Event 6
$300+$40 Seniors Deep Stack NLH
Level 17: Blinds 3000/6000/500
Entrants: 183
Players Remaining: 18
Average Chips: 152,500
Istvan Szabo opens, then Goodman ships his dust on table one. He picks up two more players, and can’t make 
win, as Bumble picks up the 40,000 with 
.
Goodman’s last stand. Istvan is on his right.
Meanwhile, on three, Joe LeClaire finds himself with little choice but to go with queens against a shove and reshove, but he’s against the dreaded aces.
No problem: he makes queens full on the turn, chips up, and brings us two away.
Aces celebrate prematurally – LeClaire, left, will win.
Then, Ted Steiner. a dealer at the Sands, shoves nines and Bumble defends with tens. Again, no problem, the answering nine is in the window and he fades a gutter and two more outs for a needed double to about ten bigs.
Steiner awaited the bad, and then good, news. Here he collects on the suck out.
However, the bubble can’t be dodged forever: it’s local legend Bob Brady who takes the fall as our 19th place finisher, losing the seminal tournament flip, 
against 
from Schuman.
Bubble Boy Bob Brady: no love from the deck.
The uniquely named Chester Ladyga slips into the money with just a few blinds.
We now gather to the final two tables and the clock is paused.
$300+$40 Seniors Deep Stack NLH
Level 17: Blinds 3000/6000/500
Entrants: 183
Players Remaining: 23
Average Chips: 119,348
Peter Sennon has snuck up the ladder, mostly unnoticed.
“I’m in disguise,” he joked.
The experienced tournament player has over 250,000, most of it courteous of the two-pair versus set hand. The anonymous player who led the field ran bad and busted shortly after, and now Sennon’s main competition at table one is a tough cookie, Jim Boyd.
Peter Sennon on 1: smiles.
$300+$40 Seniors Deep Stack NLH
End of Level 16: Blinds 2,500/5000/500
Entrants: 183
Players Remaining: 24
Average Chips: 114,375
The seniors never like to give up on their tournament lives easily, and it’s been slow going in attempting to reach the final 18. We’re going to see another break first.
Dry flop check raise from Boyd will get a cranky fold from Bumble, right foreground. Boyd claims a weak top pair in a fairly classic tournament play.
However, Boyd pays off Sennon for three streets with worse full house on another dry board. “Max Value,” cries the satsified Sennon. Big hit for the chip leader.
We return at 7:50 PM.
$300+$40 Seniors Deep Stack NLH
Level 15: Blinds 2,000/4,000/400
Entrants: 183
Players Remaining: 28
Average Chips: 98,036
Jim Boyd and James Moore tangle on 4. The flopped nuts can’t get more than a street of action from the BB, though, and Moore escapes Jim’s rungood.
Bob Brady is hanging in on 4 as well with about 13 bigs.
Santos, left, is over 250,000 but now big stack Solomon is on his left.
Change of fortune on one. A limped pot allows the former big stack to get coolered by Peter Sennon’s set.
The biggest development of the past level is the anonymous big stack on 1, who got himself into a bind against a flopped set, paying off Sennon the max. Suddenly peter has 200,000 and the big stack has less than 100,000.
Patience: Scott Goodman has had not much to work with but is still here a table from the money.
$300+$40 Seniors Deep Stack NLH
Level 14: Blinds 1500/3000/400
Players Remaining: 34
Average Chips: 80,735
While Mr. Theissguyy’s stack of 170,000 seems to see few fluctuations, Jim Boyd on table 4 has been on a tear.
He just turned over 
, getting paid a sweet 25,000 on the river for his flush by TPTK.
With this victory, Jim, a former Senior’s champ here at the Borgata and something of a poker legend overall, cruises ahead of our anonymous leader on one, as well as Theissguyy, with 275,000.
Key pot for Boyd as we approach the money. Jim clearly still enjoys dragging pots!
Howard Schuman is back from fall, making another strong run on table 2.
Rauschenberger, foreground left,one of the more dangerous players in the tourney, has been crippled. Here he folds for his tournament life to big stack Meir Solomon, all-in.
