Event #8: $30K GTD Progressive Knockout Bounty | WPT Online Borgata Series powered by partypoker US Network

09-19-2020 19:00 UTC-5

Field Up To 62 At First Break

HillKerby

The first break of the evening has been reached midway through Level 3 with blinds of 250/500 and an ante of 60. Sixty-two entries have now been logged with 57 players in contention. The top 20 stacks in the tournament have been listed below.

Player	Chips	Progress
Holdem9292019	143,015
chaposticks	113,480
softee	99,830
lenny54	89,279
Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken	88,340
A. Jackson1767	83,980
phillychzsteak1	82,186
mia1223	70,635
treetrap	69,610
sri50k	67,841
Michael "miw210x" Wang	66,651

onoreally	65,980
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis	65,170
FRIELnGood	61,952
TheTerminator1	58,655
Exit_39	57,526
JakeTheSnake99	56,920
Tony "Bond18" Dunst	56,780

Dan “mj23style” Sewnig	56,528
BlackCoffee	56,143

09-19-2020 18:53 UTC-5

Get to Know BorgataPoker.com Sponsored Pro Katie Stone

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HillKerby

BorgataPoker.com has a trio of Sponsored Pros, and one of them is Katie Stone, who has been active in the 2020 Borgata Spring Poker Open Online Series.

Stone has more than $176K in lifetime live tournament earnings including a career-bet $33,305 for finishing 378th in the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event. In addition, Stone has three Borgata Open titles including the 2018 Borgata Fall Poker Open $300 Deepest Stack for $19,337, 2017 Borgata Summer Poker Open $300 Ladies Event for $2,867, and 2017 Borgata Fall Poker Open $300 Deepstack for $9,484. She also recently won the CSOP Borgata Winter Poker Open Event back in January.

However, where Stone has really thrived is online where she’s amassed more than $900K in lifetime earnings. Of that, $146,954 has come on BorgataPoker.com where she plays under the screen name “KatieStone.”

According to a Q&A she did with the Borgata Blog, Stone was born and raised in New Jersey, but after Black Friday in 2011, she relocated to Rosarito, Mexico in order to continue playing online. When New Jersey authorized Atlantic City casinos to offer online gaming within state borders, Stone moved back north to New Jersey and picked up where she left off — winning!

Recently, Stone took the initiative to create the Discord channel “Poker Peeps Affected By COVID19” and invited those in casino industry affected by recent shutdowns to join.

“I realized how tough it was going to be for everyone to keep up with everything and everyone, with so much changing so fast,” Stone recently told PokerNews. “So, I messaged my friend Cy Watson, who has been very active on social media as well regarding Coronavirus, asking him if he thought it would be a good idea to start a chat for people in the industry to be able to connect with each other for help.”

She continued: “I think the main thing poker players and everyone can do is to keep an open mind. Understanding that this is unlike any situation any of us have encountered before, and so thinking outside the box can go a long way. Taking the time to improve a skill, or learn a new skill whether it's a game or something else could be really beneficial not just financially, but mentally.”

Click here to learn more about Stone’s initiative.

09-19-2020 18:47 UTC-5

"Holdem9292019" Gets a Double Knockout

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HillKerby

In Level 2 with blinds of 200/400 and an ante of 50, a three-way all in ensued between the under-the-gun and short-stacked "jerseyman99", "Holdem9292019" in the hijack, and "mmmerg" who was on the button. The latter two players got stacks in on the river after the board ran out

"jerseyman99":
"mmmerg":
"Holdem9292019":

"Holdem9292019" wound up with a full house, tens full of kings to beat the turned trips of "mmmerg" to earn a double knockout and vault to the top of the counts early in the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Holdem9292019	159,785
jerseyman99	50,000
mmmerg	Busted

09-19-2020 18:38 UTC-5

Loads of Notables In Early

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HillKerby

In Level 1 with blinds of 150/300 and an ante of 40, the number of entries has grown to 46 in the first six minutes of play and two knockouts have already been recorded, one each by "phillychzsteak1" and "lenny54".

Many recognizable players are already in on the action this Saturday evening, including Borgata Ambassadors Michael "Gags30" Gagliano and Daniel "leinad" Buzgon, as well as Tony "Bond18" Dunst.

Player	Chips	Progress
phillychzsteak1	103,586 103,586	103,586
lenny54	99,139 99,139	99,139
Dan “mj23style” Sewnig	50,000 50,000	50,000
Michael “Gags30” Gagliano	50,000 50,000	50,000

Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski	50,000
mia1223	50,000 50,000	50,000
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman	50,000 50,000	50,000
jerseyman99	50,000 50,000	50,000
Ryan "Whosyourdoddy" Dodd	50,000 50,000	50,000
onoreally	50,000 50,000	50,000
Ryan “simlSgg” Hagerty	50,000 50,000	50,000
Michael "miw210x" Wang	50,000 50,000	50,000

Tony "Bond18" Dunst	50,000 50,000	50,000

TheTerminator1	50,000 50,000	50,000
Google_Man	50,000 50,000	50,000
sri50k	50,000 50,000	50,000
ELITEMALESSO	50,000 50,000	50,000
steveeee	50,000 50,000	50,000
mooseman1710	50,000 50,000	50,000
Daniel “leinad” Buzgon	50,000 50,000	50,000
treetrap	50,000 50,000	50,000
Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken	50,000 50,000	50,000

09-19-2020 18:30 UTC-5

Let's Get This Party Started!

