Event 8
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Structure Sheet
Level 12: Blinds 1,000/2,000/2,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 117
Players Remaining: 60
Average Stack: 58,500
Al Annunziata & Gary Kosakowski
After Al Annunziata opened for 11,000,Gary Kosakowski 3-bet to 25,000. Al 4-bet-shipped his whole stack, 53,000, and Gary snapped, showing pocket Aces. Al tabled pocket deuces.
A deuce on the flop gave him a set of ducks and enough to down Gary’s rockets. Gary was left with about 110,000 while Al doubled to about 120,000.
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Structure Sheet
Level 11: Blinds 800/1,500/1,500 BB Ante
Total Entries: 117
Total Buy-In: $25,000
Total Prize Pool: $24,298
The final 18 players will get paid as shown below, with the winner also taking home the Borgata Fall Poker Open trophy!
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $7,169 |
| 2 | $4,009 |
| 3 | $2,430 |
| 4 | $1,944 |
| 5 | $1,458 |
| 6 | $1,215 |
| 7 | $972 |
| 8 | $729 |
| 9 | $547 |
| 10 – 12 | $486 |
| 13 – 15 | $425 |
| 16 – 18 | $364 |
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Structure Sheet
Level 10: Blinds 600/1,200/1,200 BB Ante
Total Entries: 117
Players Remaining: 68
Average Stack: 51,600
(l to r): Natale Kuey & Tommy Bates, plus the two blinds.
On Table 2, five players limped to the flop including Natale Kuey (cutoff), Tommy Bates (button), and both blinds.
On the very disconnected 
flop, it was checked around. The 
paired the board on the turn and the small blind led out for 2,200. Everyone folded around to Tommy on the button, who called.
The 
completed the board and again the small blind led out, this time for 7,200. Tommy made the call, tabling 
and the small blind mucked his hand. Tommy chipped up to about 90,000 with that pot.
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Structure Sheet
Level 10: Blinds 600/1,200/1,200 BB Ante
Total Entries: 117
Players are back in action following the break.
Registration has closed for this event with 117 total entrants, meaning the guarantee was not covered. Total buy-ins will be $25,000 and prize pool is $24,250, which will go to the final 18 players.
Just before they went on the break, Jeff ‘Gorilla’ Shurilla got all-in with K9 against KT. He flopped a 9, but a Ten on the turn ended his tournament.
Jeff Shurilla
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Structure Sheet
End of Level 9: Blinds 500/1,000/1,000 BB Ante
Entries: 115
Level 9 is done and it’s time for a break. When play resumes, registration will close for this event.
So far, the big stacks in the room belong to a couple of guys.
Gary Kosakowski ~ 150,000
Joe Fermane ~ 145,000
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Structure Sheet
Level 9: Blinds 500/1,000/1,000 BB Ante
Entries: 106
Scott Rosmarin
Scott Rosmarin is a one-man wrecking crew on table 8. He’s taken out two players on back-to-back hands.
Most recently, the short-stack was all-in holding A8 against Scott’s 77. The pair held and Scott’s up to about 125,000.
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Structure Sheet
Level 8: Blinds 400/800/800 BB Ante
Entries: 104
Jim Keyser presents raffle prize to Tony Mirabile.
The raffle drawing was completed and the winning ticket drawn belonged to Tony Mirabile of Queens, NY. Jim Keyser, Commander of Chapter 10 of the DAV presented Tony with his certificate for the free night at Borgata and $100 food voucher for the win.
The raffle was open to everyone, but it’s nice that a player in the Charity event won the drawing, although Tony’s stack is a bit short. Perhaps the raffle win will bring his some luck on the felt as well.
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Structure Sheet
Level 6: Blinds 200/400/400 BB Ante
Entries: 97
Amy Augenstein
Just before the blinds went up, a multi-way limped pot went down on table 7. An early position player limped, followed by Borgata tournament regular Stephen Moy, followed by Amy Augenstein (button) and both blinds.
On the fairly dry flop of 
, it was checked to the early limper, who bet 1,100, getting called by Stephen and Amy. When the 
appeared on the turn, it was checked to Amy who fired 2,000. Everyone surrendered and Amy was awarded the pot. She’s back to starting-stack-size of 30,000.
Amy cashed in last Spring’s Saturday Series, making it to the final two tables of the 468-entrant field to finish 13th for $1,589.
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Structure Sheet
Level 5: Blinds 200/300/300 BB Ante
Entries: 89
Veterans Day DAV Charity event players have just returned from their color-up break and the green 25-denomination chips have been taken away.
Howard Evan Wolper
One player in this field who is always a threat to make the money is Howard Wolper. With a record 116 tournament cashes at Borgata, he’s far beyond the others chasing that record.
He’s recently converted his book of poetry into prose and anyone interested can check out his web site. Here’s an excerpt from the Introduction:
“In 1995, Howard Evan Wolper, the artist/art historian became involved with a new, fresh, culturally vibrant and fertile resource for ‘The Questioning of Art’… SPORTS. Yes, poker is a sport. In tune with a sports-dominated time, the desperately needed and long-awaited appearance of 21st Century Art has finally arrived…hoisting a trophy (an art-sports torpedo launched into the universe) ‘elevating a win’ to the grandeur of a WORK OF ART.
This art manifesto presentation was recited by The Manifesto Cheerleaders, Mascot, Ghosts and Others at Caesar’s W. S. O. P. circuit main event, Atlantic City, The World Poker Finals, Foxwoods, Conn. The Brooklyn Classic, New York and The World Series of Poker at the Rio, Las Vegas, tournaments in which Howard Evan Wolper participated. He is a poker champion/artist with something new to say about contemporary art. Championist Art, it’s all about art, being a champion, and why the only apposite 21st century art is one and the same.”
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Structure Sheet
Level 4: Blinds 100/200/200 BB Ante
Entries: 77
Blinds are up and the Big Blind Ante is in play for this event, so the player in the Big Blind will also post the antes for the table.
Lots of familiar faces in today’s DAV Charity event!
Ted Geier looking a little sleepy after a deep run last night.
Ted Geier was up late last night, cashing in the Saturday Series NLH event (Event 5). Despite being short-stacked on the money bubble with 46 players fighting for 45 payouts, he held on and made it to 25th place, earning $958.
Jeff Shurilla
Sharing the felt with Ted is former Borgata Blogger Jeff ‘Gorilla’ Shurilla. After many years of blogging tournaments here, he turned up for the 2014 January Winter Poker Open $350 Big Stack NLH event and finished 5th for $15,274!
Tommy Bates
Also in the ‘former’ category is Tommy Bates, who was part of the Borgata Poker team for years before moving to Florida and running the Poker Room at a Tampa casino. He has since moved back north and is running the Poker show at a venue in Philadelphia. Tommy still comes to visit us at Borgata whenever he gets a chance.