We're back for day two of the World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open main event at the Borgata Casino Hotel & Spa in lovely Atlantic City, New Jersey.Yesterday, 381 players forked over $10,000 each for a shot at the main event championship and a 2006 Escalade. First place will win over $1.1 million and the top 75 players will win prize money. There are 165 players remaining looking to survive day two.
Cliff "Johnny Bax" Josephy ended the first day as the chipleader. There are plenty of pros still in the mix including Eric Seidel, David Williams, Joe Sebok, Nick Frangos, Chris Fargis, The Grinder, Freddy Deeb, Barry Greenstein, Action Bob Hwang, Steve Dannemann, Scotty Nguyen, Andy Black, Bill Edler, Ted Forrest, Matt Hilger, Matt Matros, Dan Alspach, Joanne Liu, Ammon Filippi, John D'Agostino, Alan Giehring, Brian Haveson, Denis Ethier, Carlos Mortensen, Syracuse Chris, Tony Cousineau, Gavin Smith, Jean-Robert Bellande, Matt Glantz, and Kenna James.
Event #2 winner Micahel Hickman from Media, PA is 3rd in chips.
Notable eliminations from Day 1 included Wayne Stock, Victor Ramdin, Daniel Negreanu, John Phan, Kathy Liebert, Antonio Tarver, Al Ardebili, John Gale, Olga Varkonyi, Pat White, Layne Flack, David Oppenheim, Jerry Burgess, Manny Minaya, Russel Rosenblum, Arnold Spee, Carlos Zambrano, Daniel Shiff, John Phan, Bruce Yamron, Eric Froehlich, Philippe Rouas, James Van Alstyne, Massoud Nikjouian, James Salters, Nenad Medic, Tom Sipes, Roland Israelashvili, Arthur Azen, Frank Kassela, James English, Larry "Zekeness" Lawson, Stephen Benton, Chip Jett, Bill Gazes, Paul Darden, Phil Ivey, Mike Gracz, Laura Fink, Emad Alabsi, Dan Shak, Padraig Parkinson, Fritz Stoner, Chris Bell, Eric Weiner, Scott Neuman, William Failla, Chad Brown, David Harris, Neal Gersony, Badih Bounabura, David The Dragon Pham, Matthew Hoagland, Josh Arieh, Steve Jacobs, Surinder Sumar, Amir Vahedi, Stephen Benton, Irv Gotti, David Levi, James Giordano, Allen Cunningham, and Dax Funderburk.
End of Day 1 Top 10 Chipcount:***** Live Blogging Updates *****
1 Cliff "Johnny Bax" Josephy $ 386,200
2 Joseph Miceli $ 179,700
3 Michael Hickman $ 174,900
4 Frank Vizza $ 147,800
5 John Cullen $ 137,000
6 Eric Seidel $ 130,300
7 Eugene Todd $ 126,300
8 Tom Martelli $ 123,300
9 Feming Chan $ 122,900
10 Alex Cameron $ 122,100
The Rest of the Field:
11 Robert Brobyn $ 119,600
12 James Fletcher $ 117,300
13 David Lewis $ 111,100
14 David Williams $ 111,000
15 Marc Nantais $ 110,600
16 Paul Snead $ 109,700
17 John Duthie $ 107,600
18 Kenny Schuyler $ 102,700
19 Ylon Schwartz $ 101,100
20 Manny Syragakis $ 95,600
21 Billy Kaczynski $ 93,700
22 Michael Esposito $ 90,900
23 Alan Schriw $ 90,800
24 Rich Aquino $ 90,800
25 Louise Francoeur $ 90,500
26 Joe Sebok $ 90,200
27 Lee Biars $ 90,200
28 Erick Lindgren $ 90,200
29 Sean Armstrong $ 89,800
30 Marc Lunenfeld $ 87,000
31 Nik Frangos $ 86,500
32 Andy Schwartz $ 85,500
33 Vinod Vangimalla $ 81,400
34 Glen Theobald $ 80,500
35 Jonathan Zuchowski $ 77,700
36 Robert Mizrachi $ 76,400
37 Greg Fondacaro $ 76,100
38 Freddy Deeb $ 76,100
39 Barry Berger $ 75,800
40 Barry Greenstein $ 75,700
41 Robert Hwang $ 74,800
42 Scott Paston $ 74,600
43 Michael Goodman $ 73,100
44 Steven Dannenmann $ 72,500
