Event 11
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Level 12: Blinds 15000/3000/500 ante
Entries: 401
Ryan The Lion doubles up on 64 through A. Nonymous in a dangerous limped pot with the old lead, crai line.
Gabor Nagy on 52 has 450,000.
Ron Sims pulls into the chip lead, however, with 575,000 on 68.
Registration ends after the break following this level.
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Level 1: Blinds 75/150
While Flight B of the Almighty Million approaches the end of the registration/re-entry period, Flight C is taking off in the back of the Event Center.
This is the third of five starting flights in this $1M GTD event. Players get 100,000 chips to start and all Day 1 levels are 30 minutes long. They’ll play through level 17, then bag up for the night (about 1:30am).
Late registration and unlimited re-entries are possible until the start of level 13 (about 10:45pm). The final two flights run tomorrow at 10am and 5pm.
Registration remains open in Flight A for about 45 more minutes, but why fire there when you can start fresh back here?
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Level 11: 1,200/2,400/with a 400 ante
Entries: 400
Joe “Chip Bully” Reddick
On a flop of 
, with around 40,000 in the pot, Dan DiZenzo checks from the small blind to Joe “Chip Bully” Reddick in the cutoff, who also checks.
Both players check the 
on the turn. The river brings the 
, DiZenzo checks, and Reddick bets 40,000. DiZenzo thinks shortly, then calls for most of his stack. Reddick mucks, and DiZenzo takes the pot without having to show.
Dan DiZenzo – 215,000
Joe Reddick – 210,000
Dan DiZenzo makes the correct call
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Entries: 398
Wade Meacham
Wade Meacham’s 
won a flip against the player on his right, who had pocket 5s. The board came A J T 2 8 and Wade took the pot, chipping up to ~225,000.
Wade’s got two Borgata Open series wins to his credit. He won the 2017 Winter Poker Open $260 DeepStack NLH event for more than $33,000, then later that year, he won the Spring Open Super Stack Elevator event for $17,000 (adjusted payout).
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Level 11: Blinds 1,200/2,400/400 ante
Entries: 394
April Motola
The two Ladies on table 10 clashed, resulting in Kathy Liebert heading for the exit. April Motola had 
and apparently made a back-door flush to take the pot. She doubled up to about 165,000.
Kathy thought she was felted and was out the door before the dealer determined she still had 3,000 left. She’ll be blinded off if she doesn’t return. Most likely she’ll be registering for the 4pm flight which will start soon.
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Level 10: Blinds 1000/2000/300 ante
Entries: 389
On 58, Andre Martin bet the 
6600 in position, getting a call from Agenor Souza.
Martin in action on 58. He shuffles the chips between his hands while considering a decision.
The 
went check check, opening up the door to river aggression from Souza. On the 
Souza seized the initiative with a small 8500 lead, but Martin still didn’t like it, slamming his cards into felt.
Every chip matters on a table with no big stacks.
Agenor is up to 130,000.
A limp pot was created next, no one wanting to put too much in.
The second limper, Tomas Terran bet a very dry 
from the field. It’s entirely possible, given conditions, that he could have limped a hand as strong as a decent or suited ace, or maybe even two fives. The blinds folded and the first limper called.
A 
filled a less likely hand for the EP limpers, the gutterball, but Terran again fired, a full 25,000.
Terran, center, gathering chips after making the limp versus limp work.
His opponent did not like it and folded, indicating he did have a bluffcatcher.
“I figured that I’d have to call another bet on the river, too,” which he clearly didn’t want to do.
Terran moves to 145,000.
While no crushing chip leader has emerged, several stacks above 300,000 are around, and here’s one:
Josh Rogers, over 360,000, on 53.
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End of Level 8: Blinds 600/1200/200 ante
Entries: 355
We return at 2:33 PM.
Mark Carpo doubles to over 300,000 in the final hand before break, fading his opponent’s two way draw.
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Level 8: Blinds 600/1200/200 ante
Entries: 343
John Diolosa flipped up his cards, wanting to rip them, it seemed, then mucked, while A. Nonymous turned over the aces, despite his 75,000 value bet into Diolosa going uncalled.
Just aces. “I’ve had them four time today.”
Everyone is surely happy for him.
Diolosa gets another chance, this time opening and picking up Trevor Jones in the small. Bets go in on 
, a 
goes check-check, and then more madness.
The river brings an , as well as a tempting, one red chip lead from Jones. Diolosa is beside himself, flipping a very dodgy 
in his hand before announcing “donation.”
Jones has 
for the straight and moves up to 122,000. More frustration.
Bobby Cheung and Ryan Schnabel are also on 64. Two ambassadors of style. Where’s their little orange rectangle sticker?
Meanwhile, on 60, another big stack emerging: John Stellati has 325,000.
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Level 6: Blinds 400/800/100 ante
Entries: 306
Cathy Dever opened and fired 3,000 into the button Joe Ulm on 
, a natural enough bet.
Dever: The blank shells don’t hurt Ulm.
However, her second barrel 8,000 on the was more interesting. As the ten will hit Ulm more often than her, she is rapidly polarizing herself to an extremely strong hand or a miss.
Ulm hesitated, made a big sigh, and then called.
On a blank river, Cathy put in a small 11,000, attempting to look like a thin value bet. Cathy is representing exactly a good 
or air now.
However, the dangers of betting someone elses’ card were brought to fruition. Realizing how strong she had repped on the turn and now a little cautious, Ulm only called with trips, 9x].
It didn’t matter. Cathy mucked her cards instantly, likely a that had come up empty.
Joe moves up toward 190,000, and Cathy is on fumes.
In the next hand, Liz McKane got a three bet through, then a big one erupted with Ulm again at the center of the action.
Liz McKane takes a small one before the Harmon/Ulm pot.
Larry O’Halloran limped from EP. Ulm raised, and McKane came along, then the button raised. Wayne Harmon then stuck in four bet SB. Harmon overcalled, which brought along everyone else but McKane.
The flop came
. Harmon led 11,000 into the near 20,000, O’Halloran folded. Ulm in fact is the only one in the field who calls.
The board pairs the 
, and this time the preflop aggressor Harmon checks, and Ulm bets a small 10,000 into the 40,000. What’s going on?
Ulm, foreground left, reckons with a table full of fight, here against a three bet followed by the cold 4.
Even more curious, Haromon now check raises tiny to 22,000, and Ulm flats.
The arrives on the river, filling Ulm’s perceived top pairs but shutting out his draws. All over pairs belong to Harmon, who also has nearly no fives in his range.
He sagely checks, allowing Ulm to bet. They are dinging each other small at this table, and this river bet is no different: 25,000.
The perfect spot is going to turn sour for Wayne Harmon, right.
Harmon is exasperated. He must have decided Ulm has few bluffs in this range at that sizing, whispers his hand to a table mate, and lets it go.
Nice sequence for Ulm, now a big stack.
A tough way to end the hand for what looks like a premium holding.
Meanwhile, Ulm is rising on 68, now well past 200,000.
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Level 4: Blinds 200/400/75 ante
Entries: 220
Gary Kosakowski
Last summer, Gary Kosakowski battled his way back from a 4:1 chip deficit to beat Anna Antimony heads-up in the Pot Limit Omaha event. He collected his first Borgata trophy and $9,000 (adjusted payout).
Summer’s are hot for Gary as the previous year, he finished runner-up in the Kickoff event, scoring his best live cash of $129,778. Last Fall, he finished 3rd in the Kickoff, taking home another $85,480.
So far this Winter Open, Gary’s been ‘cooler’ and has yet to cash, but he’s back on the felt today in the Almighty Million grinding away.