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Event 10 (Day 1C)

Jan2810:31 am

Event 10: Complete Day 1A, B, C & D Chip Counts

POSTED BY: Will OC

|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 10, Event 10 (Day 1A), Event 10 (Day 1B), Event 10 (Day 1C), Event 10 (Day 1D)

Level 17 (2,500/5,000/500)
Total Day 1A, B, C & D Entrants: 1,452
Total Day 1A, B, C & D Survivors: 254
Chip 
Average: 142,000

The first three starting flights of this $1,000,000 GTD Winter Poker Open event ended with some big stacks but the biggest of those stacks came from last night’s final flight. Kevin Saul bagged over 100,000 chips than his nearest Day 1D competitor, good enough for the clubhouse lead heading into today’s final two starting flights.

The former WPT Champion was spotted late last night buying rounds of beer for his table mates but coming into Day 2, Saul will likely not be in the giving mood. Instead, he’ll try to use his massive stack to first make the money and then, eventually the final table. He’s in a good position to do so, leading the current 254 players that have already advanced into tomorrow’s Day 2 session.

A complete list of those players is provided below, in our always sortable and always searchable table:

PLACEFIRST NAMELAST NAMECHIP COUNT
1KEVINSAUL479,500
2STEPHENJONES437,000
3MIKEWILSON427,500
4KHALEDALWAN403,000
5ALMOGBITON378,000
6JOSEPHCOUDEN377,000
7DANIELMAISANO376,500
8THOMASROMEO354,500
9CARLCARODENUTO353,000
10CRAIGSTERN351,500
11RICHARDBLOCK347,000
12ISMAILOMARA322,000
13MICHAELSANTORO320,000
14GREGORYFISHBERG318,000
15RYANWEBER317,000
16STEPHENGEPP315,500
17STEPHENBENKOVIC315,000
18ANDREWZHU306,500
19DAVIDGERASSI304,000
20STEVENSARMIENTO288,500
21MATTHEWILES279,000
22WILLIAMMILLER274,500
23BARTHOLOMEWGOLIK273,000
24MATTHEWSHAFMAN265,000
25NEILVITIELLO263,000
26NICHOLASGERRITY262,500
27RYANMCCARROLL260,000
28ROBERTSCIAMMARELLA258,500
29JEFFREYTRUDEAU251,500
30BENJAMINWEINGARTEN250,000
31VINCENTPALMERI247,500
32MATTHEWVITALE247,500
33JACKDUYPHDUONG245,500
34ALANSCHEIN245,000
35CHARLESRICE244,000
36CHRISTOPHCSIK237,500
37ALANTADDEI235,500
38MATTHEWWANTMAN227,000
39GREGHIMMELBRAND225,000
40CORNEL ANDREWCIMPAN219,500
41CATHERINEDEVER217,500
42JOHANNESMUELLER214,500
43YULIYAMAKAROVA208,500
44IRVINGMCKENZIE207,000
45DEVONSHALMI207,000
46MICHAELDOBBS204,000
47ZACHARYDENEEN202,000
48TIMOTHYPIRRAGLIA202,000
49MICHAELTELKER200,000
50PHILIPMULLER197,000
51JONATHANKULKAY196,500
52PATRICKNAUGHTON196,500
53JEOH196,000
54NORMANMICHALEK194,000
55JOSEPHTOZZI189,500
56DAVIDELLIOTT187,500
57ANTHONYZINNO187,500
58ROMANVALERSTEIN186,500
59AARONOVERTON185,500
60CHRISTIANPHAM185,500
61BRETTMURRAY183,500
62RYANJONES182,000
63DIMITRIOSBERGOS177,000
64SUNDIATADEVORE177,000
65CHRISTOPHERMIKIL177,000
66SHANEGOSLINE176,500
67TINGHO176,500
68KEVINCALENZO173,500
69ANDREWGLAUBERG173,500
70ROBERTGERRARD171,500
71RAYMONDROSS170,500
72ROBERTCAMPION170,000
73JONATHANBORENSTEIN169,500
74ILYAVASSERMAN169,000
75JOHNMCGUINNESS168,000
76DANIELDASILVA167,500
77BENJAMINLANDI JR167,500
78THEODOROSKARIDIS164,500
79DONALDSHIMAZU164,000
80ROBERTTOFT163,500
81JEANBOULLIANNE163,000
82NENADCVETKOVIC163,000
83MICHAELHOLLENBERG162,500
84ARISTIDESSANTANA162,000
85RYANMCKNIGHT161,500
86PABLOORTIZ161,500
87EDINHOT159,000
88RENATACOLACHE158,500
89STEVENBUCKNER157,500
90BRIANLEBLANC156,000
91LUDOVICGEILICH155,500
92KONSTANTINHIOUTAKOS155,500
93KENHOLMES155,000
94PAULCOBLENTZ153,500
95SCOTTBLACKMAN152,500
96RAJESHDESAI151,000
97WILLIAMGIVENS151,000
98KRZYSZTOFPERKA150,000
99THOMASGLEASON148,000
