The Return - A Borgata Championship Event

$2,200 Mystery Bounty Event ($1,000,000 in Guaranteed Bounties)
Day: 2
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Event Info
The Return - A Borgata Championship Event
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,200
Prize Pool
$2,670,340
Total Entries
1,361
Players Left
9
Average Chip Stack
5,292,778
Total Chips
47,635,000
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
160,000
Players Info - Day 2
Entries
397
Players Left
9
Players Left 9 / 1,361
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"Sick Hand" Sees Zhan Double With Ladies

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

An early position player opened to 18,000 and Michael Zhan three-bet to 60,000 from the next seat. Action folded around and the opponent four-bet jammed with Zhan covered. Zhan called off for a total of 224,000.

Michael Zhan: {q-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}
Early Position: {a-}{k-}

The flop landed {10-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{k-Clubs} to give the opponent a commanding lead and the {k-Hearts} was just an insult to injury for Zhan. However, the dealer put down the {q-Spades} on the river to give Zhan queens full and the table erupted after the rollercoaster hand.

"What a sick hand!" someone commented.

Zhan remarked that the hand "played itself" and the opponent replied that he was "surprised you called."

"Hard to fold queens," a table mate countered.

Tags: Michael Zhan

Randolph Rivers Chop

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

On a flop of {9-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}{2-Hearts}, Naichang Chen was in a good spot to get a needed double as he held the {k-Diamonds}{q-Diamonds} for top pair and was out-kicking the {k-Spades}{8-Spades} of Columbus Randolph.

The turn was the {9-Spades} to pair the board and the river came the {a-Clubs} to give both players two pair with an ace kicker to chop it up, which Randolph was much more excited about than Chen who frowned a bit as he pulled back his initial short stack.

Tags: Columbus RandolphNaichang Chen

Cicali Pulls $100K Bounty

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Anthony Cicali III
Anthony Cicali III

Anthony Cicali is one of the early big winners of the day after the Borgata regular and online grinder pulled the $100,000 bounty during Level 16.

"I can't even call my girlfriend, she's in a massage appointment right now!" he laughed.

One $100,000 bounty still remains, as does the elusive $250,000 bounty.

Spinella Sends Cohen Away

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Anthony Spinella
Anthony Spinella

Michael Cohen moved all in except for 15,000 that he left behind. Anthony Spinella called and turned over the {a-Diamonds}{j-Hearts} but Cohen was not all in quite yet and Spinella quickly turned his cards back over.

The flop came {j-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}. Despite knowing that Spinella hit his jack, Cohen tossed in the last few chips and Spinella called.

Cohen had the {a-Diamonds}{q-Clubs} which would try to chase down the pair of jacks. The turn was the {9-Diamonds} and the river came the {q-Spades} to end the day for Cohen.

Tags: Anthony SpinellaMichael Cohen

Matos Doubles Through Flip

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Joseph Matos was at risk preflop with the {a-}{q-} against the {10-}{10-} of his opponent.

The flop sent him ahead as it came {4-Hearts}{q-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}. The turn was the {2-Spades} and the river came the {k-Diamonds} to secure his double up.

Tags: Joseph Matos

Level: 16

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 6,000

"Call the Press!" Lonis Scoops for Double KO

Level 15 : Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Jesse Lonis
Jesse Lonis

PokerNews got to Table 7 just as a massive hand involving three players was underway. Action kicked off with Martin Mirkovic opening to 11,500 from under the gun and the next player to act calling before a middle position player three-bet jammed for around 65,000.

Action folded to Jesse Lonis in the small blind, who four-bet jammed a bigger stack. The big blind then also moved all in with around 70,000.

"Call the press!" Lonis yelled as the massive hand played out and he alerted his friend at another table who had a piece of his bounty.

"The press is here!" someone replied.

Mirkovic went deep in the tank and eventually folded, while the flat-caller also folded.

Middle Position: {a-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}
Big Blind: {q-Spades}{q-Clubs}
Jesse Lonis: {a-Clubs}{a-Spades}

Lonis was in good shape but the big blind had two live outs and was screaming for a queen.

"Queen!" he yelled as the flop landed {j-Hearts}{3-Clubs}{9-Spades}. "QUEEN!" he repeated before the {4-Spades} turn. The opponent gave up asking for a queen before the {9-Clubs} bricked off on the river for Lonis to eliminate both opponents.

"Scoop!" he cheered.

After the hand, Mirkovic told the table that he folded ace-king.

Tags: Jesse LonisMartin Mirkovic

Eriquezzo Raises River

Level 15 : Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Action was picked up on the river with the board reading {q-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{j-Hearts}{q-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}. Matheus Simonetti Pereira bet 17,000 into a pot of 47,000.

Ryan Eriquezzo raised to 70,000 to turn the screws on his opponent who mulled it over for a solid minute before eventually getting rid of his hand and sending the pot to Eriquezzo.

Tags: Matheus Simonetti PereiraRyan Eriquezzo

Conniff Above 500,000

Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Asher Conniff
Asher Conniff

A player was all in preflop for close to 100,000. Asher Conniff and Nohad Teliani both called as big stacks.

The flop came {7-Diamonds}{j-Diamonds}{5-Spades}. Conniff bet 50,000 and Teliani quickly folded. Conniff showed the {7-Spades}{7-Clubs} which made Teliani express relief over having whiffed the flop while the all in player held the {k-Hearts}{j-Hearts}.

The turn was the {j-Spades} to give the all in player trips but improve Conniff to a full house. The river was the {3-Hearts} and Conniff added a bounty to his haul as well as the big pot to move his stack north of 500,000 to put himself among the leaders.

Tags: Asher ConniffNohad Teliani