• The previous record was created during the WPT Borgata Online Series in September 2020, which awarded a total of $917,300 in prize money throughout 10 events. A record-setting $432,700 was paid out in the $1060 buy-in Main Event.
• $540 Buy-in + $60 Entry Borgata Almighty Stack $1 Million Guaranteed Wednesday, January 22 - Saturday, January 25 $350 Buy-In + $50 Entry WPT Televised Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship $3 Million Guaranteed Sunday, January 26 - Thursday, January 30 $3,300 Buy-In + $200 Entry MAIN EVENT SCHEDULE PRINT MAIN EVENT SCHEDULE (PDF).

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The 2020 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event drew a massive field of 1,290 total entries, blowing away the event’s $3,000,000 guarantee to create a final prize pool of $4,129,290. Cards got in the air for this event on January 26. After two starting flights and three more days of action, that sea of players has been narrowed down to just six. The remaining competitors are all now guaranteed a payday of at least $143,264, but surely each of them has their eyes on the title and the top prize of $674,840.

World Poker Tour is the premier name in internationally televised gaming and entertainment with brand presence in land-based tournaments, television, online, and mobile. The season installment of the WPT Borgata Poker Open was a truly special one. The buy-in was doubled to $10,000, entries climbed to 302, and the televised final table was packed with big names. Topping them all was none other than the legendary Daniel Negreanu, and “Kid Poker” took home $1.117 million in his first WPT victory.

The champion won’t de decided in this event for roughly two months, as this tournament is one of the first waves of WPT events to utilize a delayed final table format. Play concluded with the elimination of Peter Vitantonio in seventh place ($110,338) late on Thursday, Jan. 30. The final six bagged up their chips, with action set to resume on April 1. The final table will be filmed for television and live-streamed online at the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

The chip leader heading into the final table is Veerab Zakarian. His 11,990,000 will be good for roughly 100 big blinds when play resumes with 10:32 remaining in level 30, which features blinds of 60,000-120,000 with a 120,000 big blind ante. The Canadian is in prime position to add a massive amount of money to his current career live tournament earnings of $336,933. James Anderson sits in second chip position with 10,040,000. The Wooster, Ohio resident won his first World Series of Poker bracelet last summer in the $1,111 Little One For One Drop event, earning $690,686. He’ll be looking to add WPT champion to his list of tournament accolades in April.

Brian Altman (pictured above) will enter the final table in third chip position with 9,865,000. Altman is fresh off of making poker history as the first player to ever win the same WPT main event twice. He took down the 2020 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open $3,500 no-limit hold’em main event for $482,636 on Jan. 22, five years after having taken down the same tournament in 2015. Just over a week after emerging victorious in that event, Altman managed to navigate his way through the massive field in this main event to give himself a shot at his third WPT main event title. He would become only the sixth player in history to achieve that feat if he is successful this spring.

Bin Weng bagged up 8,890,000 to enter the final table in fourth chip position. He has already secured the largest cash of his tournament career by making it this far, and would more than double his total earnings with a finish inside the top three spots. Andrew Hanna sits in fifth place with 6,730,000, and like Weng, is at the biggest final table of his tournament career. The New Jersey resident has already managed to double his lifetime totals by making the top six.

Rounding out the final table is Nathan Russler with 3,990,000. Prior to making this final table, his largest score was for $75,407 as the 15th-place finisher in the 2019 WSOP $1,500 no-limit hold’em ‘Millionaire Maker’ event.

Here is a look at chip counts of the final six players:

Here are the remaining payouts up for grabs at the final table:

1st: $674,840 (includes $15,000 seat into the WPT Tournament of Champions)
2nd: $449,904
3rd: $333,012
4th: $248,913
5th: $187,900
6th: $143,264

Altman photo credit: Joe Giron / WPT.

A total of 1,156 entries were made in the 2019 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open $3,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, easily surpassing the tournament’s $3 million guarantee to create a final prize pool of $3,700,356. Six days after the first cards were dealt, it was Donald Maloney that emerged victorious with the title and the top prize of $616,186.

This huge tournament came to a close in a somewhat unusual fashion. After 189 hands at the final table alone, the final three players decided that they wanted to all move in blind and flip for the title. Uke Dauti was the first to move in for 13,025,000 from the button with 53, with Kevin Albers calling for his last 11,775,000 from the small blind holding J3. Maloney had both his opponents covered and called with the 104. The flop came down K53 to give Dauti two pair and the lead. The 6 on the turn gave Maloney some outs to a straight. The 2 on the river completed Maloney’s draw, locking up the pot and the title for the 31-year-old former hockey player.

“The last hand was pretty interesting,” Maloney told WPT reporters after winning. “The guys had decided that they were exhausted and really didn’t want to play anymore, so we decided to do a flip. It went runner-runner straight, so it was definitely meant for me to get the title and I’ll always remember it, I guarantee.”

The two starting flights in this event saw a massive turnout of more than 1,100 entries. It took three more full days of action to narrow the field down to the final six. Plenty of big names made deep runs in this event, including Jonathan Little (36th – $15,527), Aaron Mermelstein (22nd – $21,784), Justin Liberto (19th – $26,240), Vanessa Selbst (14th – $39,950), Ryan D’Angelo (11th – $48,979) and Nick Pupillo (7th – $100,657).

2019 WPT Borgata WInter Poker Open runner-up David Farah entered the final day as the chip leader with six remaining. 2006 WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic main event winner Victor Ramdin came into the day with the shortest stack, and ultimately was the first to hit the rail. Ramdin got his last chips in with KK up against the J8 of Kevin Albers. The 954 flop kept Ramdin well ahead, but the 7 turn gave Albers a gutshot straight draw. The 10 on the rivered filled his straight, earning Albers the pot and sending Ramdin to the rail as the sixth-place finisher with $130,672.

Five handed play continued for more than 11 orbits until the next big showdown arose. With a flop of A75, Jerry Maher got all-in with the 43 for a straight flush draw. Uke Dauti called Maher’s shove with A7 for top two pair. The 7 on the turn left Maher drawing to just the 2. The K gave him a flush, but it wasn;t enough to overcome Dauti’s full house. Maher took home $171,386 as the fifth-place finisher.

It only took 31 more hands for the next elimination to arrive. All the chips got in on a Q759 board, with David Farah holding Q7 for two pair. Maloney had flopped bottom set with the 55, though, and raised all-in to put Farah at risk. Farah called and was in need of a queen or a seven. The 3 was no help and Farah was knocked out in fourth place ($227,077).

The final three players battled it out for more than 20 orbits before making the decision to do a three-way flip. When the final hand arose, Maloney had Uke Dauti and Kevin Albers covered. As the shortest stack to start the hand, Albers was awarded $303,903 as the third-place finisher. Dauti earned $410,787 as the runner-up.

“With a WPT title not only do I feel more accomplished, but it’s literally set in stone that I was a champion at the highest level of poker,” Maloney said after winning. “I’ve definitely had some deep runs these last few years, but I was never a WPT champion. This is feeling really great right now. It hasn’t really set in yet, but I’m super stoked.”

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

Photo credit: WPT / Joe Giron.

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