100MICHAELLINSTER148,000
101MATTHEWEMMEL147,500
102MICHAELMALINCONICO147,500
103PAULPAEZ147,000
104LYLEDIAMOND145,500
105VITOMASI145,500
106RICHARDDEVIVO142,000
107FRANKSCHINCO140,500
108GINOGESSO138,500
109STEVENRODRIGUEZ137,500
110FRANCISROMANO136,000
111BRIANESTRELLA135,000
112CHRISTINEBREWER134,000
113CHRISTIANFRANCIA134,000
114BENJAMINBEAHM133,500
115VLADFRENKEL133,500
116CHRISTOPHERLAIETA133,500
117THOMASMIDENA132,000
118KONSTANTINTOUREVSKI131,500
119LINDAKENNEY BADEN129,000
120JUSTINREIBSCHIED129,000
121SALVATOREBUSACCA126,500
122SAMIRDESAI126,000
123WARRENWIGGINS125,000
124THAIHA123,500
125DARIUSZSZCZECHLA123,500
126EMANUELEANGELICO121,500
127TANNERMILLEN121,500
128RALPHMACRI120,000
129JOSEPHREDDICK119,000
130SALVATORECHIARAMONTE118,000
131REXCLINKSCALES118,000
132SHELDONGROSS117,000
133CASEYYONTZ117,000
134RAYMONDDIDONATO116,500
135BRETTBRUCALERI115,500
136GEORGEMAKROPOULOS115,500
137ANTHONYSPINELLA114,000
138ZOHAIRKARIM113,500
139DAVIDMORENO113,500
140BRIANMURPHY112,500
141IRINAAKERMAN111,500
142JUSTINKADET111,000
143DANIELCHARRETTE110,500
144CASEYGLICK110,000
145VINCENTBASILICATA109,500
146NATHANBJERNO109,500
147VICTORFIGUEROA109,500
148ERICRUFFMAN109,000
149MARKDEVLIN108,000
150THOMASFLYNN105,500
151NICHOLASPALMA105,500
152JAMIEKERSTETTER105,000
153JOHNMALCZAN105,000
154ANTHONYMATTERA105,000
155TONYSABBAGH104,000
156SEANBARRINGER102,500
157KORIHUNTER102,500
158BLAKEWHITTINGTON100,000
159BRETTBADER99,000
160JOHNTOBIAS98,500
161CAITLINHALL98,000
162DANIELKELLY97,000
163ALYSONPARKER95,500
164DOUGLASHARTWICK95,000
165JAMESSALMON94,500
166VITOSCIBILIA94,500
167ROHITCHOPRA93,000
168STEVENPOLIMENI93,000
169JOSEPHCALDERON92,500
170MATTHEWGUNTER92,500
171DEREKECENARRO92,000
172JOSEPHGALAZZO92,000
173SEANMCGUIRE91,500
174ANDREWSPEARS91,500
175STEVENBENNETT90,500
176MARKRISDEN90,500
177CHINMAYPATEL90,000
178AMIRGENZEL89,500
179KENNYLAY89,500
180RALPHMASSEY88,000
181JACKBARNES86,000
182THOMASLAWLER86,000
183JAMESGILBERT83,000
184REESSCRUGGS83,000
185AARONMASSEY82,500
186ALVAROMORGADO82,500
187ERICORNSTEIN80,500
188LEANNEROSENBLATT80,500
189MICHAELTARQUINIO80,000
190HEUNGYOON79,500
191ANDREWHANNA78,500
192JEFFREYWICKER78,500
193RANDYREED78,000
194JOHNSHUPSHINSKAS78,000
195DANIELWAGNER78,000
196ADAMBISHOP77,000
197RYANELLIS76,500
198JOHANSSYJOSEPH76,500
199BRADLEYSNIDER76,500
200FRANCISANDERSON75,500
201ARNDREMARTIN75,000
202STEPHANIEJOHNSTON73,000
203WERNERMULLER73,000
204PHILIPLUELSDORFE71,500
205MEIKATSIU71,000
206JESSE ALEXISCOHEN69,000
207RICHARDALI68,500
208SERGEYPOPOV68,000
209ZECHEN67,500
210MARCMASCARO66,500
211AKASHPATEL66,000
212YIANNOSCHRYSANTHOU65,500
213ADITYAPRASETYO65,500
214CHARLESSMITH65,500
215SCOTTBARLOW64,500
216VITTORIOABBATE63,500
217THOMASBALLA63,500
218WAYNELEWIS62,500
219ERICSIEGEL62,000
220DANIELFURNARI60,000
221MOHAMMEDHAKIM60,000
222CHRISTINEMIZERAK59,500
223GARYKITNER58,500
224AARONSTEURY58,000
225HYUNJIN57,000
226ERICRAPPAPORT57,000
227DOUGLASMACKINNON56,000
228MICHAELCANNON55,500
229OJUSMEHTA55,000
230AARONBELARDO54,000
231JEFFREYAYERS53,500
232JOHNHINDS53,000
233MICHAELMARDER53,000
234QUINTINTRAMMELL53,000
235SHIMONTEYER52,000
236KEVINCAMPBELL50,500
237ROBERTNOEL49,500
238DANOONOOR48,500
239THOMASPOMPONIO47,500
240FRANKBONACCI46,500
241JUSTINTSENG46,500
242KUNALPATEL46,000
243ROBERTROMANOWSKI45,000
244GUSDIMINO44,000
245STEPHENBATTERSBY43,000
246STEPHENSCALES39,500
247JOHNYANNI38,000
248MAHYAREBRAHIMI37,500
249PETERSENNON37,500
250DANIELBAK36,500
251ANNAANTIMONY35,000
252VINCENTGROSSO30,500
253VINCENTCURLEY29,500
254MARCUSBOWER22,500

