This year’s Borgata Poker Open attracted a milestone field of 1,042 players, up from the 1,018 players who competed last year in this $3,500 buy-in event. This is the largest WPT field ever assembled in the history of a World Poker Tour event. The results are finally in from day 1A and 1B of the World Poker Tour Borgata Open and they are quite impressive. Known to all 1042 entrants as Event #17, the $3500 WPT Championship No Limit Hold’Em tournament has been cut down to a field of 641 players from both days.
While Saturday’s turnout featured just 315 players, an impressive 727 sat down to play here at the Borgata on Sunday morning. The end result is that across the two days, exactly 641 players remain.
Your average stack is $49,249 chips tall with 275 players happy to be starting Day 2 with more than that. In the current top 10 only one player, a Canadian, Vincenzo Abate from Richmond Hill, Ontario is sitting at above 200k in chips. Here is the breakdown of our top 10:
| 1 | VINCENZO ABATE | $201,450 |
| 2 | JEREMY MAHER | $176,875 |
| 3 | ADEL JO | $160,525 |
| 4 | JEFFREY PAPOLA | $156,200 |
| 5 | GIUSEPPE PANTALEO | $148,300 |
| 6 | MARC LOME | $147,675 |
| 7 | JACOBO FERNANDEZ-HERNANDEZ | $145,100 |
| 8 | ANTHONY LICASTRO | $139,000 |
| 9 | DAJUAN WHORLEY | $137,500 |
| 10 | RUSLAN DYKSHTEYN | $132,150 |
Other Canadians still in the event along with their chip position at the start of Day 2 are as follows:
23. FRANCIS LAMOTHE (LE GARDEUR, CAN): 110,725
26. EVAN JARVIS (TORONTO, CAN): 108,500
34. JOHN MPENEHOUTSOS (TORONTO, CAN): 102,575
41. ALEXANDER WICE (TORONTO, CAN): 99,525
73. THOMAS TAYLOR (MEDICINE HAT, CAN): 84,000
89. ALAIN PAGEAU (LONGUEUIL, CAN): 78,150
162. DAVE SALVADOR (NIAGARA FALLS, CAN): 64,275
207. HUGO DUMOULIN (NOTRE DAME DE LILEPERROT, CAN): 57,800
209. AERIAL NOSEWORTHY (BOTWOOD, CAN): 57,650
215. NICOLAS PUN (BELOEIL, CAN): 56,225
236. YANICK BRODEUR (SHERBROOKE, CAN): 53,425
248. ANDRE BOYER (ACTON VALE, CAN): 52,500
262. GEORGE CARAGIORGAS (LAVAL, CAN): 51,000
266. BILL KONTARATOS (LAVAL, QUEBEC, CAN): 50,425
267. DAVID MACDONALD (CALGARY AB, CAN): 50,300
309. AMER SULAIMAN (WOODBRIDGE, ONTARIO, CAN): 45,250
326. GAVIN SMITH (LAS VEGAS, NV): 43,150
341. FRED DEGUZMAN (OTTAWA, CAN): 41,800
388. PETER KAVOURAS (MONTREAL, CAN): 37,025
423. ROBERT CHEUNG (BURNABY, CAN): 33,600
487. MATTHEW VERES (CALGARY, ALBERTA, CAN): 26,575
488. JOSEPH CALABRETTA (CANTON, OH): 26,500
496. JOHN NIXON (TORONTO, CAN): 25,700
510. LEVON DEDEYAN (LAVAL, CAN): 25,000
567. IVAN MAMUZIC (BRAMPTON, ONTARIO, CAN): 18,375
571. EMMANUEL DESMARAIS (MONTREAL, CAN): 17,975
600. LIET TAN (MONTREAL, CAN): 14,525
635. YAN NEIMAN (VAUGHAN, CAN): 8,322
