Tournament staff will begin balancing for nine-handed play in the near future. The field is halfway through Level 12 and another break with less than 170 players remaining. The hand kept him in this game and he’s around the six-digit mark. (Author’s note: It doesn’t)Īttali has one tournament cash to his credit after a deep run in the December 2014 Borgata Poker Deepstack Challenge $350 event. We caught the action after the on the river.Ī few players starting looking around for floor staff, jokingly asking if the hand qualified for the Borgata Bad Beat Jackpot. The biggest payday at the Borgata in April was to Brooklyn’s Jia Liu, who won the Spring Poker Open’s main event and 312,483. In addition to the Bad Beat Jackpot, the Borgata Poker Room is also running their $3,000 High Hand Challenge every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday as well as continuing their bonus comps promotion though the month of February.You have to get lucky to go deep in these big field events and Benjamin Attali (New York, NY) earned his first break as they moved into Level 12. The biggest payday at the Borgata in April was to Brooklyn’s Jia Liu, who won the Spring Poker Open’s main event and 312,483. The Borgata Poker Room is always packed with action on weekends and with that BBJ prize pool up over $325,000 and continuing to grow until somebody takes the best bad beat of their life, it should drive even more players to the tables as they try to get “unlucky” and walk away with some life changing money. While the Deep Stacks Challenge is in full swing, currently just past the mid-way point of it’s most successful series in terms of prize pools and field sizes ever, it’s never too early to start looking ahead at what’s coming up in the next few weeks and months on the Borgata Poker calendar.īut, before we preview the Spring Poker Open and a brand new “championship-like” event series, let’s take a look at the most important thing on cash game players minds heading into the weekend, the growing Borgata Bad Beat Jackpot.

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