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Jan278:31 pm

Event 10 (Day 1C): In The Bag

POSTED BY: kaelaine

|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 10, Event 10 (Day 1C)

End of Level 16:  Blinds 2,000/4,000/400 ante 
Flight 1C Entries: 432
Total Event 1 Entries (A+B+C): 1,064
Flight C Players Remaining:  79
Flight C Average Stack:  136,500

The survivors of Flight C have bagged their chips and headed out of the Event Center.

Dan Maisano (Arlington, VA)

Dan Maisano (Arlington, VA) – Flight C Chip Leader

Dan Maisano bagged the most with 376,500, putting him in 4th place overall through the first three flights.

Other big stacks in Flight C:

Tommy Romeo – 354,500
Craig Stern – 351,500
Greg Fishberg – 318,000
Ryan Weber – 317,000
Stosh Gepp – 315,500
Stephen Benkovic – 315,000
W Miller – 274,500
Neil Vitello – 263,000
Ryan McCarroll – 260,000
Jack Duong – 245,500
Greg Himmelbrand – 225,000

Neil Vitiello - Fight C Honorable Mention (since he has a nice smile)

Neil Vitiello – Fight C Honorable Mention (since he has a nice smile)

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Jan277:34 pm

Event 10 (Day 1C): The 300 Club

POSTED BY: kaelaine

|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 10, Event 10 (Day 1C)

Level 16:  Blinds 2,000/4,000/400 ante 
Flight 1C Entries: 432
Total Event 1 Entries (A+B+C): 1,064
Flight C Players Remaining:  100
Flight C Average Stack:  108,000

We’ve got two players vying for the chip lead as they enter the last level of the flight.

Ryan Weber (Philadelphia, PA) & Craig Stern (Croton, NY)

Ryan Weber (Philadelphia, PA) & Craig Stern (Croton, NY)

Ryan Weber has more than $19,000 in reported tournament cashes, but none from Borgata.  He’s well on his way to his first with about 300,000 in chips entering the last level of play.

Also toying with the 300,000 chip mark is Craig Stern.  He’s got four prior cashes at Borgata, two of which were final table appearances.  He says Howard Stern is his third cousin.

