Champ: More Tweet-Outs

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH 

More bust-outs reported via Twitter:

Robert Hwang ‏ @ActionBobNJ
Busto. Raised limper with QJs. Triple barreled KT4-4-2 including river bomb assuming top pair folds. He called :)

Mike Wolf ‏ @MikeWolf7
Out of Borg main. Had AQo on J1098 board. Fish cold called my 3b oop with KQ

Keep those Tweets coming!  #BSO2012

Twitter Decoder:
3B = three-bet (re-raise)

OOP = Out Of Position

Champ: Doublin', Doublin'

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH  

Level 12:  Blinds 600/1,200, 100 ante

Players are back from break.

During the previous level, Michael 'Mad Dog' Shasho was all-in with A8 against the pocket Jacks of Jay Sharon.  The board came 9 5 2 A A and Mad Dog doubled up.

Cornel Cimpan's A8 did not fare as well.  He had a shorter-stack all-in holding AQ.  The board came J 7 3 9 7 and Cornel shipped the double across the felt.

Mad Dog Shasho doubled up again when all-in with KQ against Mark Sykes' pocket Jacks.  Mark's pocket pair did not hold and and Mad Dog doubled up again.

Event 18: Time to Check the Tweets

$400 + $50 Deep Stack Semi-Turbo NLH

Tweets from today's other main event, over in the Poker Room:

adam lippert ‏ @lippypoker
145 people no reentries actually nice sized field

Mark Scellato ‏ @mscell 
Busto semi turbo. 3bet squeeze KQ from CO vs raiser and caller but SB finds AK and holds.

Jerry Callahan ‏ @callahanja911
46k at 500/1000 w 100


Keep those Tweets coming!  #BSO2012

 Twitter Decoder:
CO = CutOff (one spot right of the button)

Champ: Killer/Comedy Corner

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH  

End of level 11 and time for a break!

Table Three:  Steve Dannenmann, Mike Sica, & Orson Young

Table three was a tough draw from the beginning, but the far end of the table is a Killer Corner of players:

Steve Dannenmann
Mike 'Little Man' Sica
Orson Young

They're fairly quiet so far today, but Steve and Mike are usually fairly entertaining, liking to joke it up at the table.

Champ: Tweet-Outs

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH 

Bust-outs reported via Twitter:

Adam Cook ‏ @AdamNCook
Annnnd out, AK=AK<JJ AIPF. I open UTG, 17k stack shoves, next player thinks n flats, I ISO 58k, he thinks for a few secs n calls. GG.

Lee Childs ‏ @leechilds
KK<53. GG me. GG Borgata. GL to all my awesome friends. You all help make this grind worth it.

Rob Lederer ‏ @KramerTM
Not sure I could have done much differently 2day. Last hand I get QdTd all in on JK6 flop, 2 diamonds. Guy limped KK UTG, filled up on river


Twitter Decoder:
AIPF = All In Pre Flop
UTG = Under The Gun
ISO = ISOlate
GL = Good Luck
GG = Good Game

Champ: More Departures

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH 
 
On a flop of K 8 2 with two hearts, Anthony Forte was all-in against Mike Dentale. 

Anthony had AK suited in hearts for top pair with flush draw. 

Mike had pocket Aces and had to sweat the last two, which came offsuit 3 9.  Forte was busted.

Matt Matros called all-in holding A8 off and was up against the pocket Kings of Rocco Luciano.

The board ran J T 4 2 7 and Rocco's Kings were good.  Matt headed for the door.

Also gone: 
Scott Blackman
Chien Huu Vo
Rohan Long
Richard Marshall Jr.
Robert Albert
Bryan Bindert

Champ: Early Departures

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH 

These folks have taken an early exit:

Matthew Cohen
Christopher Walker
Akim Akimov
William Bariban
Ronald Lee
John Gulino
Greg Fishberg
Daniel Klodowski

David Zeitlin was busted by Joseph Primavera.

Champ: Underway

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH 

Play has resumed on day two of the Championship Event.

Levels are now 75 minutes long and they will play eight levels today with breaks after each.

Not all players have yet claimed their seats here in the Signature Room, but the action has begun.

