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3. Wpt Borgata Poker Open 2017 Results 2019
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Season 2017-2018; WPT Borgata Poker Open. Completed event. WPT Online Poker Open powered by partypoker US Network: Jan 22 2021. Complete schedule and details for 2017 Borgata Winter Poker Open at Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ, including registration times, buy-ins, blind structures, starting chips, prize pool guarantees and game information.

Results & Highlights. Borgata Poker Open Results. Event 15 WPT BORGATA POKER OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP September 17-22, 2017 BUY-IN: $3,300 + $200. The World Poker Tour (WPT) will head to Borgata Hotel Casino hosting the 2017 WPT Borgata Poker Open running from the 5th to 22nd September, 2017. The poker series will kick-off with an opening event with a guaranteed prize pool of $2 million.

A 29-year-old won his first World Poker Tour title Feb. 3 at WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open. Daniel Weinman, the player in question, was also celebrating his birthday, making the win a double whammy.

“This is a pretty awesome birthday present,” said Weinman to the WPT. “My girlfriend flew in last minute, you couldn’t have scripted it any better.”

Weinman hasn’t played many tournaments outside of the World Series of Poker. He holds just over $2 million in career tournament earnings. He’s credited with inventing the Fantasyland variation of open-face Chinese poker.

Weinman takes home $892,433 after coming out ahead of the 1,312 player field, a record for the event.

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At the start of play, these were the chip counts:

According to the live updates, Weinman made the call of the tournament, calling an all-in shove from Tyler Kenney on the river of a board that read with , topping Kenney’s king high.

This was anything but easy for Weinman, who was in a tough spot between calling and folding, but then he remembered reading something where Kenney had been timid to make moves at his other WPT Final Table.

“I kind of had this feeling that the first time he really kind of turned up the heat, he might be light,” Weinman said to the WPT. “It was close, he didn’t have a ton of hands he could do that with for value. I would either look really stupid or I’d look like a hero forever.”

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After 10 hands, eliminations began. Nicholas Immekus was first, taking sixth place for $184,787. Jia Liu (fourth, $275,081) and Kenney (third, $327,578) would follow.

Weinman had a massive chip lead heading into the heads-up battle with Nathan Bjerno. He held 33.8 million in comparison to the measly 5.55 million Bjerno was holding. Bjerno would never find his way out.

The final hand had Weinman moving all in preflop. Bjerno would call all in for 3,450,000 with . Weinman held . The board came , so Bjerno could pair his four on the river, but that gave Weinman the eight-high straight to win the pot and the title.

Weinman received the title, the WPT Champions trophy and an inscription on the WPT Champions Cup. His prize money also includes a $15,000 seat into the WPT Tournament of Champions.

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Guo Liang Chen became the newest member of the World Poker Tour Champions Club after he conquered a field of 1,132 for a first-place prize of $789,058 at WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship. The Borgata regular raised the trophy on Friday night after a long final table for his biggest cash by orders of magnitude — he previously had $40,000 total.

In the process, Chen denied tournament legend and former November Niner Cliff 'JohnnyBax' Josephy his first WPT title, as Josephy fell in fifth after coming into the final table short. It's his strongest finish to date in a WPT Main Event.

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Steve Sung, Daniel Strelitz, Maurice Hawkins, WSOP Main Event champ Scott Blumstein, Ben Zamani, Shaun Deeb, Andy Spears and Johanssy Joseph were some of the notable players who made runs into the 110 paid places but fell short of the final table.

After Nick Palma doubled through him once with a three-outer on the river, Chen took another shot at eliminating him by calling a button ship of 12 big blinds with , according to the live updates. Palma showed up with and bubbled the final table when Chen ran a flush.

Stacks heading in were pretty deep, as only Benjamin Morgan and Will Givens sat below 50 big blinds. Consequently, they were the first two to bust.

Morgan shoved 800,000 with over a Chen open at 30,000/60,000/10,000, and Chen put him at risk with . Neither player paired up and Morgan missed a flush draw that he flopped to hit the rail. Givens followed when he lost a race with ace-king to Jia Liu's sixes.

Muarem Kica would then bubble the TV final table after losing most of his stack with queens against Thomas Paul's aces.

Matt Parry held the lead as the only player over 100 big blinds with 9.1 million at 40,000/80,000/10,000 when the final table began. Josephy, meanwhile had the shortest stack with about 3 million but found a double just six hands in when he was dealt aces and Paul picked up .

Paul handed out another double about 30 hands later when he four-bet shoved for 3.5 million with at 60,000/120,000/20,000 and got snapped off by Chen, who had and had three-bet to 860,000. Chen got a sweat as hit the board to give Paul a big combo draw, but the was a safe river.

Left short, Paul got his remaining chips in after flopping top pair of sevens in the big blind with but Chen outdrew him by pairing his on the river.

After sinking down to about 14 big blinds, Josephy called it off with when Gregory Weber shoved from the small blind. Josephy had slightly the best of it against but found himself looking at a board of and needing a heart river. The wasn't enough and Josephy settled for fifth.

Parry's run then ended in fourth. With blinds at 100,000/200,000/25,000, Parry opened button and then shoved 5.2 million when he got three-bet by Weber. Parry's was dominated by , and a king-high flop spelled doom.

It took more than 40 hands of battling for mostly smaller pots before a big development finally happened. Chen had a chance to leap into the lead when he got in a flip with eights against the of Liu for more than half of the chips. Liu flopped aces up to double and leave Chen the shortest with 20 big blinds.

Chen was dealt eights just four hands later, and this time they were the ticket to a double as Liu held sevens. Chen hit quads for good measure. He finished Liu with against just a bit after that to go heads up with Weber down a little under 2-1 in chips.

The key hand that would see Chen turn the tables happened at 200,000/400,000/50,000. Weber made it 1 million and Chen called. Chen check-called another million on . He came out betting with 1.5 million on the turn and Weber called. On the , Chen checked. He called off his final 5,750,000 after some thought when Weber shoved.

Weber could only muster for a bluff and Chen took it with to grab a slight lead.

Seemingly invigorated, Chen won eight of the next nine pots to open up a huge lead. When Weber shoved his last 10 big blinds with , Chen woke up with to finish the job as neither player hit the board.

“I had faith in myself,” he told tournament reporters. “I’m a very gifted player, so I definitely thought I could make it.”

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