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Borgata Winter Poker Open 2017

Tournament Info

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2016/2017 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open - $340 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo 8/OB - Poker tournament results, including winners and their payouts and winnings. 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. 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. The Borgata Winter Poker Open featured a $3 million guaranteed prize pool. Afriat took home $651,928 for winning the title in his second final table of Season XVI. The Quebec native claimed a fifth-place finish at WPT Montreal last November. 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.

Event Number: Event #35
Event Name: Winter Open - Event #35 - No-Limit Hold'em Satellite Into WPT/WPO Main Event
Event Type: Series Event
Game Type: NL Holdem
Event Start Date: Saturday, Jan 28, 2017
Starting Flights: 1
Length of Event: 1 day

Registration

Start Time: 7:00pm
Registration Opens: 8:00am
Registration Closes: 10:40pm; Late entry open until start of Level 9.

Buy-In Details

Total Buy-In: $400
Entry Fee: $350
Deductions: $50

Format

Starting Chips: 15,000
Starting Blinds: 50/100
Ante Type: None; Antes begin at Level 3.
Re-Entry: Unlimited; Until start of Level 9.
Rebuys: None
Addons: None

Structure

Level Time: 25
Break Length: 10 min
Break Frequency: After levels 5 and 8.
Structure Notes: Approximately 1 in 10 wins Borgata WPT/WPO Main Event entry. Residual cash awarded to next place finisher after all Main Event entries have been awarded.

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Katie Callahan

A 29-year-old won his first World Poker Tour title Feb. 3 at WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open. Daniel Weinman, the player in question, was also celebrating his birthday, making the win a double whammy.

“This is a pretty awesome birthday present,” said Weinman to the WPT. “My girlfriend flew in last minute, you couldn’t have scripted it any better.”

Weinman hasn’t played many tournaments outside of the World Series of Poker. He holds just over $2 million in career tournament earnings. He’s credited with inventing the Fantasyland variation of open-face Chinese poker.

Weinman takes home $892,433 after coming out ahead of the 1,312 player field, a record for the event.

At the start of play, these were the chip counts:

Seat	Name	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Jia Liu	6,815,000	85
2	Tyler Kenney	6,030,000	75
3	Nathan Bjerno	12,415,000	155
4	Nicholas Immekus	3,550,000	44
5	Richard Foster	5,130,000	64
6	Daniel Weinman	5,410,000	68

According to the live updates, Weinman made the call of the tournament, calling an all-in shove from Tyler Kenney on the river of a board that read with , topping Kenney’s king high.

This was anything but easy for Weinman, who was in a tough spot between calling and folding, but then he remembered reading something where Kenney had been timid to make moves at his other WPT Final Table.

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“I kind of had this feeling that the first time he really kind of turned up the heat, he might be light,” Weinman said to the WPT. “It was close, he didn’t have a ton of hands he could do that with for value. I would either look really stupid or I’d look like a hero forever.”

After 10 hands, eliminations began. Nicholas Immekus was first, taking sixth place for $184,787. Jia Liu (fourth, $275,081) and Kenney (third, $327,578) would follow.

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Weinman had a massive chip lead heading into the heads-up battle with Nathan Bjerno. He held 33.8 million in comparison to the measly 5.55 million Bjerno was holding. Bjerno would never find his way out.

The final hand had Weinman moving all in preflop. Bjerno would call all in for 3,450,000 with . Weinman held . The board came , so Bjerno could pair his four on the river, but that gave Weinman the eight-high straight to win the pot and the title.

Weinman received the title, the WPT Champions trophy and an inscription on the WPT Champions Cup. His prize money also includes a $15,000 seat into the WPT Tournament of Champions.