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Level 18: Blinds 3,000/6,000/500 ante
Total Entries: 428
Players Remaining: 90
The numbers were released and the final event of the 2017 Borgata Summer Poker Open put up some big ones. The tournament drew 428 entries to create a prize pool worth $83,032 with a min-cash banking $415 and the winner walking away with a very nice $21,213 plus the glass Borgata trophy.
1st: $21,213
2nd: $12,247
3rd: $7,473
4th: $6,020
5th: $4,733
6th: $3,944
7th: $3,155
8th: $2,408
9th: $1,661
10th – 12th: $1,079
13th – 15th: $830
16th – 18th: $656
19th – 27th: $515
28th – 36th: $457
37th – 45th: $415
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Level 17: Blinds 2,500/5,000/500 ante
Total Entries: 428
Players Remaining: 100
Kenny Han
After most of a level elapsed, our big stack mystery player made his way back to his seat and mixing it up.
The second biggest dinner stack belonged to Kenny Han and he’s comfortably heading into the latter stages play with still ~500,000. Han picked up $5,000 in the Survivor event earlier in the series and final tabled a Deep Stacks Challenge event back in June.
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Level 17: Blinds 2,500/5,000/500 ante
Total Entries: 428
Players Remaining: 110
Play is back underway in Event 21 with 110 players remaining, 45 getting paid, and one more BSPO champion.
Joseph Silva continues to lead the way and return from dinner to a stack worth 581,500. That’s no secret but the identity of our second biggest stack is still a mystery. There is a stack waiting at Table 10 with 510,000 in front but nobody behind it ten minutes after the restart. We’ll track down our other big stack once he or she returns.
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Level 16: Blinds 2,000/4,000/300 ante
Total Entries: 428
Players Remaining: 110
Adam Lippert
The Event 21 field is close to dropping into double digits but they won’t get there before dinner. We have 110 left with the clock running out.
Adam Lippert is one of those building late and sits with a double-average stack. He was the last player standing last night in Event 20 and took home the trophy. Lippert won a Borgata Poker Open tournament back in 2009 along with his WSOP Circuit ring from 2007.
Players will run out this level and take a one-hour dinner break, returning at 9pm.
Update: Unfortunately for Lippert’s chance at back-to-back titles, he was eliminated on the last hand before the dinner break.
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Level 15: Blinds 1,500/3,000/300 ante
Total Entries: 428
Players Remaining: 140
Joseph Silva
Players are quickly dropping and Event 21 is down to 14 tables with some other joining Gary Farberov’s big stack.
Joseph Silva is the latest to move over 300,000 and he’s in line for another deep run. He can bookend his series with two big finishes after his 19th place result in the $1 Million Guarantee Kickoff event. Silva’s biggest cash came here two years ago when he finished fourth in the Borgata $2 Million to start the 2015 Borgata Poker Open.
Update: After going back to check on his status, Silva is now at 500,000 and the clear leader.
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Level 14: Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante
Total Entries: 428
Players Remaining: 180
Gary Faberov
Players are back in their seats after another break and it looks like Gary Farberov is the current leader among the 18 tables still in action. There are a few big stack emerging but Faberov’s 360,000 is king at the moment.
They will play through two more levels then take a dinner break.
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Level 14: Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante
Total Entries: 428
Players Remaining: 180
It’s time for players to take another walk away from the tables to get a breath of fresh air and revitalize their souls. It’s going to be a long evening and they’ll have to play into the wee hours of the morning if they want this last BSPO trophy.
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Level 13: Blinds 1,000/2,000/300 ante
Total Entries: 428
Players Remaining: 230
Michael Bonita
The 2017 Borgata Summer Poker Open is wrapping up today and Michael Bonita was one of the more successful players. He only cashed three times but all three were nice results.
Bonita began his series with a $5,000 cash in the first $500+$60 event, made the final table in the Super Stack Elevator tournament for a fifth place finish, then jumped right into the $1000+$90 Six-Max right as registration was closing and finished fifth in that tournament as well. Those results pushed his combined earnings over $130,000 in a career that includes a Borgata Spring Poker Open Black Chip Bounty title from 2015.
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Level 12: Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante
Total Entries: 428
Players Remaining: 250
Sal Guarino
The Event 21 field continues to shrink at an impressive pace as Friday afternoon turns into Friday evening and there are things to do in the casino. All tournament tables are now running in the Signature Room and they’ll keep moving it down until we have a final table with the last champ of the series.
Sal Guarino is a regular Borgata grinder and he’s doing well in post-reg action. We caught up with him in a hand against Event 20 Adam Lipper with the board reading 
and Guarino with a 30,000 bet out front. Lippert released to build Guarino’s stack up to 117,000 and nearly double the current average.
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Level 11: Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante
Total Entries: 428
Players Remaining: 260
The big turnout for Event 21 meant the field was expanded to include tournament tables in the poker room once the Signature Room was packed to capacity. Now that registration is closed, seats are being filled by current players and they are beginning the process of moving tables across the hall.
Only three tables remain in the hopping poker room and they should all be in the Signature Room before too long.