Below is a selection of photos from Event #13:
2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open
Borgata Winter Poker Open Side Events
Day 6 Completed
The remaining four players have agree to a deal, and play is done for the night. Trevor Deeter, Toby Kasser, Bryan Rosengarten and Mohamed Eid will have found an agreeable way to split $43,142. The players were working with extremely short stacks, as the big blind was 160,000, meaning only about 60 total big blinds were in play.
Michael Tauman topped a field of 327 to win a $34,130 first-place prize here in the $450 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold'em at Borgata Winter Poker Open. He defeated a final table that included last year's Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event winner Andy Hwang, who finished third. Tauman cracked the {a-}{a-} of Mark Rebuck heads up to finish a heads-up match that lasted less than 30 minutes.
Bryan Rosengarten pushed all in from the button, and Simon Taberham called from the big blind. Rosengarten's outran Taberham's when the board came . Taberham was left with a few big blinds.
He got the last of his chips in from the small blind after action folded to him, and Mohamed Eid called.
Eid:
Taberham:
"There it is," Toby Kasser said as the flop came .
"There it's not," he said when the turned.
"There it is again," he said when the river gave Eid two pair.
Player | Stack |
---|---|
Bryan Rosengarten | 875,000 |
Toby Kasser | 2,650,000 |
Simon Taberham | 1,275,000 |
Mohamed Eid | 3,100,000 |
Trevor Deeter | 1,550,000 |
Brian Adragua shoved with from the cutoff, and Toby Kasser shipped over the top with from the button. The board came , and Kasser eliminated his opponent.
Action folded to Lauren Kepple's button, and she shipped all in for 985,000. Mohamed Eid made the call from the big blind.
Eid:
Kipple:
The flop came , giving Kipple a flush draw. A red card arrived on the turn, but it was the , no help to Kepple. The fell on the river, and the last woman in the field headed for the payout desk.
Carless Boatwright got all in from the big blind against Mohamed Eid on the button.
Boatwright:
Eid:
Nines weren't as good to Boatwright this time, as the board ran out . The man known as "G.I. Joe" has been honorably discharged from the tournament.
Blinds just went up to 60,000-120,000 with a 20,000 ante. Every stack at the table appears to be significantly below 20 big blinds, so players are under significant pressure to gain chips.
Clint Holes ran into the of Mohamed Eid, and he was eliminated in ninth place.