Event 13
Event 13 – $100,000 GTD ’Saturday Series’
Level 20: Blinds 6,000/12,000/2,000 ante
Total Entries: 662
Players Remaining: 64
Average Stack: 259,000
We’re at 64 players in the Saturday Series, and the payouts go to 63, so we are now hand for hand.
Speaking of those payouts, here they are.
1st $53,962
2nd $30,341
3rd $19,104
4th $15,508
5th $12,361
6th $10,226
7th $8,203
8th $6,181
9th $4,270
10th-12th: $2,922
13th-15th: $2,135
16th-18th: $1,573
19th-27th: $1,236
28th-36th: $1,101
37th-45th: $989
46th-54th: $877
55th-63rd: $764
Nicky Palma (Out in 68th)
Event 13 – $100,000 GTD ’Saturday Series’
Level 19: Blinds 4,000/8,000/1,000 ante
Total Entries: 662
Players Remaining: 68
Average Stack: 243,000
Nicky Palma open-shoved for his last 200,000 and Allan Vrooman called. Another player went into the tank a long time and eventually folded (he said it was A-J).
Nicky: {Ah}{2d}
Allan: {Kc}{Kd}
No surprises on the board of {9d}{8c}{3h}{Jc}{10s} and Nicky is out in 68th place, just a few spots short of the money.
Event 13 – $100,000 GTD ’Saturday Series’
Level 19: Blinds 4,000/8,000/1,000 ante
Total Entries: 662
Players Remaining: 88
Average Stack: 188,000
Gordon Eng (Cliffside Park, NJ)
We spotted Gordon Eng in the remaining 10 tables of this Saturday Series event. As long-time readers of the Borgata Poker Blog may remember, Gordon was once a full-time fixture on the Borgata poker scene. He tells us that he’s jumped off the roller coaster and got a full-time job as a budget man at a renowned cancer hospital. He still scratches the poker itch on Saturdays, though, as he’s always playing in the Saturday Series. Right now, Gordon has 180,000 in chips … about average.
Gordon collected nearly a million in total tournament earnings before his semi-retirement from poker, and we’re sure he’d love to get over that threshold this weekend.
Event 13 – $100,000 GTD ’Saturday Series’
Level 18: Blinds 4,000/8,000/1,000 ante
Total Entries: 662
Players Remaining: 120
Average Stack: 138,000
Dustin Manns (Philly)
We spotted Dustin Manns, from Philly like many of the players here in January and February (and year-round, really) just doubled through a player by getting {Qh}{Qc} all in preflop versus {Ax}{Kx}. The board ran out {4d}{3c}{9c}{6d}{3d} and the queens were good. Dustin is close to topping the $50,000 mark in poker earnings and won the Survivor event here over the summer back in 2012.
Event 13 – $100,000 GTD ’Saturday Series’
Level 17: Blinds 3,000/6,000/500 ante
Total Entries: 662
Players Remaining: 129
Average Stack: 129,000
Nicky Palma (New Rochelle, NY)
The final 129 players in the always-popular Saturday Series will be playing down to a single winner tonight. We’ll be posting the payouts in the next post, since registration has been closed for a few hours now. Some of the players we’ve spotted that are still in the event:
Nicky Palma
Je Wook Oh
Kat Khaterzai
Steve Fiorentini
Gordon Eng
Keep an eye on this space for all the action all night for this fiercely competitive $100K Guaranteed event.
Event 13 – $100,000 GTD ’Saturday Series’
End of Level 15: Blinds 2,000/4,000/400 ante
Total Entries: 662
Players Remaining: 150
Average Stack: 110,200
Registration closed with 662 (unofficial) entries in this event. Only about 150 of them remain to take their dinner break.
Play will resume after dinner at about 8:25pm.
Event 13 – $100,000 GTD ’Saturday Series’
Level 1 (50/100)
While the main focus of the WPO blog will be the two 12 PM restarts and then the ‘Borgata Million’ live streaming final table, the weekend schedule starts with the $100,000 GTD ‘Saturday Series’. This event ran last weekend without it’s guarantee, thanks to the storm that blew through the East Coast, but this weekend, it returns in all it’s glory.
Hitting that $100,000 mark last week wasn’t a problem but we imagine it will be nearly doubled this weekend, as the weekend warriors and professionals alike will all try to get a piece of the prize pool. This ‘Saturday Series’ event boasts the same structure as Borgata players are used to, as everyone will start with 25,000 tournament chips and play 30 minute levels throughout Event 13.
Late registration will be open through Level 8, meaning players have plenty of time to get in the action. Updates from this event will be few and far between through the early levels, as the WPO blog juggles all the Saturday action but pertinent information will be posted as it becomes available.
If you thought last weekend was busy, welcome to the Winter Poker Open ‘All-Star Weekend’. With the WPT WPO Championship starting tomorrow, the big names are all in town and that showed yesterday, as a star studded ‘$1,000 NLH Six Max’ field came together. Nearly 340 players built up a massive prize pool and that field will return for Day 2 to first play into the money and then, eventually, play down to a winner.
That is only one of seven WPO titles that is up for grabs this weekend though and the first will be awarded on the live stream, as the ‘Borgata Million’ comes back with 10 players remaining. That will be the main focus of the WPO blog come 4 PM when cards get in the air for that final table and ’40 Big Blinds Bounty’ will also come back for Day 2 this afternoon.
Throw in the always massive ‘$100,000 GTD Saturday Series’, along with the start of the ‘$2,500 Heads Up Championship’, the Charity Series of Poker Turbo event, another ‘Pot Limit Omaha High’ tournament and today’s schedule pretty full, pretty quick. The WPO blog will be here to juggle it all and bring you updates from every event throughout the day, with the first of those updates coming shortly as we preview the ‘Borgata Million’ final table.