Pre-Event
Jackob Datashvili – 1st Place – 2019 BSPO Championship
The $1 Million Guaranteed 2019 Borgata Summer Poker Open Championship fielded 514 entrants and created a prize pool in excess of $1.2 million. The final table was Live Streamed on Twitch TV and Borgata’s Facebook page and the audience watched as Jackob Datashvili made the right reads and caught the cards when he needed them. He went from next-to-last in the final table chip counts to taking home the 2019 BSPO trophy and $276,129* for 1st Place.
Edwin Ortiz – 1st Place – $1M GTD BSPO Kick-Off
The series started off with a bang with the $1 Million Guaranteed $540+$60 Deep Stack Kick-Off, which saw 1,925 entrants try their luck in six starting flights over three days. At the final table, Edwin Ortiz held the chip lead when the final seven players opted to call it a day. He took 1st place, the trophy, and $105,000* in a seven-way adjusted payout.
Adam Reese took 1st Place in both the Deeper Stack and Almighty Stack NLH events.
Now another Open Series is in the books and 19 Borgata Summer Poker Open trophies have new homes. In fact, two of them went to the same home. Adam Reese etched his name in the record books when he won two main events during this series, the $260+$40 Deeper Stack NLH ($14,805) and the $400+$50 Almighty Stack NLH ($68,806*). The poker dealer from Pennsylvania may be considering a new career.
Ari Engel – 1st Place – Black Chip Bounty post-lim
After earning nine WSOP Circuit rings, Ari Engel finally won his first WSOP bracelet this summer in the $2,500 NLH event. Now just a month later, Engel has added a third Borgata title to his extensive poker resume. He won the $500+60+$100 Black Chip Bounty Deep Stack post-lim event, earning $16,881 and pushing his lifetime earnings close to $6.7 million.
John McGuinness and Eric Siegel both claimed their fourth Borgata titles during this series, joining a very short list of players who can claim that honor. All guarantees were covered and millions in prize money was paid out to hundreds of participants! A complete list of Main Event winners is below.
*Indicates Adjusted Payout
Make plans now to join us for the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open, September 3rd – 20th. Until then, check out the Summer Heater, running August 12-17, and the next DeepStacks Challenge Series, running August 19-25.
This concludes our coverage of the 2019 Borgata Summer Poker Open! On behalf of the Borgata Poker family and our blog team, @Kaelaine, @TKBluffs, @AlCantHang, & @SandBarbour, Thank You!
Space is limited so get your tickets now before it sells out!
Have you ever wondered what your father/uncles/husband/brothers/sons do when they disappear into the poker room for days? Would you like to learn what it is they’re talking about over the dinner table? Have trouble understanding all the poker lingo here in the blog? Well we’ve got the answer coming up this weekend.
Borgata is hosting a Ladies Poker Bruch & Learn this Saturday, July 20th, at 10am at Wolfgang Puck American Grille, right next to the Poker Room. Enjoy brunch and mimosas while you recieve how-to game instruction from Borgata Poker staff.
The Bunch & Learn precedes Event 14, the Ladies Only tournament, which begins at 1pm Saturday, so Ladies can put their newly acquired knowledge to use in a real live $200 + $30 Ladies Only No Limit Hold’em trophy event!
Tickets are $45 and you can purchase them online at https://www.theborgata.com/shows/events/all-events. Just search “poker” to find the event.
Must be 21+ to attend.
Have you ever wondered what your father/uncles/husband/brothers/sons do when they disappear into the poker room for days? Would you like to learn what it is they’re talking about over the dinner table? Have trouble understanding all the poker lingo here in the blog? Well we’ve got the answer coming up this weekend.
Borgata is hosting a Ladies Poker Bruch & Learn this Saturday, July 20th, at 10am at Wolfgang Puck American Grille, right next to the Poker Room. Enjoy brunch and mimosas while you and your crew recieve how-to game instruction from Borgata Poker staff.
The Bunch & Learn precedes the Ladies Only tournament, which begins at 1pm Saturday, so Ladies can put their newly acquired knowledge to use in a real live $200 + $30 Ladies Only No Limit Hold’em trophy event!
Tickets are $45 and you can purchase them online at https://www.theborgata.com/shows/events/all-events. Just search “poker” to find the event.
Must be 21+ to attend.
The 2019 Borgata Summer Poker Open begins July 9th with 18 jam-packed days of tournaments with more than $3.4 million in guarantees! Check out the schedule of Main Events and Secondary Events on Borgata’s web site, along with all the info and links you need on the Summer Poker Open Micro-site.
Online registration for all BSPO Main Events events is available now through Friday, July 5th. On-Site registration will open at 12 noon Monday, July 8th, and then will be open daily 8am to midnight throughout the series.
The massively popular $1 Million Guaranteed $540+$60 DeepStack Kick-Off Event leads with six starting flights over the first three days of the series. Click here to see the structure sheet with daily schedule. BorgataPoker.com is running online qualifiers now through July 10th, so players can earn their way into this event for much less. Live satellites begin Monday, July 8th and are shown on the Secondary Events schedule.
Gary Tavella – 1st Place – 2018 Borgata Summer Poker Open $1M GTD Kick-Off
Last year, this event drew more than 2,200 runners and high-stakes cash game player Gary Tavella claimed $143,730* for 1st place.
The crowning jewel of the BSPO series is the $1 Million Guaranteed Borgata Summer Poker Open Championship, which begins Sunday and Monday, July 21st and 22nd, with starting Flights A and B. Registration for the Best Stack Forward and Unlimited Re-Entry event remains open until the start of Level 11 on Day 2 (July 23rd) about 2:15pm. All the details are available on the structure sheet here.
Greg Nerenberg – 1st Place – 2018 Borgata Summer Poker Open Championship
In 2018, 627 entrants created a prize pool in excess of $1.5 million. Greg Nerenberg emerged triumphant at the final table, which was live-streamed on TwitchTV, defeating Kane Kalas heads-up and earning $365,062.
Enter online to win a free entry in this year’s $2,500+$200 BSPO Championship! Just click here and complete the form before midnight on July 15th.
The Kick-Off is followed by the crowd-favorite Black Chip Bounty, which again carries a $150,000 guarantee on total buy-ins, not including the $100 bounties for each player eliminated. The first Saturday Series $100,000 Guaranteed event is also a Charity event, with a $10 from each entrant donated to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, Southern Branch.
In addition to the two Saturday Series, the other regular one-day events are back, along with some new additions. One-day trophy events include the Seniors, Deeper Stack, HOSE, PLO, Ladies, and four Bounty events: a Double Green-Chip, a Black Chip, and TWO different Purple Chip bounty events.
Multi-day events include the Deepest Stack with two starting flights and a $100,000 Guarantee and the huge Almighty Stack with six starting flights and a $500,000 Guarantee. One major change on this year’s schedule is the $100,000 Guaranteed SixMax has been changed to an EightMax, but carries the same guarantee. This two day event runs Friday, July 19th and Saturday, July 20th, headlining a busy weekend before the Championship begins.
Your team of Borgata Bloggers will be bringing you the action right here in the Summer Poker Open blog. Follow @BorgataPoker on Twitter for updates throughout the series and use #BSPO2019 for all related Tweets.
It’s getting hot outside and it will start heating up inside Borgata on July 9th when the Summer Poker Open begins!
*Indicates adjusted payout.