The New Jersey Online Poker Briefing: Garden State Super Series III Kicks Off

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To the delight of poker players in New Jersey, the third edition of the Garden State Super Series (GSSS) kicked off this weekend on partypoker NJ and BorgataPoker.com. The GSSS III features 43 tournaments from Oct. 11-25 with $800,000 in guaranteed prizes to be awarded to the winners.

The biggest event in the poker festival thus far has been the GSSS #2 - $75,000 GTD NLH, where 447 entrants ponied up the $215 buy-in to generate a $89,400 prize pool. The tournament ended in a four-way deal, with "Squishy" claiming the top prize of $13,000. Other players involved in the deal that scored big included "NJBorgata" finishing in second place for $11,000, "All_In_Me" securing $9,500 with his third-place finish, and "MickVictory" grabbing fourth place for $8,450.

The GSSS #3 - $20,000 GTD NLH 6Max Rebuy also surpassed its posted guarantee with 113 players contributing towards a $28,000 prize pool. New Jersey's "mixedfish" was the last man standing in this tournament banking $5,800, while "Glitterbunny3" finished in second place for $4,116.

Over on WSOP.com NJ and 888poker NJ, it was "donkfest85" outlasting a field of 164 players in the Sunday $30,000 Guarantee to win $8,192. New Jersey's "liquidTLO" won a solid consolation prize of $4,779 for his second-place finish.

Here's a full look at the New Jersey weekend results on partypoker NJ, BorgataPoker.com, WSOP.com NJ, and 888poker NJ:


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Daily $10K

Buy-inDateEntrantsPrize Pool
$100+9Oct. 1094$10,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Chris "SLOWROLLED" Daniels$3,000
2mixedfish$1,680
3raisydaisy$1,320
4OHYEAH$1,110
5bobbyv64$920
6Steven "stevenmadara" Madara$740
7FitzroidPoo$570
8showmetheco$400
9Ezzed$260

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GSSS #2 - $75,000 GTD NLH

Buy-inDateEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+15Oct. 11447$89,400
PlacePlayerPrize
1Squishy$13,000*
2NJBorgata$11,000*
3All_In_Me$9,500*
4MickVictory$8,450*
5Poboy$5,028
6Kevin "sofcksick" Campbell$4,112
7Snowball99$3,218
8Fishkabob$2,369
9LOLYOUFOLD$1,877

*Reflects four-way deal


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GSSS #3 - $20,000 GTD NLH 6Max Rebuy

Buy-inDateEntrantsPrize Pool
$50+5Oct. 11113$28,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1mixedfish$5,880
2Glitterbunny3$4,116
3Jake "takeAwalk" Schafer$2,800
4pokerphace777$2,268
5treetrap$1,694
6Alex "Breza" Breza$1,400

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$10,000 GTD Nightly [R&A]

Buy-inDateEntrantsPrize Pool
$27.50+2.50Oct. 10149$10,182
PlacePlayerPrize
1Married$2,800
2dom2307$1,629
3David "dak1616" Kotler$927
4monkey_wise$723
5haloweenjack$621
6QIGONG$519
7Bigt134$397
8Ross "acesfullrjr" Resnick$255
9RyanEric$183

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$30,000 GTD Weekly Sunday

Buy-inDateEntrantsPrize Pool
$185+15Oct. 11164$30,340
PlacePlayerPrize
1donkfest85$8,192
2liquidTLO$4,779
3Ross "acesfullrjr" Resnick$2,731
4Jake "schaf4206" Schafer$2,124
5Kevin "nowitsover" Truong$1,820
6mooseman1710$1,517
7William "billy8904" Nicotra$1,153
8Num1prnce$728
9TJBeenman$516

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$10,000 GTD Weekly Sunday

Buy-inDateEntrantsPrize Pool
$91+9Oct. 11142$12,922
PlacePlayerPrize
1Miklan3000$3,554
2Mike "CharlesSmith" Azzaro$2,068
3DeadWrong$1,176
4Mountain77$918
5Maureen "HotRedMomma" Ludwig$788
6MCDangles$659
7Anna "JewJon" Antimony$504
8BillClay$323
9URBit$233

If you play regulated online poker tournaments in New Jersey and would like your real name appearing in future articles, please contact this editor at [email protected].

*Special thanks to PocketFives.com for some of the data in this article.

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