2018
$540+60 Deep Stack NLH
$500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 6: Blinds 200/400/400 BB Ante
Entries: 154
Some familiar faces in Flight A:
Ruslan Arstanaliyev
Ruslan Arstanaliyev took home his second Borgata trophy last month, winning the $200+$30 October Monster Stacks event, coming out on top of a 3-way deal that earned him more than $5,000. His first win here at Borgata was also this year during the June Deepstacks Challenge, good for more than $13,000.
John Yanni
Attilio Bitondo
$540+60 Deep Stack NLH
$500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 5: Blinds 200/300/300 BB Ante
Entries: 139
Players are back from their break and play has resumed. During the break, the green 25 chips were colored-up and removed from play.
$540+60 Deep Stack NLH
$500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
End of Level 4: Blinds 100/200/200 BB Ante
Entries: 131
Four levels have been played out and it’s time for the Kick-Off event to take their first break of the day. Players have 15 minutes to enjoy a respite from the action.
Just a few steps away from our Temporary Tournament Area is the escalator to the Marketplace Eatery, with its myriad of food offerings.
If they don’t have what you’re looking for, there’s also Bread and Butter, located at the other end of the TTA.
$540+60 Deep Stack NLH
$500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 4: Blinds 100/200/200 BB Ante
Entries: 116
Borgata Poker has implemented the “Big Blind Ante” for all No Limit Hold’em tournaments during this Fall Poker Open series, with the exception of the SixMax (Event 13). After a very enthusiastically received debut during the 2018 Spring Poker Open, the Big Blind Ante has become a fixture here at Borgata.
Instead of each player at the table anteing 25 and the dealer having to sort out who has posted and who hasn’t, and collect all the antes, making change where necessary, a single player in the big blind will post the antes for the table.
The amount of the Big Blind Ante is always the same amount as the Big Blind and the number of players at the table is irrelevant. This simplifies the ante process immensely and keeps the game from slowing down once the antes kick in.
Now the player in the big blind will post 200 for the blind and another 200 for the table’s antes. If the player in the big blind doesn’t have enough chips to cover both, his/her chips go toward the Big Blind first, then any chips remaining go toward the BB Ante.
$540+60 Deep Stack NLH
$500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 3: Blinds 100/200
Entries: 95
Today’s first of five starting flights is off to a slow start and given that this is Election Day, it may be contributing to the low ‘voter turnout’ for poker. It’s also a rainy day here in Atlantic City, which may discourage some.
There’s also another tournament starting at 3pm, for those who like more than two cards in their hand. The Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix (Event 2) runs today and tomorrow, overlapping Event 1.
Last year’s first flight drew a total of 234 entrants, so we’re on track to reach a similar number. Five flights saw 1,618 entries last Fall, smashing the $500,000 guarantee with total prize pool of more than $847,000.
$540+60 Deep Stack NLH
$500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 2: Blinds 75/150
Entries: 75
Online Qualifiers are running on BorgataPoker.com and you can qualify for this and other events for as little as $5!
The $5 qualifiers are running daily at 2:30pm, 5:30pm, 8:30pm, and 10:30pm and one of every ten players wins a $45 Borgata Fall Poker Open online satellite entry ticket. Two seats are guaranteed in each qualifier!
Winners of the $45 satellite entry tickets can use them to qualify for this event in the 7:30pm satellites running daily through Wednesday. One of every 15 entrants wins a $600 entry to Event 1 with one seat guaranteed in each satellite.
Twelve players have already earned their seats in this event via satellites online at BorgataPoker.com and you could be next!
Beginning Thursday, those $45 satellite entry tickets can be used for the FPO Championship Super Satellites, which will also run at 7:30pm daily through November 17th. For all the details go to https://poker.borgataonline.com/en/poker/tournaments/fall-poker-open.