Event 18: Familiar Faces

$400 + $50 Deep Stack Semi-Turbo NLH 

More familiar faces have turned up among the tables already in action:

Ken 'Teach" Aldridge
Jimmy Wong
Joe Liberta
Ta Wey
Brian Ali
Mickael Morgousky
Jared Jaffee
Adam Lippert

Event 18: Early Arrivals

$400 + $50 Deep Stack Semi-Turbo NLH 

These players have already taken their seats:

Barbara Rogers
John Zoldak
Leo G
Tony Anotnious
Jesse Cohen
Len Vizirov
Frank Richardone
Karthik (winner of event 5)
Mark Scellato
Sungwoo Tae (won event 11 and $47,160 --saw him at the registration window, but he hasn't taken his seat yet.)

Event 18: Underway

$400 + $50 Deep Stack Semi-Turbo NLH

Today's other main event is the $400 Deep Stack Semi-Turbo No Limit event.

Players began with 25,000 chips and 15 minute levels.

Starting with level 16, the duration increases to 30 minutes.

This is a one day event, so they'll play all night until a winner is determined.

Level 1 blinds are 25/50.  Shuffle Up & Deal!

Championship Event - Day 2 Seat Assignments

Borgata Spring Poker Open
$2500 + $200 Championship No Limit Hold'em
April 15 - 19, 2012

Entries: 520
Total Buy-In:  $1,300,000

START OF DAY 2 SEAT ASSIGNMENTS & CHIP COUNTS:
T01 | S01 - DAVID INSELBERG:  67,700

T01 | S02 - MARK VANDERLOO:  54,900

T01 | S03 - DANIEL CURRIE:  209,400

T01 | S04 - BRANDON HALL:  53,800

T01 | S05 - ANTHONY CARUSO:  45,200

T01 | S06 - JEFFREY WICKER:  41,800

T01 | S07 - ALEX SMITH:  89,200

T01 | S08 - OFIR MOR:  42,100

T01 | S09 - MICHAEL WOLF:  54,900

T02 | S01 - RAYMOND FERRETTI:  80,300

T02 | S02 - PETER IPPOLITO:  27,100

T02 | S03 - BRIAN BALLENTINE:  95,400

T02 | S04 - ANGEL GONZALEZ:  64,200

T02 | S05 - CLIFF JOSEPHY:  112,600

T02 | S06 - ROBERT HWANG:  54,800

T02 | S07 - ERIC LADNY:  158,600

T02 | S08 - ANDREW KLEIN:  73,500

T02 | S09 - LAWRENCE DIGIOVANNA:  28,700

T03 | S01 - JOSEPH OPIE:  33,500

T03 | S02 - MICHAEL MONTER:  31,900

T03 | S03 - CORY BATH:  25,000

T03 | S04 - STEVEN SAKLAD:  241,900

T03 | S05 - MORGAN LITWIN:  145,300

T03 | S06 - ELAN BRANAS:  91,300

T03 | S07 - STEVEN DANNENMANN:  69,000

T03 | S08 - MICHAEL SICA:  61,300

T03 | S09 - ORSON YOUNG:  135,900

T04 | S01 - JERRY PAYNE:  124,800

T04 | S02 - CHRISTOPHER WALKER:  23,000

T04 | S03 - BRETT RICHEY:  33,100

T04 | S04 - VINCENT RICCIARDI:  49,300

T04 | S05 - MATTHEW COHEN:  7,300

T04 | S06 - CAMERON CORNELL:  105,300

T04 | S07 - ERIC MILLER:  43,800

T04 | S08 - WOOYANG LIN:  92,900

T04 | S09 - ADAM AGAEV:  48,700

T05 | S01 - JOSEPH PRIMAVERA:  77,600

T05 | S02 - TONY SINISHTAJ:  108,300

T05 | S03 - RUSSELL CRANE:  48,700

T05 | S04 - VYACHESLAV EYZEROVICH:  92,300

T05 | S05 - DAVID ZEITLIN:  20,100

T05 | S06 - MIGUEL BORRERO:  22,200

T05 | S07 - DOMINIC COLONNA:  21,100

T05 | S08 - WAZIR BAKSH:  61,900

T05 | S09 - DANIEL WACH:  37,600

April 17

TODAY'S EVENTS (THE SIGNATURE ROOM & POKER ROOM)
REGISTER IN POKER ROOM


11AM:  Event 18 - $400 + $50 Deep Stack Semi-Turbo NLH 

• Players start with 25,000 in tournament chips
• Levels 1-15: will last 15 minutes each | Levels 16+: will last 30 minutes each
• 1-Day event

