Borgata Winter Poker Open Results

11/19/2019

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Borgata Winter Poker Open 2019 Results
Borgata Winter Poker Open Results
Borgata Winter Poker Open
Borgata Winter Poker Open 2019

The 2019 Borgata Winter Poker Open is currently taking place out in New Jersey. While the annual festival will culminate with the $3,500 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event, it kicked off this past weekend with Event #1: $600 DeepStack NLH, a tournament that featured a $2 million guarantee.

888 poker android app free download. With a monster 5,130 entrants, a $2.7 million prize pool was created. After numerous starting flights and three official days of play, Pascal Zaklama came out on top after a three-way deal, taking the official win despite splitting prize money evenly with another (anonymous) player, along with Vladimir Alexandrov ($216,000).

Borgata Opener Final Table Results

Position	Player	Prize
1	Pascal Zaklama	$328,695
2	Anonymous	$328,695
3	Vladimir Alexandrov	$216,000
4	Daniel Cai	$153,164
5	Ray Medlin	$120,919
6	Fady Khabbaz	$94,048
7	Noam Muallem	$68,252
8	Andrew Hanna	$47,562
9	Vincent Masino	$30,740
10	Apostolos Vasiliadis	$20,691

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Borgata Opener Final Table Action

According to updates from the event, Zaklama got lucky to stay alive with eight players left. That is when he shoved all in holding ace-jack only to run it into the ace-queen of Daniel Cai. Fortunately for Zaklama, the flop contained both an ace and jack, and another jack on the turn secured him the double with a full house.

With four players remaining, Zalkama would finish off Cai. It happened in Level 40 (500K/1M/1M) when Zaklama limped the small blind holding the and Cai checked his option with the . Zaklama checked the flop and called when Cai moved all in for around 11 million. Neither the turn nor river helped Cai and he was sent to the rail in fourth place for $153,164.

With three players remaining, the triumvirate opted to strike a deal. Having a slight lead at the time, Zaklama was crowned champ and received $328,695 in prize money. The runner-up, who wished to remain anonymous, got the same amount, while Alexandrov finished in third place.

Prior to the win, Zaklama had just $7,881 in lifetime earnings with a prior career-best of just $2,810 for finishing ninth in a $1,000 no-limit hold’em tournament at the 2007 Mandalay Bay Poker Championships.

Coincidentally, Zaklama hinted at his success back on Day 1 when he bagged a short stack.

“I may not be smiling now but I will be tomorrow,” he said at the time.

Barry Leventhal Goes Back-to-Back in Seniors

In other 2019 Borgata Winter Poker Open news, Barry Leventhal topped a 145-entry field to win Event #6: $340 Seniors Deepstack NLH for $12,447.

Borgata Winter Poker Open 2019 Results

The win came six months after Leventhal bested a 166-entry field to win the Borgata Summer Poker Open $340 Seniors for $7,352, meaning he won back-to-back in Borgata Senior events.

It also brought Leventhal’s lifetime tournament earnings up to $553,111, most of which have come in Atlantic City. His career-best of $69,000 came when he finished seventh in the 2008 Borgata Summer Poker Open Championship, and in 2006 he won a $550 NLH event at the Trump Classic to win $59,337.

Seniors Final Table Results

Position	Player	Prize
1	Barry Leventhal	$12,447
2	Eric Siegel	$6,962
3	Joseph Umdenstock	$4,220
4	Steven Blixt	$3,376
5	Alyse Kaplan	$2,532
6	Lisa Pickell	$2,110
7	Peter Carroll	$1,688
8	Ben Laves	$1,266
9	Joseph Frezza	$949
10	John Slaughter	$844