A pair of Philly-area women poker players are still in the hunt as the Borgata Winter Poker Open championship event heads into Day 2 on Tuesday. Bensalem’s Jamie Kerstetter and Northeast Philly’s Amanda Musumeci are among the field of 391 survivors from first-round play that was spread over two days.
On Monday, Kerstetter joined friend Musumeci in the second round of play of the $3,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em championship as the Winter Open winds down. The championship attracted 734 entrants.
Kerstetter, who just finished fourth and won more than $22,000 in a no-limit hold’em bounty tournament leading up to the championship, bagged a little over 100,000 chips at the end of Day 1B, according to her Twitter messages. On Sunday, Musumeci was sitting on 70,000 as the last woman standing on Day 1A.
A few more women survived Day 1B, including Cherish Andrews with 60,000 chips, who is from the Chambersburg area in south central Pennsylvania, and Ebony Kenney with 15,000, a poker player and model from South Florida.
The chip leader on Day 1B was Tony Ruberto, from Boston, with 235,475. That was good for a $5,000 bonus for being a first-day chip leader. He also holds a small edge over the Day 1A chip leader, Alex Queen, of Bethlehem, Pa., who collected $5,000 on Sunday.
Photo: Jamie Kerstetter, left, and Amanda Musumeci, right. Courtesy The Borgata and Shurrilla Guerrilla.
The Borgata Winter Open continues through Feb. 3, with the championship having begun Jan. 29. Follow the Borgata poker action as it happens at both www.BorgataPokerBlog.com and at http://www.borgatawinterpokerblog.blogspot.com.
Day 1B Big Stacks
- Tony Ruberto 235,475
- Andrew Klein 197,900
- David Elyazyan 160,400
- Sam Bernstein 136,850
- Anthony Gregg 135,025
- Joe Neiman 134,700
- Freddie Rouhani 134,250
- Brian England 132,075
- Manh Nguyen 127,850
- Paul Spitzberg 126,850
- Abraham Korotk 125,450
- James Boyle 122,800
- Scot Anderson 121,500
- Scott Blackman 120,000
- Jacob Ferro 118,825
- Daniel Rohde 113,000
Day 1B Twitter Stack Counts
- Chalie Hook 104,000
- Jamie Kerstetter 102,400
- John Sorscher 89,000
- Vinny Pahuja 81,000
- Chris Tryba 68,525
- Jacob Bazeley 68,525
- Jack Schanbach 63,300
- Cherish Andrews 60,000
- Kevin Saul 50,550
- Larry Gold 50,000
- Matt Stout 49,000
- Scott Schwalich 30,450
- Larry Sharp 29,000
- Gordon Eng 26,875
- Stealthmunk 23,100
- Josh Brikis 23,000
- Jason Young 20,500
- Matt Berkey 15,000
- Ebony Kenney 15,000
