Event 18 Championship
$3,300+$200 WPT Borgata WPO Championship
$3 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 3: Blinds 100/200/200 BB Ante
Entries: 274
(L to R): WPT Crew Brenden Johnson, Borgata Tournament Director Tab Duchateau, WPT VP Angelica Hael, Cathy Zhao, & Tony Dunst; Borgata Marketing’s Simon Pogelin, Borgata Poker’s Deb Daly, & WPT Crew Andrea Johnson.
The World Poker Tour’s Tony Dunst made some opening comments as players returned from their first break.
Play has resumed and the Big Blind Ante is in play.
Instead of each player at the table anteing and the dealer having to sort out who has posted and who hasn’t, and collect all the antes, making change where necessary, a single player in the big blind will post the antes for the table. The amount of the Big Blind Ante is always the same amount as the Big Blind and the number of players at the table is irrelevant. This simplifies the ante process immensely and keeps the game from slowing down once the antes kick in.
Now the player in the big blind will post 200 for the blind and another 200 for the table’s antes. If the player in the big blind doesn’t have enough chips to cover both, his/her chips go toward the Big Blind first, then any chips remaining go toward the BB Ante.
$3,300+$200 WPT Borgata WPO Championship
$3 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 1: Blinds 100/100
Entries: 185
2018 Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event Champion Eric Afriat
Last January, this event drew 1,244 entrants for a total prize pool of more than 3.98 million. He’s a real estate professional from Quebec, Canada who claims poker as a recreational hobby. His play, however, continues to elude professionals and he used his aggressive style to get the better of Joseph McKeehen, Zach Gruneberg, and Justin Zaki during heads up play to win the title, which was his second WPT title.
$3,300+$200 WPT Borgata WPO Championship
$3 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 1: Blinds 100/100
Entries: 140
Cards are in the air here in the Event Center for the first of two starting flights/days.
Action is underway up front of the room, with all tables playing 9-handed.
Over the next two days, we’ll be seeing some of the biggest names in the game turn up to try their hand at this $3 Million Guaranteed prize pool.
$3,300+$200 WPT Borgata WPO Championship
$3 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Over the last two weeks, the Winter Poker Open blog has brought you updates from 17 main events and today, we team up with the World Poker Tour live updates team to cover the marquis event of the series. The World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship is set to begin at 11am and this event will see some of the world’s best players converge on the Borgata for this $3 Million Guaranteed Championship event.
Players will start with 40,000 in tournament chips and all Day 1 levels will last 60 minutes. Late registration is open until the start of Level 11, which will be two hours into Day 2 (Tuesday). Flight A will end after eight levels (about 7:45pm) and surviving players will bag up their chips and return for Day 2 on Tuesday at 12 noon. Flight B will begin Monday at 11am and follow the same structure.
This event is a best stack forward tournament, meaning that players can play both starting flights. If they bag chips at the end of Flight A, they can try again in Flight B without automatically forfeiting their bagged chips. If they bag a second time, they will take the biggest stack into Day 2. This is also an unlimited re-entry tournament that allows players to fire as many times as they want until registration closes.
The tournament staff are finalizing preparations on the tables in the Event Center and the doors are set to open in just a few minutes.