Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
“Miami John” with a deep run in the Borgata Poker Open
The Full Tilt pros run at the Borgata Poker Open ended with the elimination of Robert Mizrachi. Several had a great run including Beth Shak, “Miami John” Cernuto and Steve Brecher. The tournament pushes today from the final 27 down to the 6 who will compete for the nearly $1.5 million first place money.
Even though the Full Tilt pros are gone, there is still some interesting poker to be played on the last 3 tables. Legendary player Ted Forrest (and “The Suicide King” from Michael Craig’s book The Professor, The Banker, and The Suicide King) is sitting in the middle of the field and is always dangerous. 2005 World Series of Poker runner-up Steve Dannemann made a late round push looking to add to his resume. Dan Heimiller, starting Day 4 as the chipleader, has 32 cashes in the WSoP including a braclet in 2002.
There are 8 WSoP represented in the remaining field and they have combined career tournament earnings of over $29,000,000.
The feel good story of the tournament was a run by professional hockey player Scottie Upshall. Upshall is a young right winger for the Philadelphia Flyers and was playing the event for charity. Having never played a casino poker tournament, his first table found him sitting with a former WSoP Main Event champ and several seasoned pros. He hung tight with the big guns and eventually went out 52nd of 515 banking $15,000 for his charities.
I’ll be here for the rest of the event, bring actual “Poker from the Rail“.
Update: the joys of near instant internet access. Just as I was preparing to post this, Ted Forrest was busted by a player who believed 88 was a proper hand to call off a half of his stack. Forrest and his pocket aces never stood a chance.
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