Event 9 (Day 1D)
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Structure Sheet
Level 17: Blinds 6,000/12,000/2,000 ante
Entries: 592
Players Remaining: 130
Nicholas Egarhos
Play has come to an end for Flight D of the Almighty Stack with approximately 130 players putting their chips into a bag for a Day 2 return tomorrow at noon.
Nicholas Egarhos put the biggest stack away with 1,386,000 coming back, good enough to put him among the Day 2 leaders. Other notables advancing include Asher Conniff, Greg Fishberg, Sam Taylor, Howard Wolper, and Judy Bielan.
Registration is still open in Flight E until the start of Level 13 for those who want to try to join them.
Michael Egarhos – 1,386,000
Edward Altman – 1,159,000
Awaise Dar – 1,102,000
Kyle Burnside – 950,000
Asher Conniff – 797,000
Greg Fishberg – 717,000
Matt Ferrante – 691,000
Tom Gottlieb – 610,000
Derek Staib – 511,000
Rob Elias – 481,000
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Structure Sheet
Level 16: Blinds 5,000/10,000/2,000 ante
Entries: 592
Players Remaining: 160
Joe Gay
We are back in action in the Signature Room with one more hour of play. Joe Gay is the latest to take a spot on top of the leaderboard with 1,351,000 with Sofokle Panagiotis not far behind with 1,328,000. Both have a bit of work to do to catch Thomas Beccari for the overall lead with nearly 2,500,000.
Sofokle Panagiotis
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Structure Sheet
Level 15: Blinds 4,000/8,000/1,000 ante
Entries: 592
Players Remaining: 235
Level 15 is complete and Flight D players are enjoying their last walk away from the Signature Room. Tournament staff will take this time to color off the purple 500 chips and put the 100K chip into play. When they return, it will be two more levels and then bagging up some chips.
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Structure Sheet
Level 14: Blinds 3,000/6,000/1,000 ante
Entries: 592
Players Remaining: 238
Bags are out to bag up and move the last Flight D table in the poker room
The last table in the poker room has broken and now the entirety of the Flight D field is now in the Signature Room with 238 players remaining. That doesn’t mean the poker room is empty, it is quickly filling with Flight E players so they are still jumping.
Flight D will play four more levels and survivors will bag up for a return tomorrow at noon.
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Structure Sheet
Level 13: Blinds 2,500/5,000/500 ante
Entries: 593
Flight D players returned from their third break of the day and registration is closed. But there is always Flight E freshly underway in the poker room if players still want some action.
The next-to-last flight is showing 593 entries on the tournament clock, still waiting on the locked in number, and that is well more than enough to top the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. They pushed over that amount and now they will begin piling it higher until registration closed on Flight E later this evening.
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Structure Sheet
Level 12: Blinds 2,000/4,000/500 ante
Entries: 576
Ci Zhou
Ci Zhou needed to make a move to build a stack or hit the re-entry desk. He was down to ~55,000 and moved all in from early position. One player called before another player shipped all-in for another 100,000 on top. The original caller abandoned his chips and they were heads up for his triple.
Zhou: 
Opponent: 
It was a race and Zhou was already standing up with his backpack on. His opponent hit the flop but the 
board also gave Zhou the set. But there’s always a sweat and the 
turn gave him a little concern. The 
river was a face card but the wrong one for his opponent and Zhou tripled his boat.
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Structure Sheet
Level 12: Blinds 2,000/4,000/500 ante
Entries: 573
Shawn Cunix
Shawn Cunix was utg+1 and got all-in for his last 85,500 on a flop of 
. Then the player on the button moved in, then the player in the small blind called all-in. They both had Shawn covered with the button holding the biggest stack.
Shawn: 
– two pair
button: 
– flush draw
big blind: 
– one pair
The 
on the turn gave Shawn a full boat and the button was drawing dead. The big blind was drawing slim looking for one of two remaining Jacks.
The completed the board and Shawn tripled up to about 270,000. The big blind took the side pot.
On the next hand, he got 32 again and won another pot. Soon after he had AQ against 
and rivered trip Aces for another pot. He’s now playing more than 402,000.
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Structure Sheet
Level 11: Blinds 1,500/3,000/500 ante
Entries: 566
Mark Scacewater
Rick Rossetti got his last 61,000 in the middle holding 
against two players who both had Big Slick. The board ran out 
and since Mark Scacewater had 
, he turned a Royal Flush to scoop the pot. He’s up to about 380,000.
Rick reported to the rail.
Rick Rossetti
If you gotta lose, might as well lose to the best!
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Structure Sheet
Level 11: Blinds 1,500/3,000/500 ante
Entries: 561
Asher Conniff
There are a few Borgata legends in the game today but maybe none with the crazier ride of Asher Conniff. In 2015, Conniff began his Borgata Spring Poker Open with a win in the opening event for more than $200,000 and bookended it with a huge win in the series ending WPT World Championship for nearly $1,000,000. That was a heck of a run and bankroll boost.
Since that was the last WPT World Championship before they switched over to a Tournament of Champions format, Conniff continues to be the reigning WPT World Champion. He’s doing fine so far today with more than 250,000 from his 100,000 starting stack.
Conniff is also eligible to play in the Borgata Tournament of Champions on Saturday celebrating the Borgata’s 15th Anniversary.
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Structure Sheet
Level 10: Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante
Entries: 540
Mike Policastro
Both the Signature Room and poker room are filling with players and the biggest flight of the Almighty Stack continues to push the numbers higher. The magic number is 576 to hit the guaranteed prize pool and we might get there before the last fight kicks off at 5pm.
Borgata reg Mike Policastro is taking his shot today and looking for his first Borgata title after two close calls. He finished in second position in a Deep Stacks Challenge series event in February after he final tabled a Deepstack event during the 2018 Borgata Winter Poker Open.