Action was in Level 29 with blinds of 25,000/50,000 and an ante of 6,250 as action folded around to "rumpthumper" in the small blind, who jammed for 792,624. "smoothustler" was in the big blind with 770,462 and called all in.
"smoothustler":
"rumpthumper":
The two seemed almost certain to chop until the flop fell , giving "rumpthumper" a chance at the nut flush. The dagger came to "smoothustler" on the turn , leaving them drawing dead for the river as they become the seventh-place finisher.
In Level 28 with blinds of 20,000/40,000 and an ante of 5,000, "PompYouUp" opened to 80,000 in early position and "Djp120388" called in middle position. "sri50k" three-bet all in for 421,786 in the hijack and action made its way around to "PompYouUp," who went all in over the top for 815,524. "Djp120388" folded.
"sri50k":
"PompYouUp":
"sri50k's" two paint cards were up against the best starting hand in the game. A queen came on the flop , but that's as close as it would get as the turn and river left "PompYouUp's" aces best to eliminate "sri50k" in eighth place.
Action was in Level 27 with blinds of 18,000/36,000 and an ante of 4,500. There was 252,00 in the middle in a battle of the blinds, and "Djp120388" bet 126,000 on a flop of . "sri50k" raised all in for well over the size of the pot and "Djp120388" thought for a bit before electing to call.
"Djp120388":
"sri50k":
"Djp120388" found themselves having made the right call and needed to fade a ten or running straight cards. The turn removed the backdoor outs, and the river was safe to complete the runout and score the double, taking the chip lead along with it.
An all-in preflop situation in Level 26 transpired with blinds of 16,000/32,000 and an ante of 4,000. "IReadYrSoul was at risk in the small blind versus "rumpthumper," who was on the button. Both players had around 10 big blinds, with "rumpthumper" being the one to cover.
"IReadYrSoul":
"rumpthumper":
"IReadYrSoul" looked poised to double and leave "rumpthumper" on fumes, but the flop gave "rumpthumper" the nut flush draw. It filled up on the turn , leaving "IReadYrSoul" drawing dead as the river completed the runout to leave them as the ninth-place finisher.
With blinds of 16,000/32,000 and an ante of 4,000 in Level 26, all of the chips got in the middle in a blind-on-blind battle between "golden13" in the small blind, who was at risk against "sri50k" in the big blind.
"golden13":
"sri50k":
"golden13" was in jeopardy of bubbling the final table after running eights into jacks and did just that as the board ran out to leave their queens and eights second best against the queens and jacks of "sri50k" to take the tournament down to nine, reaching the official final table as a result.
While PokerNews is live reporting this particular event, several others have taken place throughout the 2020 Borgata Spring Poker Open Online Series.
On Tuesday night, the $20 buy-in Event #4 Low: $2,000 GTD NLH Red Chip Bounty crushed its guarantee by attracting 422 players. That created a $7,596 prize pool with $5,486 of that going to the main prize pool and $2,110 to the bounty pool. Each elimination was worth a $5.00 red chip to the victor.
The top 45 finishers got paid including “Brusko59” (12th - $76.80), “lasillo1989” (20th - $49.37), “millertime4244” (27th - $38.40), “Steve_Brule” (31st - $32.91), “Jrsgirl322” (38th - $27.43), and “HBK27” (42nd - $27.43).
After more than four hours of play, it was “nigock” defeating “Due2hold1” in heads-up play to win the title and $979.53 first-place prize.
In Level 25 with blinds of 14,000/28,000 and an ante of 3,500, "odo23" was eliminated from the tournament after finding themselves short-stacked. Moments later, "SugarJ" got all in preflop on the button and received action from "Turkeyleg" in the small blind.
"SugarJ":
"Turkeyleg":
"SugarJ" was unable to find help and was eliminated moments after "odo23" as the pair finished in 11th and 12th place, respectively bring about hand-for-hand play with 10 left on the final table bubble.
On the last hand of Level 24 with blinds of 12,000/24,000 and a 3,000-ante, "JinYang" got all in preflop on the button against "ClarkWesterfeld," who was in the small blind.
"JinYang":
"ClarkWesterfeld":
"JinYang" needed to hold to stay alive but instead saw a queen come on the flop , leaving them in need of hitting one of the two remaining jacks. Today would not be the day that happened as the turn and river finished the runout, bringing the number of players left in the tournament down to 13 for just a moment as "thehebrewhamme" was eliminated shortly thereafter, taking that nuber down to 12.