1. The series kicks off with a $2 million guaranteed Deepstack Kickoff event and concludes with the $3 million guaranteed WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship. Sandwiched in between are dozens more tourneys, including the $500k guaranteed Almighty Stack and the $200,000 guaranteed Six-Max tourney.
2. Coverage of the poker series 2017/2018 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open, including results, chip counts, poker videos, and photos.

1. Borgata Winter Poker Open 2020 Blog
2. Borgata Winter Poker Open 2019

Detailed information about the No-Limit Hold'em Satellite Into WPT/WPO Main Event poker tournament at the 2017 Borgata Winter Poker Open on Jan 28, 2017 in Atlantic City, NJ. The Borgata and World Poker Tour have been attached at the hip since the WPT’s inception and in 2017, a new high was set for the Winter Poker Open. A total of 1,312 entrants populated the Season XV field and Weinman beat them all to win a reported $892,433. Want a slice of the action? Play poker and win a seat for the next tournament here: Like WPT on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Wo.

Daniel Weinman had his 29th birthday on February 3rd. What did he get on his special day? His first World Poker Tour title and a $892,433 payday.

“I turned 29 today, so this is a pretty awesome birthday present. My girlfriend flew in last minute, you couldn’t have scripted it any better,” Weinman told WPT reporters after coming out on top.

Weinman, a poker pro from Alpharetta, Georgia, defeated a field of 1,312 entries to take down the 2017 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event.

In addition to the title and the money Weinman also earned 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year points. As a result he flew up the leaderboard, landing in seventh place in the overall POY race standings, which are brought to you this year by the Commerce Hotel & Casino.

Weinman came into the final table in fourth chip position among the remaining six players. He got off to a solid start, winning seven of the first ten hands at the final table. In the 26th hand of the night Weinman got all-in with AA against Richard Foster’s KK on a JJ5 flop. Weinman ended up with aces full, sending Foster to the rail and moving into second place on the leaderboard.

Weinman was able to take the lead as play became more shorthanded, and the key pot that really set up the win came during three-handed play. With blinds of 75,000 – 150,000 and an ante of 25,000 Tyler Kenney raised to 350,000. Weinman three-bet to 1.2 million from the big blind and Kenny made the call. The flop brought the 854 and Weinman checked. Kenney bet 1.4 million and Weinman made the call.

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The 10 hit the turn and Weinman again checked. Kenney cut out a bet of 3,005,000 and slid it into the middle. Weinman thought it over for a moment before electing to call. The 3 completed the board and Kenney went into the tank before moving all in for 10,610,000. Weinman, who had Kenney covered by roughly a million, thought it over for a few minutes before making the call with the 95 for a pair of fives. Kenney could only produce the K9 for king high, and just like that he was eliminated in third place ($327,578).

With Kenney out Weinman took more than a 6-to-1 chip lead into the final heads-up showdown with Nathan Bjerno. Despite the lopsided chip distribution to start the two managed to play 50 hands before it was all over. Bjerno mounted several small comebacks but was never able to overcome the huge chip disadvantage he started with. In the end Bjerno got all in with A4 against Weinman’s A5. The board ran out A8674 to give Weinman the pot and the title, sending Bjerno to the rail as the runner-up. He earned $524,964 for his deep run.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at this final table:

Winner photo courtesy of WPT / Joe Giron.

The 2017 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open has achieved the largest field in its history as 192 additional entries were made on Day 2 to bring the total to 1,312. That number makes this tournament the fourth-largest in World Poker Tour history, as well. There are now just 168 players remaining heading into Wednesday’s Day 3 with Jack Duong leading the charge holding 727,500 chips.

The total prize pool for the Main Event is $4,199,712, eclipsing the guarantee by over a million bucks. 130 players will be paid – so the money bubble should burst today – with the winner receiving $892,433.

The chip leader, Jack Duong, has an interesting live tournament resume. He has a ton of cashes dating back five years, but most are small, only in the four-figure range (what I wouldn’t give to win over a thousand dollars in a poker tournament). Overall, though, he has earned more than $1.5 million in live tourneys. That total is thanks largely to four six-digit cashes, the best of which was his lone World Series of Poker bracelet win, coming in the 2015 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty event, where he earned $333,351. His best World Poker Tour cash came just last year, a $175,122 score for a fifth place finish in the WPT Choctaw Main Event.

Duong told WPT.com at the end of the night that his trek to the top of the leader board was partially because he played well and partially because he had a nice run of cards. Sounds like the formula for most tournament success. He actually entered Day 2 with just 27,000 chips, which was below the tournament’s starting stack, so growing that to over 700,000 is quite the single-day achievement.

He said that his key hand came very close to the end of the night, when he got into a pre-flop raising war holding pocket Kings when his opponent had Ace-Jack. Naturally (or we wouldn’t be talking about it), the Kings won out and Duong scooped a 400,000 chip pot.

Another hand I found entertaining isn’t really all that significant in the grand scheme of the tournament other than the fact that it culminated in the elimination of a strong player. It is one of those hands where the loser just has to shrug and think, “I never stood a chance.” For some reason, I chuckled reading about it.

Jeffrey Chang raised pre-flop, David Paredes three-bet to 29,000, Chang raised one again, putting for Paredes all-in for around 90,000 and Paredes made the call. Paredes had pocket Fours – not bad if you have to make a bold move – but Chang had pocket Kings. Ok, pretty standard pair over pair situation, but it got much worse. The flop brought a third King, reducing Paredes’ chances to runner-runner Fours or, as the suits were laid out, runner-runner hearts to hit a flush. The runner-runner hopes were dashed on the turn and then Chang hit quad Kings on the river for good measure. Like I said, it was just one of those hands.

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Day 3 begins at noon ET.

2017 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open – Day 2 Chip Leaders

Jack Duong – 727,500
Bart Dowling – 687,500
Mike Del Vecchio – 573,000
Nicholas Immekus – 552,500
Thomas Brinley – 549,500
Eugene Fouksman – 544,000
Olivier Busquet – 540,500
Tony Tran – 535,500
Ivan Fazal Karim – 533,500
James Dorrance – 522,500