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In Level 1 with blinds of 150/300 and an ante of 40, play has officially begun in Event #8: $30K GTD PKO. Registration is open for two-and-a-half hours for all who wish to enter for $320.

Forty-one players have registered to begin play

09-19-2020 16:14 UTC-5

Welcome To Event #8 of the WPT Online Borgata Series: $30K GTD PKO

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The WPT Online Borgata Series powered by partypoker US Network continues Saturday night with a pair of high-stakes events, featuring PokerNews coverage of Event #8: $30K GTD Progressive Knockout beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET.

All week long, the guaranteed prize pools have been exceeded by a large amount, with multiple tournaments seeing turnouts to generate prize pools of more than double their guarantee. Another large field is expected Saturday night With a Progressive Knockout format that sees 50% of each player's buy-in put atop their head as a bounty. Any time a player is eliminated, half of their bounty is automatically collected by the player who captured it, while the other half is added to that player's up-for-grabs bounty.

Registration is open for everybody within the state of New Jersey across any of the three platforms of partypoker US, Borgata Poker and BetMGM Poker.

Players start with 50,000 and blinds of 150/300/40. Unlimited entries and re-entries are available through the first 15 levels of play, all of which will last 10 minutes in length. Late registration will close and the prieze pool will become official at approximately 10:15 p.m. ET upon the end of Level 15, and all subsequent levels will be bumped up to 12 minutes in length for the duration of the tournament. A detailed look at the structure has been provided below.

Betting Structure

Level	Blinds	Ante	Length	Level	Blinds	Ante	Length	Level	Blinds	Ante	Length
1	150/300	40	10	19	3,500/7,000	875	12	37	60,000/120,000	15,000	12
2	200/400	60	10	20	4,000/8,000	1,000	12	38	70,000/140,000	17,500	12
3	250/500	60	10	21	5,000/10,000	1,250	12	39	80,000/160,000	20,000	12
4	300/600	75	10	22	6,000/12,000	1,500	12	40	90,000/180,000	22,500	12
5	400/800	100	10	23	7,000/14,000	1,750	12	41	100,000/200,000	25,000	12
6	500/1,000	125	10	24	8,000/16,000	2,000	12	42	120,000/240,000	30,000	12
7	600/1,200	150	10	25	10,000/20,000	2,500	12	43	140,000/280,000	35,000	12
8	700/1,400	175	10	26	12,000/24,000	3,000	12	44	160,000/320,000	40,000	12
9	800/1,600	200	10	27	14,000/28,000	3,500	12	45	180,000/360,000	45,000	12
10	900/1,800	225	10	28	16,000/32,000	4,000	12	46	200,000/400,000	50,000	12
11	1,000/2,000	250	10	29	18,000/36,000	4,500	12	47	250,000/500,000	62,500	12
12	1,200/2,400	300	10	30	20,000/40,000	5,000	12	48	300,000/600,000	75,000	12
13	1,400/2,800	350	10	31	25,000/50,000	6,250	12	49	350,000/700,000	87,500	12
14	1,600/3,200	400	10	32	30,000/60,000	7,500	12	50	400,000/800,000	100,000	12
15	1,800/3,600	450	10	33	35,000/70,000	8,750	12	51	450,000/900,000	112,500	12
16	2,000/4,000	500	12	34	40,000/80,000	10,000	12	52	500,000/1,000,000	125,000	12
17	2,500/5,000	625	12	35	45,000/90,000	11,250	12	53	600,000/1,200,000	150,000	12
18	3,000/6,000	750	12	36	50,000/100,000	12,500	12	54	700,000/1,400,000	175,000	12

WPT Online Borgata Series Schedule

The WPT Online Borgata Series, which runs from September 13-21, is comprised of 10 events with more than $275,000 in preliminary and post-lim guarantees. The highlighted tournaments will be live reported here on PokerNews.

Day	Date	Time	Event/Tournament	Buy-In
Saturday	9/19/20	7:30 PM	WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES #7: HEADS UP - 32 MAX BRACKET	$535.00
Saturday	9/19/20	7:30 PM	QUALIFIER into WPT $215 Satellite - 5 seats GTD NLH	$45.00
Saturday	9/19/20	7:30 PM	WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES #8: $30K GTD PROGRESSIVE KNOCKOUT - BOUNTY	$320.00
Saturday	9/19/20	8:00 PM	PHASE 1 into WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES Main Event	$109.00
Saturday	9/19/20	8:30 PM	SATELLITE: WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES Main Event - 10 seats GTD NLH	$215.00

Sunday	9/20/20	3:00 PM	SATELLITE: Boosted Turbo WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES Main Event - 10 seats GTD NLH	$215.00
Sunday	9/20/20	5:00 PM	WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES PHASE 2 - $1060 Buy-In Main Event powered by partypoker US Network	$1,060.00
Sunday	9/20/20	8:00 PM	WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES #9: $20K GTD TURBO PROGRESSIVE KNOCKOUT - BOUNTY	$215.00

Monday	9/21/20	7:00 PM	WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES PHASE 2 - DAY 2 LIVE STREAMED FINAL TABLE
Monday	9/21/20	8:00 PM	WPT ONLINE BORGATA SERIES #10: $20K GTD TURBO PROGRESSIVE KNOCKOUT - BOUNTY	$215.00

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Event #8: $30K GTD Progressive Knockout Bounty

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