$540+60 Deep Stack NLH
$500,000 Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 1: Blinds 50/100
The 2018 Fall Poker Open Deep Stack Kick-Off event is underway with the first of five starting flights. Players get 25,000 chips to start and all levels on Day 1 are 30 minutes long. They’ll play through level 17, then bag up for the night. Flights B and C run Wednesday at 11am and 5pm, respectively. Flights D & E run Thursday at 10am and 6pm.
Late registration and re-entry are open until the start of level 13 (about 5:45pm for Flight A). Re-entries are unlimited and this is also a Best Stack Forward event, meaning players who bag chips in any flight can play a later flight without automatically forfeiting the chips already bagged. Players who manage to bag in more than one starting flight will forfeit all but the largest stack, which they will take into Day 2 on Friday at noon.
Action is underway here in the Temporary Tournament Area (TTA) outside the Poker Room!
The 2018 Fall Poker Open will begin on Election Day, Tuesday, November 6th, with the first two trophy events. Event 1 (Kick-Off Flight A) and Event 2 (Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix) begin at 11am and 3pm, respectively.
The Kickoff event carries a $500,000 Guarantee on total buy-ins and will surely draw a big crowd with five starting flights, which are spread over the first three days of the series:
Flight A: Tuesday, Nov. 6th, 11am
Flight B: Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 11am
Flight C: Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 5pm
Flight D: Thursday, Nov. 8th, 10am
Flight E: Thursday, Nov. 8th, 6pm
Days 2 and 3 will follow at 12 noon Friday and Saturday.
John Lytle – 1st Place – 2017 FPO Kick-Off
John Lytle took 1st place in this event last year, besting a field of 1,618 runners to claim $114,833 in a four-way adjusted payout agreement.
The Omaha/Stud High/Low Mix event has become a staple of the Open Series and has locked up the #2 slot on the series schedule since the 2018 Spring Poker Open last April. It was Event 13 during last year’s Fall Open, when Nate Parenti beat out Chris Reslock for the OE H/L title. That’s just the start of the 16-day series, which runs through Thanksgiving Eve. The Almighty Stack headlines the second week with a $300,000 Guarantee.
The final week will see a shortened Fall Poker Open Championship with a $1 Million Guarantee. It starts with Flight A on Saturday, one day earlier than usual, and the finale will be live-streamed on Wednesday, November 21st.
Darren Elias – 1st Place – 2017 Fall Poker Open Championship
Last year’s FPO Championship title and more than $293,000 was claimed by three-time World Poker Tour Champion Darren Elias, who joined the short-list of players who hold two Borgata Open Series Championship wins. The field of 473 entrants created a prize pool in excess of $1.1 million.
Eighteen trophy events will take place during the series with all the best events returning this year. The Black Chip Bounty is in the #3 slot at the end of the first week, a Saturday Series takes place each weekend, and the $1,000 SixMax NLH wraps up the second week of the series. Each of these events carries a $100,000 Guarantee on total buy-ins.
The first Sunday of the series, November 11th, will start off with the always-popular Seniors Event at 10am. Since that also happens to be Veterans Day, at 12 noon there is a special Veteran’s Day Charity Event benefiting the Disabled American Veterans, (DAV) Atlantic City Chapter 10. The $200+$30+10 Deeper Stack has a $25,000 Guarantee and the $10 donation goes to the DAV, fulfilling our promises to the men and women who served.
The Old School Freeze-Out (no re-entry) event, which debuted during the Borgata Poker Open in September, returns this series as a two-day event. There’s also a HORSE-ament, which hasn’t been held in November since the 2015 FPO. Click here for the full schedule of Main Events.
The FPO will take place in the temporary Tournament Area, (TTA) which worked out well as a substitute for the Event Center during September’s Borgata Poker Open. If needed, tables in the Poker Room will also be used.
The Fall Poker Open microsite has links to all the info you need for the series, including links to main and secondary event schedules, links to FPO tournament results, and other exclusive offers for tournament participants. Check out the information page and don’t forget to click the link and enter the drawing for a free Championship entry!
BorgataPoker.com will be running online qualifiers starting Sunday October 28th. Click here for details.
Hope to see you next month for the Fall Poker Open!
@Kaelaine