2020 Borgata Spring Poker Open Online Series

The field size has grown to 184 players and the number remaining has dropped to 34 at the beginning of Level 18. Blinds are 4,000/8,000 with an ante of 1,000.

This is the last level to register for the tournament.

Action was in Level 17, the second-to-last level of the registration period with blinds of 3,500/7,000 and an ante of 875. Ari Engel opened to 14,000 under the gun and received a call from "mmflpoker" in early position. Action folded around to "selsk32285" in the big blind, who defended to take action three ways to a flop of .

"selsk32285" checked and Engel made a continuation-bet of 17,000. "mmflpoker" called and "selsk32285" folded.

Action was then heads up to the turn and Engel checked. "mmflpoker" fired out 65,531, more than two-thirds of Engel's remaining stack, and Engel check-raised all in for a total of 90,143. "mmflpoker" thought for about 15 seconds and then called off the remaining chips necessary to see the final card of the runout.

Ari Engel:
"mmflpoker":

Engel was ahead and in need of fading just the two remaining fives in the deck, which he was able to do as the river came to score him the double.

Player	Chips	Progress
mmflpoker	784,833 83,296	83,296
Ari Engel	267,661 201,961	201,961
selsk32285	185,650 69,355	69,355

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With blinds of 2,500/5,000 and an ante of 525 midway through Level 15, "Imuckjacks" raised to 10,000 in the hijack and saw "LordRamsaySlays" three-bet to 35,000 on the button. "brownmagic" cold four-bet all in from the big blind, covering both players that had committed chips to the pot, and both players called for a three-way all-in situation.

"Imuckjacks":
"LordRamsaySlays":
"brownmagic":

"LordRamsaySlays" found themselves with the best of the three hands and their kings held up as the board ran out , winning both the main and side pots for just shy of 350,000 total.

Player	Chips	Progress
LordRamsaySlays	346,201
brownmagic	35,628
Imuckjacks	Busted

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Play was in Level 13 with blinds of 1,800/3,600 and an ante of 450 when "JinYang" raised to 7,920 in middle position. "Sugawolf" was on the button and called to put action on "BrigBeast06" in the small blind, who three-bet all in for around 50,000. The players in the blinds folded and "JinYang" reraised all in, folding out "sugawolf" to result in a heads-up situation for the runout.

"BrigBeast06":
"JinYang":

"BrigBeast06" had their opponent dominated and was a huge favorite to earn a double. The flop came to give them the nut flush, all but securing the double as long as they could fade running full house outs. The turn made the result certain and the river completed the runout before the pot was shipped to "BrigBeast06, who finished with the nuts en route to a double.

Player	Chips	Progress
JinYang	297,496 140,774	140,774
BrigBeast06	121,878
sugawolf	121,852

With blinds of 1,600/3,200 and an ante of 400 in Level 12, "MattEMenz" saw action folded to him in the cutoff and went all in for 50,300. "BigDickRick" was in the big blind with slightly less and thought for a bit before making teh call.

"BigDickRick":
"MattEMenz":

"BigDickRick" made a straight by the river as the board ran out but "MattEMenz" finished with a full house, good to score the pot and the knockout.

A hand later, "BokeemSpades" got all in for their stack with ace-ten against the pocket kings of "MattEMenz" and spiked an ace on the turn to double, bringing stacks to their current values.

Player	Chips	Progress
MattEMenz	65,686 -23,158	-23,158
BokeemSpades	61,628 -7,672	-7,672
BigDickRick	Busted

With play in Level 11 and blinds of 1,400/2,800 with an ante of 350, "avidsmores" raised to 20,000 under the gun and "centrfieldr23" went all in over the top. Action made its way back to "avidsmores" and they called off the last 8,000 or so that remained in their stack.

"avidsmores":
"centrfieldr23":

The two were in a coin flip situation with "avidsmores" out in front, pulling further ahead on the flop . However, the remainder of the runout was all "centrfieldr23" as the turn and river left them with aces up, besting "avidsmores" nines to win the pot and send them to the virtual rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
centrfieldr23	85,542
avidsmores	Busted