Thursday, April 19, 2012

BORGATA SPRING: BATISTA, JOHNNYBAX IN CONTENTION AT BORGATA CHAMPIONSHIP


We are set for what should be an exciting final table at the Borgata Spring Open Championship in Atlantic City!

Will someone be able to follow in the footsteps of Andrew Badecker? Badecker won the Borgata Fall Open Championship in November and has been red-hot on the poker circuit ever since, picking up cashes from around the world.

One person certainly looking to grab that type of momentum is Florida's Chad Batista. Batista enters final table play third in chips, and Batista has been playing some good poker for the past few days.

A man that is no stranger to these situations, especially in the Northeastern US, is Cliff Josephy. Josephy would be the pick of many people at any final table, but, the fact that his chip stack is a 4:1 underdog to chip leader's Jia Liu means that things won't come easy for the man they call JohnnyBax.

Matt Woodward, who entered Wednesday play as the chip leader, is still alive and kicking; Woodward's stack sits just below the average chip stack line.

FINAL TABLE CHIP COUNTS
Jia Liu 4,219,000
Russ Dykshteyn 2,400,000
Chad Batista 1,600,000
Larry Abrams 1,543,000
Matt Woodward 1,420,000
Mike Borovetz 1,261,000
Cliff Josephy 1,033,000
Robert Pardo 770,400
Mike Meskin 429,000

The players will return to The Signature Room at Noon ET today.



FT PAYOUTS (USD)
1st $312,483
2nd $175,700
3rd $112,950
4th $89,733
5th $70,280
6th $57,730
7th $45,808
8th $35,768
9th $25,100
10th $16,315

EVENT COVERAGE
BORGATA SPRING OPEN


PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
Borgata Spring Open
NLH Championship
April 15-19, 2012

Borgata Hotel Casino | Atlantic City
Buy-in: $2,700 | Prizepool: $1,300,000
Entries: 520

PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION
1st Place 105
2nd Place 65
3rd Place 40
4th Place 30
5th Place 23
6th Place 15
7th Place 13
8th Place 10
9th Place 10

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