12PM:  $2500 + $200 Championship No Limit Hold'em - Day 2

• Day 2 starts at 12PM in The Signature Room
• Day 2, 3, 4 Levels: will last 75 minutes each 
• 4-Day event
  

6 PM:  Event 43- $100 + $20 + $25 Green Chip Bounty NLH

• Players start with 12,000 in tournament chips 
• Levels will last 20 minutes each
• This is a Bounty tournament. Players must have their Bounty Chip clearly displayed on the table in order to remain active in tournament
• 1-Day event

Event 17: Day 1B End of Night Chips

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry)

Steve Saklad (Hartsdale, NY) - 241,900
Day 1B - Chip Leader

Place......Player.................Chip Count

1. Steve Saklad..................... 241,900
2. Shiraz Hasan................... 224,500
3. Nick Petrangelo............... 193,000
4. Brian Hak........................ 186,200
5. Omar Smeed.................... 179,300
6. Jonathan Benster............ 177,100
7. Louis Lazzinnaro............. 172,000
8. Nick Bennett.................... 159,509
9. Ruslan Dykshteyn............ 157,100
10. Phong "VIP" Nugyen...... 144,700
11. Larry Abrams................... 144,200
12. William Parker................ 138,700
13. Rob Anderson.................. 135,500
14. Brian England.................. 130,800
15. Rocco Luciano.................. 126,500
16. Roslyn Quarto................... 125,800
17. Ian Palomo........................ 125,700
18. Jerry Payne....................... 124,800
19. Francis Cipriano................ 124,600
20. Mike Meskin...................... 124,200
21. Neville Darrell.................... 119,000
22. Cliff Josephy....................... 112,600
23. Paul Spitzberg..................... 107,000
24. Zhu Yue............................... 105,800
25. Robert Aaronson................. 105,200
26. Ali Tabatabai....................... 104,100

As the tournament closed out for the day it was a battle between Shiraz Hasan and Steve Saklad but nobody knew it. We all thought Shiraz had the 3K locked up. Apparently at the buzzer Steve sneaked across the finish line with the win.

"I'm excited to be freerolling however realize we still have a long way to go for potentially a big payday" said Steve Saklab.

Check back after 9am for all 172 Player chip counts for those finishing today.

Tomorrow at noon in the Signature Room, 54 from Day 1A will combine with 172 from Day 1B giving us 226 total players.

Also check back after 9am for seat assignments.

Have a great night!

Event 17: Cathy Dever - Royal Flush

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry)

Cathy Dever - Royalty

Table 1 has been on fire. In the very first hand of the day someone there flopped quad two's.

Later in the day another Opponent flopped quads again.

And now Cathy Dever just got a royal flush. She was all smiles and the other players congratulated her on the hand.

Dever held Q♣ 10♣ and saw a flop of K♣ J♣ Q♥ .

Turn bricked out but the A♣ hit the river for the very rare Royal.

Cathy has 60,000 after betting 5,000 on the river and getting paid off.

Four more hands until the end of Level 10.

Event 17: Teach Gets Sabbatical

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry)

Ken "Teach" Aldridge (Pleasant Garden, NC) hits an early summer vacation after limping with JJ and getting caught by Brian Hak's 6-6.

Hak flops a set of sixes, goes all in, and is called by Aldridge.

"Hindsight is 20/20" says Teach who now regrets not shoving his 58,000 pre-flop.

Brian is now up to 185,000.

Looks like he's second in chips but still in striking distance for the 3K.

At the same table (13) is Richard Marshall (Raleigh, NC) and Gavin Smith.

Gavin won the last longer bet vs. Matt Stout and should make it to bag and tag time.

Event 17: No More Mo

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry)

Poker Pro - Maurice Hawkins (Coral Springs, FL) is pretty upset and rightfully so.

First Mike Borovetz cracked his KK holding 77 and now another Opponent (holding 6-9 off) cracked his KK again. Flop fell 6-6-8 sending Hawkins to the rail.

Maurice couldn't believe the player called his 10,000 pre-flop raise, especially since he only had another 50,000 behind.

Event 17: The Big Saklad

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry)

Steve Saklad (Hartsdale, NY) - 170,000

Steve Saklad (Hartsdale, NY) wins two big hands and jets up to being among the chip leaders.