45 Jim Lester $ 72,000
46 Ronald Schiffman $ 71,400
47 Dane Jorgensen $ 71,100
48 Jeff King $ 70,800
49 Scotty Nguyen $ 67,500
50 Richard Murnick $ 66,300
51 John Spadavecchia $ 65,700
52 Andrew Black $ 64,800
53 Lin Poo Wang $ 64,700
54 Al Laughing $ 64,400
55 Chris Fargis $ 64,000
56 Nick Feoli $ 63,400
57 Bill Edler $ 62,900
58 Ted Forrest $ 62,400
59 Alex Todd $ 61,500
60 Sorin Cristea $ 61,400
61 Brian Mizok $ 61,000
62 Tim Andrers $ 59,800
63 Matthew Hilger $ 59,600
64 Casey Kastle $ 59,600
65 Ronnie Cauthen $ 59,200
66 Will Tong $ 59,100
67 Mark Weber $ 58,700
68 Matt Wolf $ 58,000
69 Don Mullis $ 57,800
70 Matt Matros $ 57,700
71 Dan Yanofski $ 57,600
72 Eric Bankoff $ 56,900
73 Loukas Michael $ 56,800
74 Luke Neely $ 56,300
75 Charlie Kahikakis $ 56,200
76 Dan Alspach $ 55,300
77 Vlad Mezhezitsky Jr $ 54,400
78 Amnon Filippi $ 53,800
79 Nick Grudzlen $ 53,600
80 Leonard Green $ 53,500
81 John D'Agostino $ 50,000
82 Alan Goehring $ 50,000
83 Mark Duma $ 50,000
84 Anthony Salerno $ 49,400
85 Troy O'Neal $ 49,100
86 Michael Mizrachi $ 48,800
87 Beth Shak $ 48,700
88 Vince Palma $ 47,200
89 Sam Silverman $ 45,600
90 Curt Kohlberg $ 45,000
91 Mark Schaech $ 45,000
92 Tex Barch $ 44,400
93 John Finkel $ 44,200
94 Josh Spiegelman $ 43,700
95 Pete Skyllas $ 43,500
96 Brian Haveson $ 43,400
97 Ari Abramowitz $ 42,800
98 Richard Tatalovich $ 42,600
99 Doug Carli $ 42,000
100 Richard Carolan $ 42,000
101 John McCann $ 41,500
102 Alex Jacob $ 41,000
103 Mike May $ 40,900
104 Allen Kessler $ 40,800
105 Sanjay Dandya $ 40,600
106 Mike Sica $ 38,700
107 Alex Magor $ 38,500
108 Dennis Ethier $ 38,300
109 Carlos Mortensen $ 38,200
110 Richard Kirsch $ 37,400
111 Eric Fessler $ 36,100
112 Nunzio Bisking Jr $ 35,600
113 Greg Cash $ 35,500
114 Michael Boreoretz $ 35,300
115 Syracuse Chris Tsiprailidis $ 34,800
116 Kerry Andreae $ 34,600
117 John Juanda $ 33,800
118 Jim Wheatley $ 33,600
119 Guiseffe Coffi $ 33,400
120 Alfred Fernandez $ 33,100
121 Vlad Yanovsky $ 32,800
122 Peter Feldman $ 32,500
123 Pete Giordano $ 32,500
124 Ross Mallor $ 31,900
125 Peter Delamos $ 31,300
126 Bruce Spicer $ 31,300
127 Joanne Liu $ 30,400
128 George Anthony $ 29,900
129 Michael Tait $ 29,200
130 Dennis January $ 29,000
131 Thomas Koral $ 28,500
132 Stuart Patterson $ 28,000
133 Mike Maler $ 27,200
134 Jonathan Honis $ 25,900
135 Joey Brooks $ 25,800
136 Rep Porter $ 25,800
137 Albert Muir $ 25,600
138 Jeremy Brown $ 24,700
139 Tony Cousineau $ 23,900
140 Richard Dabal $ 23,400
141 Thomas Antonopoulos $ 21,800
142 Stephen Leveson $ 21,700
143 Gavin Smith $ 21,200
144 Steve Brecher $ 21,000
145 Lou Esposito $ 20,600
146 Jean-Robert Bellande $ 20,300
147 Matt Glantz $ 19,200
148 V.P. Martin $ 19,100
149 Herbert Chang $ 18,500
150 Vincent Aloi $ 17,800
151 Henry Olszewski $ 16,100
152 Ken Goldin $ 15,900
153 Richard Cohen $ 15,000
154 Rich Forte $ 14,700
155 Fabrizio Birona $ 14,000
156 Chris Reslock $ 13,900
157 Kenna James $ 13,900
158 Adam White $ 12,800
159 Tom Dobrilovic $ 12,600
160 Dean Schultz $ 10,400
161 Jorge Arias $ 9,300
162 Lisa Pickell $ 8,300
163 Joe Boat Wright $ 6,700
164 Robert Weitzner $ 6,500
11:03am... Main Event update: Players are seated and they are opening up their bags. Action will begin shortly.
