Borgata Winter Poker Open 2020 Results
Finished Events | Winner | Winning Hand | Prize | Runner-up | Losing Hand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event #25: $300 Deepest Stack NLH | Daniel Gordon | $17,838 | Ryan Dodd | ||
| Event #24: $440 Black Chip Bounty | Vladimir Vasilyev | a ♠4 ♠ | $13,560 | Cheng Xu | k ♣2 ♣ |
| Event #23: $300 Big Wednesday | Jean Gaspard | k ♥7 ♣ | $47,042 | Nikolaos Platis | j ♣9 ♠ |
| Event #22: $5,100 High Roller | Jonathan Dokler | a ♠j ♣ | $100,829 | Qi Hu | 6 ♠6 ♥ |
| Event #21: $230 Deepstack | Peter Zarriello | 7 ♦5 ♠ | $13,420 | Benjamin Datsko | |
| $3,500 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship | |||||
| Event #19: $220 Charity Series of Poker | |||||
| Event #18: $1,560 Purple Chip Bounty | Alberto Sabogali | j ♠10 ♣ | $46,929 | Fikret Kovac | q ♣10 ♦ |
| Event #17: $3,125 Heads-Up NLH | Qi Hu | j ♠j ♥ | $67,512 | Matthew Emmel | a ♦4 ♦ |
| Event #16: $400 Saturday Series Deepstack | Peter Sennon | $55,100 | Rafael Reis | ||
| Event #15: $560 Super Survivor | |||||
| Event #14: $1,090 Six Max NLH | Will Givens | a ♣2 ♥ | $91,017 | Anthony Zinno | 7 ♦6 ♦ |
| Event #13: $400 Almighty Stack | Kareem Marshall | 8 ♥6 ♦ | $195,903 | Ray Medlin Sr | 9 ♦5 ♠ |
| Event #12: $340 OE H/L 8B | Federico Ottenio | $6,400 | John Reiss | ||
| Event #11: $560 Super Survivor | |||||
| Event #10: $300 Deepest Stack | Ryan Tamanini | a ♥9 ♦ | $64,032 | Adam Harrow | a ♣4 ♣ |
| Event #9: $230 Pot-Limit Omaha | Todd Rodenborn | q ♠q ♦5 ♥3 ♥ | $6,927 | Franklin Moody | q ♣9 ♠9 ♣2 ♠ |
| Event #8: $230 Deeper Stack | Frank Simone | a ♠j ♥ | $18,121 | Stephen Silverman | 9 ♣7 ♣ |
| Event #7: $340 Seniors | Faisal Siddiqui | $10,500 | Dominick Sannino | ||
| Event #6: $560 Super Survivor | |||||
| Event #5: $340 H.O.S.E. | Roland Israelashvili | $5,392 | Glenn Engelbert | ||
| Event #4: $400 Saturday Series Deepstack | Men Nguyen | $50,000 | Alex Luxenburg | ||
| Event #3: $500 Deepstack Black Chip Bounty | Timothy Rutherford | q ♥7 ♣ | $86,118 | Louis Pelletteri | j ♠9 ♠ |
| Event #2: $450 Survivor NLH | |||||
| Event #1: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off | Zarko Mandic | $342,967 | Ricardo Eyzaguirre |
Update: The final table of the World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship was held as scheduled March 13th at the Luxor HyperX Esports Arena. 1st Place – Vinicius ‘Viny’ Lima Vinicius ‘Viny’ Lima had the biggest climb of the final six players, starting play at the bottom of the chip counts. The 2020 Borgata Winter Poker Open is now over. Visit the Official Borgata Winter Poker Open Blog for full coverage of the tournament including event recaps, image galleries, player interviews and more. Stay in the know. For poker updates, follow us on: BorgataPoker Twitter. For Borgata Poker schedules and promotions, visit theborgata.com. Casino: Casino Royale, Maho Bay, St. Maarten Buy-in: $3,200 + $300 5-Day Event: November 3–7, 2014 Number of Entries: 118 Total Prize Pool: $366,272 Number of Payouts: 15.