In hand number 1 - Steve gets in with 2-3 suited and flops a wheel. Opponent came along for the ride after flopping a set of fives. Turn and river bricked out.

In hand number 2 - Steve shipped with KK and got called by J-9. Saklad had to sweat an open-ended draw on the flop. Table explained the pot as Steve collecting a 45,000 gift.

Steve became a poker pro four years ago and is looking to add to his career earnings with a top spot finish here in the Championship.

Event 17: Manh Down

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry) 

Manh Nguyen (Munhall, PA) moves his short stack all in on a flop of 9♥ 9♣ K♥ and Rob Shortway (St. Petersburg, FL) calls.

Nguyen: A♥ 2♥ (nut flush draw)
Shortway: 9♦ 6♦ (trip 9s)

Turn: 10♥ (Nguyen hits flush)

River: 6♥ (Shorway full house)

Nguyen only had 10k to start the hand and is out of the Borgata Poker Open Championship Event.

Less than 225 players remain on 17 tables in the Signature Room Eight tables, with eight more in the Poker Room.  The average stack is 50k (83 BB) with blinds at 300/600, 75 ante.

Event 17: Boro-Sets

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry)

Michael Borovets (Pittsburgh, PA) more than doubles up after cracking KK with 77 after spiking a 7 on the flop. Thanks to the tournament saving set, he's got North of 100,000.

"Finally some good luck" exclaims Mike after hitting his man. He also knocked out a player holding A-8.

Board ran: 3-2-7-Q-4.

Also at Table 2 is Paul Spitzberg (Tenafly, NJ) who supports a friend and helps out in a poker venture called POSITION POKER. Paul is ready for on-line poker to return so he can implement his new gaming device/venture.

Like Mike, Paul is also right around 100,000. He only had KK once and with that one good hand was able to somehow sustain his stack.

Event 17: Bennett Busts Two

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry) 

Nick Bennett (Bennington, VT) turns a straight with Q 10 and gets his opponent to call of his remaining chips for a 120k chip pot.  Two hands later Bennett takes out a short stack with KJ vs K9 and now has 166k.

"I guess all you have to do is stop playing poker for six months," says the recent college graduate, who quit his job a week ago to play poker.

After graduating from Castleton State College of Vermont, Bennett tried working, but figured he'd put his mathematics degree to work at the poker tables.

Event 17: Ruslan Radar

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry)

Dykshteyn Ruslan (Brooklyn, NY) - 115,000

Dykshteyn looks around the room with his eye on the other big stacks. He's ready to make a push and take down the 3K bonus at the end of the night.

When asked about it Ruslan responded with a smile, "I'm trying".

26 tables remain. Ave. chips 48,076

Kathy Liebert was getting short. She shoved with K-Q and was called by A-10.

Board ran clean and Liebert calls it a night.

Event 17: Chip Leader

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry)

 Middletown Man with Middle Pair

Shiraz Hasan (Middletown, DE) is the big stack with 169k and is 30k clear of the next closest player. He says his biggest pot came when he and his opponent both thought the other was on a flush draw.

Hasan makes a 45k river bet and the opponent tank calls. Hasan's middle pair is best against bottom pair and he takes down a 100k+ pot.

Hasan, who only has one recorded tournament cash for $4,000 at Borgata, is well aware of the $3,000 bonus for the end of night Day 1B chip leader.

Event 17: Stout vs. Smith

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry)

Poker Pros Matt Stout and Gavin Smith just made a last longer bet since both have about the same amount in chips.

Gavin's table broke up so he gets a new zipcode.

Matt has 21,600 after winning a couple hands and tripling up. After the scoop he sounds off, "One more and we call it a winning street" quoting the classic movie "Major League".

Gavin has 19,500 and is confident he's got plenty to do some damage.

Event 17: Blinds Up, Dwyte Down

$2500 + $200 Championship NLH Double Play (Re-Entry) 

Dwyte Pilgrim, the 2010 Borgata Poker Open Champion, is out after his opponent gets him twice.  First the player turns a set against DP's top two pairs. 

A short time later Pilgrim's all in with 99 against the players AK.  DP loses the races, is on the rail, and won't be around to see level 9 (300/600, 75 ante) which is underway.