Chris Tryba (Las Vegas)
Level 11:
Blinds 600/1200/200 ante
Total Event 1B Entries: 320
Bob Johnson from Colorado, really Chris Tryba from Vegas, from had the bright idea to order a whole bunch of pizzas from one of the quality Atlantic City pizza establishments. While slinging slices all over the room, and eating pizza himself, he managed to bust a player between chews. One player (at another table)’s price for a pizza slice? “Tell me what you had,” referring to a hand earlier in the night.
“A set,” says the opponent begrudgingly.
“A set of threes? Really?!” says “Bob” as he offers him a slice of mushroom. “Bob” continues to call this player “Set of Threes” from the next table over throughout the rest of the level.
“Bob” is sitting on a healthy slice of chips: 122,000, to be exact.
Bruce Kramer (California)
Level 10:
Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante
Total Event 1B Entries: 320
Bruce Kramer is a Californian with a glittering skull as a card capper. “It’s a Skullcrusher,” says Kramer. “I only wear skulls.”
He certainly looked prepared to crush some skulls after going all in on a flop of {3h}{10h}{2h}. Everyone folded and he picked up a good pot, bringing him up to 30,400. Bruce flashed the {Ah} as he dragged in his chips.
Level 9:
Blinds 400/800/75 ante
Total Event 1B Entries: 317
Matt Stout (Las Vegas, NV)
Matt Stout is still alive and is sitting on 37,300 in chips. “It’s my third bullet,” he says. Two in flight A, one in flight B? “Other way around,” he says.
Players have just gone on a 15 minute break heading into Level 10.
Robert Miller (Nanuet, NY)
Level 9:
Blinds 400/800/75 ante
Total Event 1B Entries: 309
Robert Miller is a player from the hamlet of Nanuet, NY. “The cultural center of the known universe,” says Robert. “We got a strip mall, nice school, safe streets.”
A player in late position threw out 2,200 and Robert Miller called. The flop ran out {6d}{4c}{6s}. The player threw out 3,200 and Robert called.
The turn was {Qc} and the player bet 3,600 and Robert called again. The river was {6h}, the player bet 8,600 again and Robert called.
The player turned over {7d}{8s}, but Robert had the {9d}{9c} for sixes over nines. Robert now has 47,000.
Vinny Pahuja (New Jersey)
Level 7:
Blinds 250/500/50 ante
Total Event 1B Entries: 290
Vinny Pahuja is one of our BorgataPoker.com online qualifiers. He tells us that he not only satellited into this Event 1, but also our $3,300 + $200 WPT Main Event. He won both satellites in the same evening. He tells us that the action is amazing on there and satelliting in online is definitely the way to go.
We may see Vinny in a later flight of Event 1, though, as he pushed his last 7,000 in chips in late position and was called by Julio Gonzales.
Vinny: {2d}{2c}
Julio: {9h}{Ah}
Board: {Jh}{Kc}{9d}{3d}{As}
And Vinny heads to the rail. Perhaps we’ll see him again tomorrow.
Julio Gonzales: 29,000
Will “The Thrill” Failla (Commack, NY)
Level 6: Blinds 200/400/50 Ante
Total Event 1B Entries: 263
We spotted Will “The Thrill” Failla at the same table as Ahmed Mohamed. Uncharacteristically quiet, Will is sitting on a stack of 20,600 in Flight 1B after having busted in Flight 1A earlier in the day.
Will is one of the winningest players on the East Coast poker scene, having amassed winnings of $4,936,850. His most recent Borgata win was at the Summer Poker Open main event for a $238,301 score.
Ahmed Mohamed (Scots Plains, NJ)
Level 5: Blinds 150/300/25 ante
Total Event 1B Entries: 244
Ahmed Mohamed is one of the bigger stacks thus far in the B flight of Event 1. He’s sitting on about 70,000 in chips and tells us that he began using the nickname “Drawing Dead” Ahmed during the WSOP when an intrepid reporter covered his opponent but didn’t get his name at first. Ahmed had gone to Media Row at the WSOP to complain. “What’s your name?” the reporter said. “‘Drawing Dead’ Ahmed,” said Ahmed.
Today, he has a different comment, this time for his fellow tablemates. “We going to play poker this level, or…?” he inquires.
Danny Currie
Level 14:
Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante
Total Event 1 Entries: 864
Immediately after the previous hand, Matt Stout shoves his last 21,000 and Danny Currie calls.
Stout: {9h}{9c}
Currie: {Qs}{Ac}
The board runs out {4d}{Qc}{6h}{10s}{Jd}
And Stout stands up and heads out of the Event Center. We don’t yet know if he plans to enter back in to Flight B.
Danny Currie: 94,000
Lewis Alves
Level 14:
Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante
Total Event 1 Entries: 864
Caught the end of this hand. From first position with a flop of {2d}{6h}{Kh}, Lewis Alves went all in for about 16,000 in chips. In late position, Matt Stout calls and flops over {7h}{5h} for a heart flush draw. Alves turns over {Kc}{Js} for a pair of kings. The turn and river run out {Qs}{Jd} and the two pair leaves Stout with a mere 21,200 remaining.
Lewis Alves: 84,000