Stack’
End of Level 23: Blinds 12,000/24,000/3,000 ante
Total Entries: 544
Players Remaining: 49
Average Stack: 555,000
The remaining 49 players in this, the final event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, are on a 15-minute colorup break.
We expect play to wrap up at about 7:30 a.m. at the current pace. Keep your browser right here and break out the Red Bull!
Event 22 – ‘Deepest Stack’
Level 23: Blinds 12,000/24,000/3,000 ante
Total Entries: 544
Players Remaining: 54
Average Stack: 504,000
Bill Miller (Connecticut)
Just before the bubble broke, a crazy hand developed between billiards hall-of-famer Allen Hopkins and the player to his left, Bill Miller from Connecticut. They both saw a flop of {7x}{6d}{2d}, and Bill’s chips went on. Allen called.
Bill: {7x}{7x}
Allen: {Ad}{8d}
The turn was the {5d}, giving Allen the flush, but the river was another five ({5h}) gving Bill the full house. Allen is still in, but is exceptionally short stacked.
While this was happening, Sheri Moores from Wayne, PA went out on the bubble. We are now in the money.
Event 22 – ‘Deepest Stack’
Level 23: Blinds 12,000/24,000/3,000 ante
Total Entries: 544
Players Remaining: 55
Average Stack: 495,000
We’re at 55 players now, and we’re entered hand for hand play. The next one our will be our bubble citizen and will not get paid. Everyone else after that will earn at least $549 on a $260 + $40 buy-in.
Event 22 – ‘Deepest Stack’
Level 22: Blinds 10,000/20,000/3,000 ante
Total Entries: 544
Players Remaining: 61
Average Stack: 446,000
We’re down to seven tables now, and the payouts start at six tables, or 54 players, so we’re less than one table away from the money. When we hit 55, we’ll be hand for hand, which means each table will play a single hand and stop until each table has played one hand, then repeat the process until the bubble man or woman goes out and the remaining players cash.
Event 22 – ‘Deepest Stack’
Level 22: Blinds 10,000/20,000/3,000 ante
Total Entries: 544
Players Remaining: 71
Average Stack: 383,000
Iverson Cotton “Heisenberg” Snuffer (Milton, WV)
With a name like Iverson Cotton Snuffer, would this gregarious gentleman need a nickname? In fact, he likes to go by “Heisenberg,” complete with the hat worn by the Breaking Bad antihero. Heisenberg owns a pool and outdoor leisure company in West Virginia, and is understandably busy during the summer months, to the tune of 90 hours per week. But the rest of the year, he’s free to travel around and play poker with some of the greats — and he’s even beaten them on occasion.
Heisenberg won a Big Stack event here two years ago for his largest finish to date, and also boasts wins and final tables at the Ohio Poker Championship, the WSOP National Championship and the Heartland Poker Tour. He tells us that he’s made stacked final tables against some of the best players in the world, and research shows that like his real name, just about everything else he says is true. He even wrote a book long ago about how to cheat at cards, though he says he gave that up ages ago.
Heisenberg has more than $357,000 in tournament winnings, and we covered him just last night because he final tabled the Deeper Stack event. He’s still in the mix in this, the Deepest Stack event, but he’ll have to outlast dozens more players to make back-to-back final tables. If anyone can do it, it’s Heisenberg, because science.
Event 22 – ‘Deepest Stack’
Level 21: Blinds 8,000/16,000/2,000 ante
Total Entries: 544
Players Remaining: 80
Average Stack: 340,000
Here are some of the players we’ve spotted among the final nine tables.
Coor Patel
Andrew Klein
“The General”
Michael Rubin
Jinglin Chen
James Governa
Rob Gerrard
Luis Urioste
Saad Ghanem
Max Amjadi
Iverson Cotton “Heisenberg” Snuffer
Allen Hopkins
Brian Wright
Richard DeViro
Howard Wolper
Joe “Worm” Palma