Two Philly-area women poker pros made it to Day 3 of the Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship in Atlantic City. Northeast Philly’s Amanda Musumeci finished the second round with 148,000 chips and Bensalem’s Jamie Kerstetter had nearly 95,000 chips. The Borgata’s Winter main event is a $3,500 buy-in and 119 players remain from the starting field of 734.
The winner gets $542,771 and the top 72 players cash for a minimum of $6,785. Play resumes at noon on Wednesday with blinds at 2K/4k/400 ante and the average stack at 185,000 (46 big blinds).
The chip-leader is Marc Goldman, of Easton, Pa., with about 640,000 chips followed by Charlie Townsend, of Dagboro, Del., with 630,000
Kerstetter was nursing a short stack for a while and at one point was all-in three out of four hands, according to the official tournament blog. She won a big hand from friend Alex Queen, from Bethlehem, the Day 1A chip-leader. Here’s how the blog reported it.
Kerstetter is in for 27k and behind with pocket 4s against Queen’s pocket 7s. The two outer hits the river and she stays alive with a set of 4s, while Queen drops to 60k.
Queen was eliminated late in the round.
Kerstetter tweeted, “Ending day 2 of borgata $3500 with 94,900. Coming back to 2k/4k tomorrow.”
Musumeci tweeted that she lost a large pot near the end of the round. She tweeted, “Ugh slightly tilted. Lost like 80k pot vs a tilted guy on 2nd to last hand of the night. Started day w 69k n bagged 148k so its w/e.”
Among area players who are going on to Day 3 are Matt Glantz, of Lafayette Hill in Montgomery County, with 70,000, Matt Brady, of Havertown in Delaware County, with 93,000, Matt Stout, of Galloway, N.J., with 58,000, Joe Verrecchia, of Sewell, N.J., with 421,000, and Daniel Buzgon, of Marlton, N.J., with 347,000.
Big Stacks
- Marc Goldman 640,000+
- Charlie Townsend 638,300
- Abraham Korotki 547,700
- Tony Ruberto 544,200
- Manh Nguyen 473,000
- Joe Verrecchia 421,600
- Eric Afriat 410,000
- Scott Anderson 390,000
- Greg Koutelidakis 375,800
- Chalie Hook 371,600
- David Paredes 366,800
- Daniel Buzgon 347,200
- Eric Doerr 341,000
- John Zoldak 330,600
Twitter Stacks
- Jacob Bazeley 320,000
- Justin Zaki 280,800
- Matt Matros 195,300
- Tonny Gregg 160,000
- Edward Pham 156,000
- Amanda Musumeci 148,000
- Larry Gold 128,000
- Matthew Ezrol 98,000
- Chris Tryba 97,000
- Jamie Kerstetter 94,900
- Matt Brady 93,000
- Brock Parker 84,000
- Matt Glantz 70,000
- Matt Stout 58,000
The Borgata Winter Open continues through Feb. 3 with the championship, Jan. 29-Feb. 3. Follow the Borgoata poker action as it happens at both www.BorgataPokerBlog.com and at http://www.borgatawinterpokerblog.blogspot.com.