$300+$40 Seniors Deep Stack NLH
Total Entries: 183
Total Buy-In: $54,900
Prize Pool: $53,253
The Seniors made a respectable showing with 183 entrants. The final 18 will earn a piece of the pie:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $15,709 |
| 2 | $8,787 |
| 3 | $5,325 |
| 4 | $4,260 |
| 5 | $3,195 |
| 6 | $2,663 |
| 7 | $2,130 |
| 8 | $1,598 |
| 9 | $1,198 |
| 10 – 12 | $1,065 |
| 13 – 15 | $932 |
| 16 – 18 | $799 |
$300+$40 Seniors Deep Stack NLH
End of Level 12: Blinds 1000/2000/300
Players Remaining: 44
Average Chips: 62,386
Our anonymous chip leader has moved to 189,000 despite being ‘nicked’ for a painful 8500 this level.
On three, Josias Santos, left, has 125,000 and Mark M, over a 100,000.
Meanwhile, Mr. Thiesguyy has moved to 170,000 and is in contention for the lead.
We’re back at 4:48 PM.
$300+$40 Seniors Deep Stack NLH
End of Level 11: Blinds 800/1600/200
Players Remaining: 54
Average Chips: 50,833
An anonymous player on one, hiding from his boss, has amassed over 170,000! Great job playing hooky so far.
Meanwhile, other are giving pursuit.
Meir Solomon on 2 has over 120,000 and change – a lot of change.
Henry Bumble always seems to have chips in this tourney – here is with over 125,000.
$300+$40 Seniors Deep Stack NLH
Level 10: Blinds 600/1200/200
Entries: 183
Players Remaining: 63
Average Chips: 43,571
In a four way pot, an extreme short stack shoved his last chips into one time chip leader Louis DeSorbo and TJ Shulman.
DeSorbo seemed to want to call light on 
, especially given price, but didn’t like the action with the unpredictable Shulman behind.
DeSorbo, newly situated at 6 on the button. Here he folds to the tiny shove…
DeSorbo sagely released and Shulman didn’t waste any time getting in the call.
“What am I up against,” he inquired, indicating he knew he was beat.
His opponent flipped up and that was fine with Shulman. Open ended with yet another small connector, the 
, all he wanted was not to see a set which could ruin his equity.
…but Shulman, left, sticks it in and gets there. That’s Moore on this left.
The board paired another 
on the turn, but Shulman drilled the 
on the river for a wheel against queens up. His opponent rose. “That’s how I run,” he grumbled.
Out.
In the next hand, an open limp caught TJ’s eye. “I’m not falling for that again!” he said humorously, perhaps indicating a prior limp raise from his opponent. He completed from the small, and James Moore in the big simply checked his option.
On 
, the action checked around. Since the open limper would bet an overpair for protection, it seemed safe for TJ to lead the turn, and that the limp had been an honest one.
To Shulman’s suprise, both players called his 3,000 lead on the , and Shulman was openly less than thrilled.
“Make it black!” he cried to the dealer, who did not deliver, dropping a 
. Shulman checked, James in the big led for 5,000, and everyone gave up.
“That’s what I get for checking two pair on the flop,” commented TJ. True or not, it’s possible with Shulman’s wide range, and the one card flush made any further action hard.
Then, key action. The UTG player min raised, and Reynaldo Ong in Seat one put in nice small 3 bet to 5,000. Shulman, always ambitious, overcalled with the button, the blinds surrendered, and UTG flatted.
On 
, the opener checked and the 3 bettor overbet shoved, transparently representing the overpair. Shulman had nothing to gamble with this time and folded, but the UTG min raiser had binked. He now check called the shove, flipping over 
for top two.
Ong, center, wins a huge one with kings.
THe board did not run out clean, however, as the deuce paired on the end, giving Ong and his Kings a better two pair.
Once again from the exiting player – “that’s how I run.”
Ong moves up to 65,000. Moore has 50,000. DeSorbo has taken a hit to 60,000, and Shulman has about the same.
$300+$40 Seniors Deep Stack NLH
End of Level 8: Blinds 400/800/100
Entries: 182
Final registration for Event 6 is at the end of the current break.
Michael Rauschenberger went deep last, year, and is gaining already, with over 55,000.
We return at 2:33 PM.