11:08am... Main Event update: Cards are in the air. We're on Level 9. Blinds are $600/1200 with a $200 ante.
Action Bob Hwang
11:15am... Main Event update: Lisa Pickell is out.
11:30am... Main Event update: Several players have already been busted. At Chris Fargis' table, three players were eliminated in three hands.
Recent Eliminations:
Barry Greenstein
Richard Cohen
Ari Abramowitz
Matt Glantz
Alfred Fernandez
Lisa Pickell
Thomas Antonopoulos
Henry Olszewski
Allen Kessler
Robert Brobyn
Joe Sebok ponders a call
11:50am... Main Event update: Today's action features nine-handed tables. There are 16 tables left. Approximately 143 players remain.
12:05pm... Main Event update: Gavin Smith is out when his 7-7 ran into K-K. Nicky Frangos ran into John Juanda's K-K.
Recent Bustouts:12:45pm... Main Event update: 116 players left on 13 tables. That information comes straight from the tournament director Tab Duchteau. Chris Fargis busted Fabrizio Birona when he flopped a straight with 5-3s. Action Bob doubled up against Dan Alspach when his A-K held up against Alspach's 9-9. Robert Mizrachi was busted by Tex Barch.
Gavin Smith
Jean-Robert Bellande
Nick Frangos
Alex Jacob
Thomas Koral
Rep Porter
Recent Eliminations:
Doug Carli
Freddy Deeb
Tim Anders
Robert Mizrachi
Kenna James
"My Main Man" Freddy Deeb
1:30pm... Main Event update: 106 players on 12 tables. Chris Fargis' took a hit. David Williams was busted when he ran into A-A. Matt Matros ran into an overpair and was busted.
Recent Eliminations:
Carlos Mortensen
Michael Borovetz
David Williams
Matt Matros
Andy Black
Steve Dannemann
2:10pm... Main Event update: Players are returning from a break. We're on Level 11. Blinds are $1K/2K with 300 blinds. 102 left on 12 tables. Chris Fargis has 86K. Cliff Josephy has almost 400K. Action Bob has about 60K.
2:30pm... Main Event update: Steve Brecher has been eliminated.
2:50pm... Main Event update: Joanne Lui was busted when her K-J ran into J-J.
Recent Eliminations:
Steve Brecher
Luke Nealy
Vlad Yanofsky
Alex Todd
Joanne Liu
The stats
3:15pm... 10 tables left. 90 players remain.
Tex Barch stares down an opponent.
3:25pm.... Main Event update: Steve Dannemann was just eliminated when his A-Q lost to Mike Maler's J-10. Maler rivered a straight. Andy Black has $130K.
3:30pm... Event #10 $500 NL update: There's one final event that began today. 457 players entered that event.
3:32pm... Main Event update: Players are on a 15 minute break. Action Bob Hwang was busted by Richard Kirsh when his A-K lost to J-8o. On a board of 6d-9d-8s-2d, Action Bob moved all in for almost 40K. His opponent ended up calling with J-8o. Action Bob had Big Slick and the King of diamonds. The river was an 8 and Action Bob was sent to the rail.
4:00pm... Main Event update: Cliff Josephy has almost 400K, while Erick Lindgren is in the top 5 chips with over 320K. Chris Fargis lost a big pot when his Big Slick lost a race to Jorge Arias' Q-Q.
Recent Eliminations:4:10pm... Main Event update: There's a Miss America sighting here in the ballroom! The place was buzzing for several minutes as she walked around and took photos with everyone and visited the players. Stay tuned for photos of Jennifer Berry from Frank Bellocchio. 79 players remaining.
Alan Goehring
Robert Brobyn
Steve Dannenmann
Beth Shak
Sam Silverman
Casey Kastle
Tex Barch
Miss America visits the tournament
4:35pm... Main Event update: 77 players. Chris Fargis has les than 40K. Andy Black has 130K. John Duthie has 180K. Louise Francouer has 110K. Joe Sebok has 92K. Mark Nantis took over the chiplead from Cliff Josephy.
John D'Agostino
Louise Francouer
4:56pm... Main Event update: Michael Hickman was just busted along with Mark Puma. One more until the bubble. Chris Fargis was on the brink of elimination. He was all in preflop with A-K against Tommy Wang's K-K. He riverd an ace to double up and stay alive.