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Jan277:11 pm

Event 10 (Day 1C): Fishberg Looking for Fish

POSTED BY: kaelaine

|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 10, Event 10 (Day 1C)

Level 15:  Blinds 1,500/3,000/400 ante 
Flight 1C Entries: 432
Total Event 1 Entries (A+B+C): 1,064
Flight C Players Remaining:  120
Flight C Average Stack:  90,000

Harrison Gimbel (Jupoter, FL) sits to the right of Greg Fishberg (Huntingdon Valley, PA)

Harrison Gimbel (Jupoter, FL) sits to the right of Greg Fishberg (Huntingdon Valley, PA)

Another quiet and reserved player we see regularly here is Greg Fishberg.  Greg has proven his skills on the felt, accumulating more than $682,000 in career earnings.  He’s got two Borgata Open series titles and one WSOP Circuit ring on his resume.  One of those Borgata wins brought him his largest single score.  He won the $1,000 NLH event during the 2008 Summer Poker Open for $115,710.

Today he’s got another accomplished player seated on his right.  Harrison Gimbel finished 9th in the Super Stack Elevator event yesterday ($2,658), adding to his $3.4 million in career earnings.

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Jan276:31 pm

Event 10 (Day 1C): Benkovic Building Stacks

POSTED BY: kaelaine

|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 10, Event 10 (Day 1C)

Level 14:  Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante 
Flight 1C Entries: 432
Total Event 1 Entries (A+B+C): 1,064
Flight C Players Remaining:  140
Flight C Average Stack:  77,100

Stephen Benkovic (Harrisburg, PA)

Stephen Benkovic (Harrisburg, PA)

It’s still early with more than three full levels to play, but Stephen Benkovic is already stacking heaps of chips.  He’s approaching 260,000 — more than three times an average stack and over 108 big blinds.

Apparently his heater started with a modest 54 offsuit in the big blind.  After a raise and call, he came along for the flop.  After flopping an open-ended straight draw, he wasn’t going anywhere and “benked” his straight to beat pocket Tens and pocket Kings.

He went on to beat AK with AQ — by “benking” two Queens on the flop.

While I was watching, he bet his opponent out of the pot on the turn with three spades on board — and showed {5s}{4s}.  He had “benked” his flush on the turn.

Our favorite ‘poker mom’, Alison Parker, is sitting on his right and she’s not too happy about having such a big stack on her left — especially when he keeps “benking” big hands!

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Jan276:08 pm

Event 10 (Day 1C): Four More Levels

POSTED BY: kaelaine

|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 10, Event 10 (Day 1C)

Level 13:  Blinds 1,000/2,000/300 ante 
Flight 1C Entries: 432
Total Event 1 Entries (A+B+C): 1,064
Flight C Players Remaining:  156
Flight C Average Stack:  69,200

Players are back from their last break of the flight and settling in for the final four levels of the night.  After two hours of play, the survivors will bag up their chips.

Those unfortunate enough to bust out will still have the option to join Flight D tonight, or the final two flights tomorrow.

Since this is a best stack forward event, even players who bag chips tonight may opt to play another flight trying to better their situation going into Day 2.

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Jan275:37 pm

Event 10 (Day 1C): Ring-Ring-Ring-Ring-Ring

POSTED BY: kaelaine

|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 10, Event 10 (Day 1C)

Level 12:  Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante 
Flight 1C Entries: 432
Total Event 1 Entries: 1,064
Flight C Players Remaining:  167
Flight C Average Stack:  64,700

Kevin McColgan (Douglasville, PA)

Kevin McColgan (Douglasville, PA)

Kevin McColgan is one of those quiet, polite, unassuming players that you would never notice in a crowd.  That could be why other players underestimate him at the poker table.  Kevin has FIVE WSOP Circuit rings, which ranks him 9th in the world, behind the likes of Chris Reslock and Ari Engel — and one ring ahead of Men ‘the Master’ Nguyen.

In between gathering up all that bling, Kevin also picked up a Borgata Open trophy back in November of 2012, contributing $25,462 to his career earnings of more than $588,000.  He cashed in the Millionaire Maker at last summer’s World Series of Poker in a field of more than 7,000 entrants.

If you see this guy at a poker table, hang on to your chips or they might find their way into his stack!

