Borgata Poker Tournaments July 2019
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event kicked off on Sunday with the first of two starting flights. 271 entries were tallied on the day, though expect loads more on Monday. Leading the 129 survivors into Day 2 is Mukharji Uppalapati with 252,400 chips.
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The Borgata Poker Open is one of the few “old guard” stops on the World Poker Tour, having been part of the schedule since Season II (we are now in Season XVIII). It began as one of the biggies on the live tournament calendar, boasting a $10,000 buy-in. But like most of the WPT Main Events, the buy-in was decreased on a number of years ago to encourage more signups. In Season VIII, the buy-in was set at $3,500, which is where it has been ever since.
At the same time, unlimited re-entries are permitted all the way through the first two levels of Day 2. Thus, the WPT Borgata Poker Open can draw more players with the lower buy-in, but the re-entries can still goose the prize pool.
Day 1A was pretty darn competitive at the top of the leaderboard. Asher Conniff is close behind Uppalapati with 247,800. Three other players beat the 200,000 mark: Ryan Olisar (229,700), Bruce Kramer (211,600), and Larry Ormson (204,600). Lucas Drolet was also just a few hundred chips underneath the 200,000 chip plateau.
As a summer of tournament poker dawns, Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa is gearing up for another festival. The 2019 Borgata Summer Poker Open is set to get underway on July 9.
Uppalapati is essentially a regional player, hailing from Gaithersburg, Maryland. His $112,454 in live earnings are all fairly small, the largest of which is about $25,000. Most of his cashes have come at Maryland Live! Casino and all but one is at a Maryland venue. The lone holdout is his biggest cash, which came from a sixth place finish in a preliminary event at the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open this past January.
The plan for today is the exact as yesterday. After all, it would not be fair to players in either starting flight if Days 1A and 1B differed. There will be eight hour-long levels with 15-minute breaks every two levels. Interestingly (or not, I don’t know), there will be no dinner break. The first two levels of Day 2, during which players can still register and re-enter, will also be 60 minutes. After that, they will be 75 minutes for the rest of Tuesday. The big blind ante is in effect from the jump.
The eventual winner of the tournament will have some big shoes to fill. Last year’s champ was Erkut Yilmaz who then went on to win WPT Rolling Thunder and the WPT Player of the Year award.
2019 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Main Event – Day 1A Chip Leaders
- Mukharji Uppalapati – 252,400
- Asher Conniff – 247,800
- Ryan Olisar – 229,700
- Bruce Kramer – 211,600
- Larry Ormson – 204,600
- Lucas Drolet – 199,100
- Jordan Fisch – 180,200
- Connor Daum – 177,200
- Andrew Ostapchenko – 165,800
- Spencer Champlin – 163,000
$540+$60 Deep Stack Kick-Off NLH
$1 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 4: Blinds 200/300/300 BB Ante
Entries: 133
This event’s defending champion is now sitting across the felt from Borgata’s winningest player, Abraham Korotki.
Abraham just took home his tenth Borgata title last month during the DeepStacks Series, pushing his lifetime reported earnings close to $1.89 million.
Gary Tavella got his last ~9,000 in from under-the-gun and Abraham looked him up from the small blind on a flop of . Gary’s (top/top) was ahead of Abraham, who was drawing to a flush and gutshot with .
The board completed with two bricks, the and , and Gary survived, doubling to about 20,000. Abraham was left with about the same amount of chips.
With both these guys on the same table, we should expect more fireworks!
$540+$60 Deep Stack Kick-Off NLH
$1 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 3: Blinds 100/200/200 BB Ante
Last year, Gary Tavella took home the Event 1 title along with $143,730 for 1st place in a three-way adjusted payout agreement.
He’s already in action here today, drawing a seat at Table 1 right in the front of the Signature Room. He’s a high stakes cash game player and doesn’t have a lot of tournament results on his resume, but he appears determined to book another score in this event.
$540+$60 Deep Stack Kick-Off NLH
$1 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 2: Blinds 100/100/100 Big Blind Ante
With this level, the Big Blind Ante has begun. In this format, only the player in the big blind posts the ante for the table. The amount is always the same as the Big Blind, regardless of the number of players at the table. If there is an all-in situation in the big blind, chips go toward the big blind first, then the ante.
The Big Blind Ante is a big hit with players and dealers alike, plus it eliminates the need for the green 25-denomination chips. All No Limit Hold’em events in this series will use the big blind ante format.
$540+$60 Deep Stack Kick-Off NLH
$1 Million Guaranteed
Structure Sheet
Level 1: Blinds 100/100
The first starting flight of the Borgata Summer Poker Open Kick-Off is underway! Tournament Director Tab Duchateau has made the opening announcements and cards are in motion.
Players get 25,000 tournament chips to start and registration for this flight is open until the start of level 13 (about 5:45pm). Entries & re-entries are unlimited so players who bust out can re-enter this flight or any subsequent flight until registration closes.
All Day 1 levels are 30 minutes long and there will be 16 levels played before they call it quits for the night.
Schedule of starting flights:
Flight A: Today, 11am
Flight B: Today, 5pm
Flight C: Wednesday, 11am
Flight D: Wednesday, 4pm
Flight E: Thursday, 10am
Flight F: Thursday, 5pm
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.
Borgata Poker Tournaments July 2019 2020
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!
Borgata Poker Tournaments July 2019 Calendar
*Indicates adjusted payout.