John Meyer Wins Event 12: $400 Saturday Series $100,000 Guarantee ($41,977)
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In roughly an hour, the final table in Event 12: $400 Saturday Series $100,000 Guarantee went from 10 players to one. In the last 15 minutes of play, six players were eliminated, and the last five all fell at the hands of champion John Meyer.
In total, Meyer, who earned $41,977 and the trophy for winning the event, eliminated seven of his nine competitors. He won two three-way all ins, the first to eliminate Irwin Reiter in ninth place, and the second to knock out Joe Rodriguez and Mark Cleverly in sixth and fifth places respectively.
"I need to get a room now," Meyer said after the win.
Gene Mulroy survived long enough to finish runner-up, earning $24,237 for his efforts. Mulroy started the final table seventh in chips, but quickly doubled through Dave Elliot. While Meyer was annihilating his fellow tablemates Mulroy avoided the crosshairs, and entered heads-up play at a 17-to-1 disadvantage. Meyer made quick work of him, eliminating Mulroy with two queens in five minutes or so.
Paul Spitzberg was the first player to exit the final table, earning $2,136 for tenth place. This is Spitzberg's second final table at the 2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open, and he will be looking for his third appearance next week in the Season XII World Poker Tour World Championship.
Meyer outlasted 484 entries in this one-day reentry tournament on Easter Eve, which generated a total prize pool of $164,318. Among the players who busted in the money, but weren't fortunate enough to reach the final table, were Armando Then, Tommy Flanagan, Kevin McGee, and Yuri Takhalov. Then won Event 2: $550 Black-Chip Bounty NLHE Reentry, earning $28,420.
Not every player was fortunate enough to cash, including Robert "Uncle Krunk" Panitch, Ralph Massey, Amanda Musumeci, Olga Petrovskaya, and Katya Grishakova. Musumeci lost a race with 
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