Borgata Summer Poker Open 2018

Detailed information about the Deep Stack Kickoff No-Limit Hold'em (BB Ante) poker tournament at the Borgata Summer Poker Open '18 on Jul 12, 2018 in Atlantic City, NJ. View the results of Event 1 of the Summer Poker Open. Borgata Summer Poker Open Results. Event 1 DEEPSTACK KICK-OFF NLH RE July 10-14, 2018 BUY-IN.

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Borgata Summer Poker Open 2018 Results
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2018 Summer Poker Open $340 Pot-Limit Omaha High Poker tournament event info. Name: Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa Address: One Borgata Way - Atlantic City, NJ Phone: 609-677-1000. Borgata Poker Blog; Nitelife. Premier Nightclub; Gypsy Bar. Band Schedule; Specials; All Bars. Summer Poker Open Results. Event 15 BORGATA SUMMER POKER OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP July 22-26, 2018 BUY-IN: $2,500 + $200 ENTRIES: 627 TOTAL BUY-IN: $1,567,500 1st Place. GREGORY NERENBERG. Borgata Summer Poker Open Results. Event 2 OE H/L 8B July 10-11, 2018 BUY-IN: $300 + $40 ENTRIES: 82 TOTAL BUY-IN: $24,600 1st Place. GERARD FABIANO $7,159 2nd Place. ROBERT CAMANO $7,159 3rd Place. MICHAEL GABARICK $2,863.

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The 2018 edition of the Borgata Spring Poker Open (BSPO) $2,700 Championship NLH Re-entry drew 519 entries, bringing the total prize pool well over the $1 million guarantee to $1,297,500. The final six returned on Thursday to battle down to a winner and Almedin Imsirovic walked away with the official win after a near-even heads-up deal with runner-up Farid Jattin.

Neither of these players is a slouch in the tournament poker realm and amazingly, both players skipped Day 1 and bought directly into Day 2 for 40,000 chips at 500/1,000 blinds before grinding all the way to heads-up and chopping it up, according to the live updates.

Imsirovic, who has reportedly been playing professionally for just the past year and a half, had accumulated just over $450K before this score. His previous biggest score came just a few months ago when he beat out a talent-packed final table in a PCA $10K event, defeating Ryan Riess heads up to lock up $160,000.

Jattin came into this final table already with $2.5 million in live earnings, according to Hendon Mob, and like Imsirovic, was also coming off of a recent significant win. Jattin took down the $1,650 Winter Poker Open Main Event at Seminole Hard Rock in Tampa, Florida back in December for $241,651 — strikingly similar to the payout that he would go on to receive for his finish at Borgata.

Jattin has done well historically at the venue, and interestingly this was not Jattin's first second-place Borgata Poker Open finish. In 2011, he took second in the Summer edition of the event for $117,000 and went on to two sixth-place finishes in the 2014 and 2016 $3,500 buy-in WPT Borgata Poker Open for scores of $174,000 and $168,000, respectively.

Official Final Table Payouts

Place	Player	Payout
1st	Almedin Imsirovic	$246,066*
2nd	Farid Jattin	$243,521*
3rd	Nick Salimbene	$113,272
4th	Richard Pachoca	$89,988
5th	David Mock	$70,480
6th	Nick Palma	$57,894

Final Table Action

Jattin and Imsirovic came into the final six number one and two in chips with deep stacks of 118 and 89 big blinds. David Mock started the final table as the shortie with 25 big blinds with the others falling in between. Jattin went to work extending his lead early and Nick Palma took a big hit in the second blind level of play when he ran ace-king in the small blind into short stack Nick Salimbene's pocket kings in the big blind. All the chips went in pre and Salimbene came away with the double, leaving Palma with around 32 big blinds.

Palma's stack dwindled until he got the rest in with queen-jack against Jattin's ace-nine suited. Despite flopping an open-ender, Palma couldn't find help from the turn or river and Jattin got the KO with ace-high, putting him out in front of the remaining pack even further.

Jattin was then poised to eliminate Richard Pachoca when Pachoca got his remaining stack in with queen-jack on a flop, only to be dominated by Jattin's king-jack. Pachoca found the favorable runout though to double through, putting a mere dent in Jattin's tower.

