Borgata Poker Open: Failla Collects Fifth Title; Nguyen Wins Re-Entry Event for $111K
When the Borgata in Atlantic City holds one of its popular tournament series, Will "The Thrill" Failla shows up. And Failla usually leaves with a trophy.
This week, Failla won his fifth career Borgata Open title, taking down the $1,090 buy-in no-limit hold'em re-entry event. According to the Borgata Poker Blog, Failla now holds the record for the most trophies in a Borgata Open series. With this victory he added $46,269 to his career earnings which exceed $4 million.
After reaching the final table on Monday, Failla eventually found himself three-handed with Jonas Wexler and Anthony Zinno at 6:15 p.m. ET. It took nearly eight more hours for Failla to close it out, when he bested Wexler heads-up for the title. Failla now has three titles at Borgata in the past year, the biggest coming in a $1,000 six-max re-entry last November for $58,865.
2013 Borgata Poker Open Event #6 ($150K Guaranteed)
| Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool |
|---|---|---|
| $1,000+90 | 159 | $159,000 |
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Will "The Thrill" Failla | $46,269 |
| 2 | Jonas Wexler | $25,448 |
| 3 | Anthony Zinno | $14,652 |
| 4 | Michael Sneideman | $12,338 |
| 5 | Ryan Feldman | $9,254 |
| 6 | Glen Minxolli | $7,712 |
| 7 | Cary Marshall | $6,169 |
| 8 | William Jennings | $4,627 |
| 9 | Xin Jin | $3,470 |
The biggest event thus far on the 2013 Borgata Poker Open slate was the Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold'em Event, a $560 re-entry tournament with $500,000 guaranteed. The 1,056 entries created a prize pool of $528,000 — barely surpassing the guarantee — and walking away with the biggest chunk of it was Johnson Nguyen. The Philadelphia native collected a top prize of $111,360 after defeating Andrew Jeffrey heads-up early Wednesday morning.
On the key hand of the heads-up match, Nguyen and Jeffrey saw aflop of 7x5x2x and Jeffrey led out for 2 million. Nguyen moved all in and Jeffrey snap-called, having Nguyen covered. Nguyen tabled 6x4x and needed help against Jeffrey's pocket kings, and he got there when the river brought an eight to give Nguyen a winning straight. Jeffrey was eliminated a few hands later.
2013 Borgata Poker Open Event #8 ($500K Guaranteed)
| Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool |
|---|---|---|
| $500+60 | 1,056 | $528,000 |
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnson Nguyen | $111,360 |
| 2 | Andrew Jeffrey | $66,914 |
| 3 | Frank Bonacci | $40,493 |
| 4 | Joseph Grodowski | $33,913 |
| 5 | Tony Sinishtaj | $27,839 |
| 6 | Aleksander Sirota | $22,524 |
| 7 | Matt Maccaroni | $17,969 |
| 8 | Pierce McKellar | $13,666 |
| 9 | John Caltagirone | $9,364 |
The Borgata Poker Open will conclude next week with the $3,500 World Poker Tour event which boasts a $3 million guaranteed prize pool. The five-day tournament will finish on Friday, Sept. 20, and PokerNews will provide daily updates for the duration.
*Data courtesy of Borgata Poker Blog.
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