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Jan275:30 pm

Event 10 (Day 1C): Beahm Binks River, Run Back To FT Still Alive

POSTED BY: Will OC

|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 10, Event 10 (Day 1C)

Level 11 (800/1,600/200)
Total Day 1C Entries: 432
Total Event 1 Entries: 1,064

Ben Beahm finished 2nd in this event last year and even though there is plenty of poker left to be played, if he's able to continue to hit some timely rivers, he could be making another deep run.

Ben Beahm was the runner-up in last year’s ‘Borgata Million’ for an over $125,000 score. There is plenty of poker left to be played this year but if he’s able to continue to hit some timely rivers, he could be making another deep run.

The final table of last year’s Winter Poker Open ‘Borgata Million’ was relatively stacked for a nearly 3,000 player $400 buy-in event. Eventual champion Daniel Buzgon has over $1,000,000 in career earnings and Dan Wach, Travel Thomas, David Zeitlin and Tyng Low have all had their fair share of poker success. While Buzgon claimed that tournament title, and a $195,000 score, that live streamed final table was also where Ben Beahm announced himself to the East Coast poker world.

Coming into that final table, Beahm wasn’t a relative unknown, he didn’t exist in poker. It was his first major tournament score and, in the end, it was good for a $126,000 result. He’s now trying to get back to that final table and, even though it’s early, he just binked a river against Cate Hall to stay alive.

Action was missed but with the board showing {Kh}{7s}{4s}, Cate Hall bet and then called Beahm’s shove holding {8s}{6s}. Beahm held {As}{9s}, meaning Hall’s flush outs counted for nothing but he still had to have his ace-high hold. It couldn’t through the turn, as the {8d} paired up Hall and left Beahm now searing for one of his high cards or a spade.

He got the latter on the river, as the {2s} completed the board and his superior flush. When the dust settled, Hall was cut down slightly to 100,000, while Beahm is playing slightly under that number. He’s got a long way to go if he wants to notch back to back final table runs in this ‘Borgata Million’ but if he’s able to continue to run well and hit some timely rivers, he could find himself on another live stream.

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Jan275:07 pm

Event 10 (Day 1C): Rappaport Re-Enters

POSTED BY: kaelaine

|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 10, Event 10 (Day 1C)

Level 11:  Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante 
Flight 1C Entries: 432
Total Event 1 Entries: 1,064
Flight C Players Remaining:  200
Flight C Average Stack:  54,000

Eric Rappaport (Lansdale, PA)

Eric Rappaport (Lansdale, PA)

Eric Rappaport is another frequent flier here at Borgata with numerous cashes.  He has one Borgata Open title from the 2013 Borgata Poker Open when he took down a $500 Deep Stack NLH event.  After a back-and-forth heads-up battle against Vitor Coelho lasting more than two hours, Eric Rappaport came out on top, claiming his first Borgata Open trophy, $45,183.  His career earnings of more than $314,000 only include one larger score, which came from a 2nd place finish at another venue in October of 2014 for $51,150.

Eric is back in action today after firing once in Flight A yesterday:

Ak<99 for 80k.. Will fire again tmr

— Eric Rappaport (@Rappy300) January 26, 2016

His day has gotten off to a slow start apparently.

Nothing eventful 21k heading into 1kbb

— Eric Rappaport (@Rappy300) January 27, 2016

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Jan274:37 pm

Event 10 (Day 1C): Cimpan Induces a Call?

POSTED BY: kaelaine

|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 10, Event 10 (Day 1C)

Level 10:  Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante 
Flight 1C Entries: 432
Total Event 1 Entries: 1,064
Flight C Players Remaining:  214
Flight C Average Stack:  50,500

Flight C has collapsed down to only 22 tables with 214 players so more than half the Flight C entrants have been eliminated.

Cornel Cimpan (Sacramento, CA)

Cornel Cimpan (Sacramento, CA)

Proving that he hasn’t lost his sense of humor, Cornel Cimpan bet 5,000 on the river with a board of K K 5 8 9.  As his opponent was considering the action, Cimpan said “Don’t call me with Ace-high.  That would be embarrassing.”

He didn’t specify embarrassing for whom, however.  After giving it a bit more thought, his opponent tossed in one blue chip to call.  Cimpan rolled over {7s}{6s} for the rivered straight and his opponent mucked — so we don’t know what he was calling with.

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