Imsirovic Takes the Lead

The next hit would be a big one though, and Jattin suffered it at the hands of Imsirovic. The latter raised it up and got calls from Jattin in the small and Salimbene in the big. Jattin led out on the flop only to be raised by Imsirovic after Salimbene got out of the way.

Jattin called and check-shoved the turn, which was met with a snap-call by Imsirovic who held pocket kings. Jattin was in need of help with for a gutshot and an overcard, but the river meant a huge double for Imsirovic that gave him the chip lead, and Jattin was down to short-stack territory.

Start of day short stack David Mock got his last crumbs in with queen-ten and completely whiffed, sending the last of his chips to Pachoca and his pocket eights that held up. Despite the double, Pachoca would be next to go in fourth place after doubling up Jattin with against , both four-flushing with a heart but Jattin's best. The rest went to chip leader Imsirovic, who flopped aces up with and Pachoca committed the rest on the turn with for just a pair of aces.

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Down to three, Salimbene mixed it up with Imsirovic and despite flopping the world with on , Salimbene could only muster a pair of sixes after a runout of , and it was an easy river call for Imsirovic holding for turned trips. Salimbene took third and the heads-up was set, Imsirovic with a nearly 6-to-1 chip lead over Jattin and his 31 big blinds.

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Heads-Up

Jattin, down but not out, found an early double check-shoving the turn and getting called with top pair versus second pair. Imsirovic got some back and had Jattin on the ropes again, this time with the best of it on a board of . Imsirovic bet and called a shove with for top pair, but Jattin had outs with . He found the on the river to stay alive and even out the stacks.

At this point, it appears from the coverage that the two took an unscheduled break to work out a deal, Imsirovic with a marginal chip lead over Jattin. Upon their return, the two got in stacks and Imsirovic's became trip fives on the river to best Jattin's flopped pair of tens. Imsirovic got the victory and $246,066 while Jattin had to settle for another second place to go with yet another six-figure score at the Borgata, this time $243,521.

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One of the largest poker rooms in the United States is set to reopen this Wednesday after being closed since mid-March due to the pandemic. Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey will open its doors at 10 a.m. local time, albeit with some changes.

The room, which previously housed 77 tables, will open with just 30 spaced-out tables, each with polycarbonate divides between each seat. Only seven-handed cash games will be offered as there are no plans for tournaments right now. However, players can expect some lucrative promotions including a Bad Beat Jackpot starting at $100,000.

Here are some other changes and procedures:

Masks are required in the poker room (and other public areas in the casino)
Beverage service is available
Food will not be permitted in the poker room
Hand sanitizing stations will be available throughout the room
Spectators will not be allowed in the poker room

“We are happy to welcome back our loyal players as we reopen Atlantic City’s market-leading East Coast poker destination,” said Melonie Johnson, president and chief operating officer of Borgata.

She continued: “We have made some changes to enhance our guests’ experience and are excited to reintroduce live poker and the Borgata Poker brand more safely.”

While Borgata was the last casino to reopen in Atlantic City, it will be the first of the city’s poker rooms to welcome back players. It’s by far the busiest against the competition, which includes Harrah’s Atlantic City, Bally’s, Golden Nugget, and Tropicana. Over the past two years, the combined revenue from all five rooms has totaled approximately $28.5 million each year. In 2019, just shy of $18 million of that came from Borgata.

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Looking to Continue Strong Legacy

Borgata has a long history in the poker world. Not only do they host popular in-house tournament series like the Borgata Spring/Summer/Fall Poker Open (all of which were canceled this year), but they also enjoy a longstanding relationship with the World Poker Tour.

In fact, prior to the pandemic, the 2020 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Main Event took place, which saw a 1,290-entry field whittled down to the final six players. The final table was slated to play out at the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on April 1, but the pandemic interrupted those plans.

Even now, that final table – as well as those for the 2020 WPT Gardens Poker Championship and WPT L.A. Poker Classic – are still on hiatus with an unknown return date. As such, players like Veerab Zakarian, James Anderson, Brian Altman, Bin Weng, Andrew Hanna, and Nathan Russler will need to wait to see who walks away with the title and $674,840 first-place prize.

Despite the pandemic, the WPT and Borgata continued their relationship last month by hosting the WPT Online Borgata Series powered by partypoker US Network. The 10-event series saw Tony “ToNiSiNzz” Sinishtaj top a 440-entry field to win the $1,060 Main Event for $77,349.