5:00pm... Main Event update: Players are on a 15 minute break. 76 left. Bubble Time. Vinod Vangimalla is still in with 60K or so.
5:30pm... Main Event update: Still on the bubble on the verge of busting. John D'Agostino has run up his stack to over 420K.
5:37pm... Main Event update: Andy Black dropped the Hammer!! Black raised with 7-2o. No one called his raise and he flipped over his hand. "I wanted to get called," he said. "I want to win a pot with 7-2!"
5:52pm... Main Event update: Ted Forrest has been eliminated on the bubble by Eugene Todd. As Bubble Boy, the Borgata will be buying him into the 2006 September Borgata Open. Everyone left will be making the money.
6:10pm... Main Event update: Chris Fargis is out.
Recent Eliminations (the following players won $12,935) :6:35pm... Main event update: 63 players remaining. It's all over, baby. Scotty Nguyen was elimianted in 66th place when he missed a nut flush draw with Ah-8h. He lost to J-J.
75. Vinod Vangimalla (Silver Springs, MD)
74. Mark Webber (Sickerville, NJ)
73. Chris Fargis (Brooklyn, NY)
72. Andrew Schwartz (Boca Raton, FL)
71. Dean Schultz (Lewis Center, OH)
70. Ylon Schwart (Brooklyn, NY)
69. John Cullen Farmingdale, NJ)
68. Ron Schiffmani (Cherry Hill, NJ)
67. Daniel Yanofski (West Orange, NJ)
66. Scotty Nguyen (Las Vegas, NV)
65. Jonathan Zuckowski (Jupiter, Florida)
64. Nick Grudien (Mt. Vernon, NY)
7:00pm.... Main event update: A few more bustouts as we approach dinner time. John D'Agostino is still in the lead. Andy Black lost a hand with the Hammer! With 7-2 he flopped bottom pair and called Don Mullis' all in bet. Mullis had Q-J and totally missed the flop. He turned a Jack to double through Andy Black.
Recent Eliminations (All players won $12,935):7:15pm... Main Event update: 59 left. Players are on a dinner break.
63. Mark Lurenfeld (Virginia Beach, VA)
62. Thomas Martelli (Sewell, NJ)
61. Alexander Magor (Woodmere, NY)
60. Frank Vizza (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Top 20 Chipcount:8:10pm... Main Event update: We're back from dinner. We're on Level 14. Blinds are $2K/4K with a $500 ante.
1 John D'Agostino 410K
2 Alan Schein 410K
3 James Fletcher 400K
4 Cliff Josephy 394K
5 Marc Nantais 365K
6 Eugene Todd 360K
7 Will Tong 355K
8 Bill Edler 345K
9 Tony Salerno 290K
10 Denis Ethier 290K
11 Michael Mizrachi 240K
12 Erick Lindgren 210K
13 Matt Hilger 210K
14 John Duthie 210K
15 Mike Goodman 195K
16 Bill Kaczynski 180K
17 Jim Lester 170K
18 Erik Seidel 168K
19 Dane Jorgensen 155K
20 Curt Kohlberg 144K
8:20pm... Main Event update: Tommy Wang is out in 59th.
8:30pm... Main Event update: Andy Black is out in 58th place. His A-Q ran into Erik Seidel's A-K. Padraig Parkison was on the rail sweating Andy and rooting him on. When Andy busted, he looked upset.
Padraig: "Cheer up. Nobody died. How much did you win?"8:40pm... Main Event update: Feming Chan was just eliminated in 57th place when he ran into Cliff Josephy's A-A. A few hands before, Peter Fedlman doubled up against Cliff Josephy when his pocket eights held up againt Josephy's K-J.
Andy: "Twelve thousand."
Padraig: "Not bad for a day of work. That's more than Santa Claus makes."
8:45pm... Main Event update: Joe Sebok was busted in 56th place when his A-Q lost to Q-Q.
9:15pm... Main Event update: 50 players left. The bustouts are coming quick. Bill Edler and James Fletcher are the chipleaders. Fletcher has over 500K.
Recent Eliminations (All players won $12,935):9:20pm... Main Event update: 47 players remaining. Robert Weitzner, Richard Aquinto, and Curt Kohlberg are out. The players are on a break.