The final table is set for the World PokerTour’s stop at the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open. There’s a chance at somehistory as Brian Altman looks for his third ever WPT title, but he’ll have twoobstacles to that achievement. One is the chip leader, Veerab Zakarian, and theother four men at the final table; the second would be the delayed final tableuntil April 1.
28 Men and a Dream
Borgata Winter Poker Open 2020 Results
The final 28 players in the WPT Borgata WinterPoker Open settled into their chairs on Friday, all with the dream of a WPTchampionship dancing in their heads. Leading the way, as he had been for thepast two days, was Patrick Serda, who sat on a healthy chip lead with his 6.26million chips. Zakarian was in second at the start of the action, holding 4.075million in chips, while Altman held the third place slot on the leaderboard.
The trio was the focus of the railbirds,primarily because they weren’t sitting back and playing passively. Serda andAltman were on the same table to start the day and they weren’t afraid ofmixing it up with each other. They would clash in the early going, with each takinga hand, but the end results were they basically treaded water with their chips.Serda would find some chips in knocking out Joey Galazzo in 25thplace, however, and his stack expanded over the eight million mark.
Zakarian, meanwhile, was having some troublesgetting the engines started. He would drop down to around two million in chipsbefore eliminating Sam Taylor in 19th place. In the hand, Zakariandangerously played a pocket pair of sevens with a draw at a flush againstTaylor’s two over cards (A-10), straight draw and bigger flush draw on a 9-4-3-5flop and turn. Needing an Ace, ten, deuce or any club to take the hand, Taylorinstead saw an eight hit the river and end his tournament, with Zakarianrocketing up to 4.465 million in chips.
Zakarian Goes on the Attack
With three six-handed tables, the actionwas frenetic. Zakarian, after fading the world against Taylor, went on theattack and found Serda as his next victim. On a 9-7-2-7-J board, Zakarian wasable to get a two million chip call from Serda and turned up a pocket pair ofJacks for the rivered full house. Serda didn’t even bother to show his cards,instead shipping a massive pot and the chip lead over to Zakarian.
Zakarian continued to abuse Serda, pickingup a nut flush against Serda’s King high flush to chop some more chips fromSerda’s stack. Serda was probably quite happy when, after the elimination ofJesus Martinez in 17th place, the redraw separated him fromZakarian. The problem was that the table redraw was massively slanted.
On one table, Serda only had Brandon Hall(3.7 million) to look up at on his patch of felt. On the other, however, Zakarian(with 10 million plus in chips), Bin Weng (six million) and James Anderson (5.7million) all had more chips than Serda’s table combined. This imbalance in theredraw would have an effect on the runup to the final table.
Of the seven eliminations to get to theunofficial nine-handed final table, six of them came from the Serda table, includingthe elimination of Serda himself. After doubling up Altman (whose pocket Jackscaught a set on the river against Serda’s flopped pair of eights), Serda woulddepart after clashing again against Altman. On a 9-4-3-9-Q board, Serda check-calledall in a bet from Altman and saw Altman turn up A-9 for trips; Serda could onlymuster a K-Q for the lesser rivered pair of Queens and left in 10thplace.
After a quick redraw with nine remaining,Altman held a slight lead over Zakarian, but that would change rather quickly.Zakarian would eliminate Alex Queen in ninth place in a cooler of a hand,Zakarian’s pocket Kings against Queen’s…well, pocket Queens…on a ten-highboard. Altman would waver at the unofficial final table, dropping as low as fourmillion chips before knocking out Peter Vitantonio in seventh to get somehealth back and end the tournament until April.
1. Veerab Zakarian, 11.99 million
2. James Anderson, 10.04 million
3. Brian Altman, 9.865 million
4. Bin Weng, 8.89 million
5. Andrew Hanna, 6.73 million
6. Nathan Russler, 3.99 million
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The players will have some time to reflect on their play and perhaps plot some strategies for the future. The WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open is one of a triumvirate of tournaments that will be delayed until the end of March and played at the HyperX eSports Arena at the Luxor in Las Vegas. This shows the problem with these “delayed” events in that there’s some great drama here in Altman going for his third championship (and technically a back-to-back win, as he won the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open prior to the Borgata stop) and Zakarian’s run to his first major title. Alas, we’re going to have to wait until April 1 to see how it all plays out.