Event 14
Event 14 – $2,000 ‘Heads Up Championship’
Round of 64
The first half of the Event 14 ‘Heads Up Championship’ bracket is the “left” side of the bracket, if you are looking at the board near the entrance to the Event Center. We’ve split this bracket into four groups and highlighted a player from each, with a complete list of the first half Round of 64 match-ups listed below:
Darren Elias is still waiting for his opponent to show up but in the meantime, the two-time WPT world champion is likely looking ahead to tomorrow. That’s where he’ll try to start his 2016 with another deep WPT run, after winning the BPO Championship in September of 2014 and finishing 17th at Borgata last fall.
Theodoros Manolatos vs. Ravi Dalsania
Chad Eveslage vs. Kevin Campbell
Darren Elias vs. Steven Sarmiento
Sidney Zweigbaum vs. Hye Park
Brian Reinart has had success on nearly every tour and circuit you can think of, including a recent 3rd place finish in California in a WPTDS event, but he’s yet to ever record a Borgata Poker cash. H’s here for the big events this weekend, starting with the ‘Heads Up Championship’.
Sam Panzica vs. Hunter Cichy
Brian Reinert vs. Michael Millikin
Christopher Odle vs. David Paredes
Patrick McLaughlin vs. Tyler Patterson
Andy Spears is coming off a third place finish of his own, as he notched a podium run in the WSOPC Main Event at Choctaw earlier this month. He’s yet to find that kind of form through the WPO and will hope to turn it around starting in Event 14.
Linda Kenney-Baden vs. Andy Spears
Jake Schwartz vs. Anthony Newman
Aaron Mermelstein vs. Michael Shklover
Craig Bergeron vs. Andrew Gileno
You know it’s ‘All-Star Weekend’ when the world’s best hit the Borgata felt. Yevgeniy Timoshenko is just that, as he’s claimed titles across the globe and amassed nearly $7,000,000 in career earnings.
Sirous Jamshidi vs. Frank Moir
Carl Tirella vs. Matthew Emmel
Chris Limo vs. Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Christopher McNamara vs. Joey Couden
Event 14 – $2,000 ‘Heads Up Championship’
Round of 64
Players are waiting to hear who they will be facing in Round 1, as the Event 15 ‘Heads Up Championship’ bracket draw is currently taking place.
With three other events running in the Event Center, the primary focus of today’s WPO blog coverage has been on the two Day 2 restarts. They’re still working towards the money but, briefly, the attention will now turn to the Event 14 $2,000 ‘Heads Up Championship’ bracket draw.
This is always one of the most competitive events that the Borgata offers, as players play one-on-one in a 64 man bracket style tournament until one remains. Matches have a best-of-three structure and many professionals think this event, in some cases, determines the “best” poker player of the series.
The top pros all have this event circled as a must play with many choosing to jump in before the start of tomorrow’s $3,000,000 GTD WPT WPO Championship. This tournament will play into the money tonight but a champion won’t be crowned until tomorrow, when the final two rounds are live streamed, one of the first ever broadcasts of it’s kind.
When the bracket fills out, we will update you on all the first round match-ups.
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.