59. Tommy Wang (White Plains, NY)
58. Andy Black (Dublin, Ireland)
57. Feming Chan (Cranbury, NY)
56. Joe Sebok (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA)
55. Emmanuel Syragakis (Montreal, Canada)
54. Greg Fondacaro (Sewell, NJ)
53. Nick Feoli (Richboro, PA)
52. Scott Paston (Old Westbury, NY)
51. Richard Tatatlovich (Scottsdale, AZ)
9:35pm... Main Event update: Players are back from their break. We're on Level 15. The blinds are $3K/6K with a $500 ante. Johhny Bax is back in the chiplead! He cracked A-A with 5-7o.
Top 5 Chipcounts:9:50pm... Main Event update: Bill Edler busted James Fletcher. Albert Muir is also out.
1. Cliff Josephy $600K
2. Will Tong $494K
3. Bill Edler $490K
4. James Fletcher $430K
5. Dane Jorgensen $420K
Recent Eliminations:
50. Robert Weitzner (New York, NY) $14,783
49. Richard Aquino (Kearny, NJ) $14,783
48. Curt Kohlberg (Weston, MA) $14,783
Recent Bustouts:10:20pm... Main Event update: Erick Lindgren scooped a monster pot with a Royal flush! When he hit the Royal, he said he'd be happy to wear a Borgata hat. 41 left.
47. Albert Muir (Ansonia, CT) $14,783
46. James Fletcher (Carney, MD) $14,783
Recent Eliminations:10:40pm... Main Event update: Down to 41 players. Avergae stack is 232K.
45. Mark Schaech (Eldridge, MD) $14,783
44. Rich Murnick (Montclair, NJ) $14,783
43. Jeff King (Colchester, CT) $14,783
42. Tony Solerno (Howell, NJ) $14,783
10:45pm... Main Event update: John Duthie doubled up with A-Qs vs. Alan Schein's J-9s. Pete Skyllas busted two guys in one hand; Brian Haveson and Bill Kaczynski. 39 players left. Players are on a break.
Recent Eliminations:11:00pm... Main Event update: Still down to 39 players. John D'Agostino is the chipleader withover $800K
41. Brian Haveson (Newtown, PA) $14,783
40. Bill Kaczynski (Scotch Plains, NJ) $14,783
Top 10 Chipcounts:11:11pm... Main Event update: We're on Level 16 with the blinds at $4K/$8K and a $1K ante. This will be the last level of play tonight.
1. John D'Agostino $825K
2. Bill Edler $580K
3. Cliff Josephy $560K
4. Kenny Schuyler $555K
5. Dane Jorgensen $530K
6. John Duthie $520K
7. Erick Lindgren $450K
8. Pete Skyllas $385K
9. Denis Ethier $350K
10. Will Tong $340K
Notable Chipcounts:
Louise Francoeur $270K
The Grinder $240K
Peter Feldman $220K
Matt Hilger $200K
Amnon Filippi $175K
Erik Seidel $100K
Chris Reslock $60K
John Juanda $50K
11:28pm... Main Event update: We're down to 36 players.
Recent Bustouts:11:35pm... Main Event update: We're down to 33. Play is done for tonight. We'll resume play at Noon on Tuesday. John D'Agostino is the chipleader with almost $1M. The average stack $288,636.
39. Sean Armstrong (Egg Harbor, NJ) $14,783
38. Michael Esposito (Seaford, NY) $14,783
37. Alan Schein (N. Miami, FL) $14,783
Recent Bustouts:
36. Michael Lewis (Westin, CT) $14,783
35. John Juanda (Las Vegas, NV) $14,783
34. Matt Hilger (Atlanta, GA) $14,783
End of Day 2 Chipcounts:
1. John D'Agostino $988K
2. Kenny Schuyler $734K
3. Cliff Josephy $573K
4. Bill Edler $529K
5. Dane Jorgensen $519K
6. Greg Cash $470K
7. John Duthie $465K
8. Michael Mizrachi $414K
9. Erick Lindgren $412K
10. Louise Francoeur $402K
11. Mike Goodman $374K
12. Pete Skyllas $370K
13. Will Tong $337K
14. Ronnie Cauthen $317K
15. Richard Kirsch $297K
16. Eugene Todd $235K
17. Denis Ethier $223K
18. Josh Spiegelman $219K
19. Dennis January $190K
20. Don Mullis $188K
21. Amnon Filippi $175K
22. Joseph Miceli $171K
23. Peter Feldman $170K
24. Mike Sica $163K
25. Marc Nantais $158K
26. Leonard Green $145K
27. Jim Lester $135K
28. Richard Dabal $118K
29. Stuart Patterson $94K
30. Erik Seidel $79K
31. Chris Reslock $78K
32. Vlad Mezheritsky, Jr. $76K
33. Jorge Arias $47K
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