Poker Tournament Results

Borgata Poker Open - WPT Season 4

Place	Name	Prize
1	Jim Maglio	$149,715
2	Jeff Coon AKA "smoothlid" (Jackson, NJ, USA)	$77,630
3	Fabio D'Agata (Needham, MA, USA)	$44,360
4	Anthony Saladino (Staten Island, NY, USA)	$38,815
5	Lucas Green	$33,270
6	Don Matusow (Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)	$27,725
7	Carlos Zambrano (Copiague, NY, USA)	$22,180
8	Karlo Lopez (San Juan, Puerto Rico)	$16,635
9	Paulo Laueiro	$11,363
10	Steve Wisk (NJ, USA)	$6,654
11	Raymond Deleon	$6,654
12	Michael Cohen (Houston, TX)	$6,654
13	Balant Banta	$4,991
14	Jeff Owen (Havre De Grace, MD, USA)	$4,991
15	Seth Waikoff	$4,991
16	Alan Cohen AKA "AC" (Cherry Hill, NJ, USA)	$3,327
17	Gary Nikorak (Westfield, NY, USA)	$3,327
18	Jerry Atkins (New York, NY, USA)	$3,327
19	Ryan Stiffler (East Freedom, PA, USA)	$2,773
20	Patrick Flynn (Spokane, WA, USA)	$2,773
21	Unknown	$2,773
22	Brian Haveson (Surf City, NJ, USA)	$2,773
23	William Hamilton (Pasadena, CA, USA)	$2,773
24	Steven Sorbello (Littleton, MA, USA)	$2,773
25	Arnold Parmid	$2,773
26	Brent Keller (Oyster Bay, NY, USA)	$2,773
27	Richard F Conklin	$2,773
28	Robert B Wallace	$1,331
29	James F O'conner	$1,331
30	Scott R Hughes (USA)	$1,331
31	Bob Poulos	$1,331
32	Gregory Rudolph (Oceanside, NY, USA)	$1,331
33	Jin Hwang (San Diego, CA, USA)	$1,331
34	Joe Simmon	$1,331
35	Jordan Glick	$1,331
36	Scott Driscoll	$1,331
37	Teddy D. Push	$1,109
38	Anthony D'Amato	$1,109
39	Anthony Lamarra AKA "Doc" (Houston, TX, USA)	$1,109
40	Sven Rnne	$1,109
41	Gene Faehner	$1,109
42	Steven R. Schlesinger (Syosset, NY, USA)	$1,109
43	Brian Lamanna (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$1,109
44	Adam Chatman AKA "Call of the Century" (Centreville, VA, USA)	$1,109
45	David Sporn	$1,109
46	William Barnard (Manasquan, NJ, USA)	$998
47	Scott Tannura	$998
48	Alex Vaszilycsak	$998
49	Eric Hong	$998
50	Unknown	$998
51	Vincent Villamot	$998
52	Herbert Cheng AKA "The Slasher" (Little Neck, NY, USA)	$998
53	Abraham Gray (Lawrenceville, GA, USA)	$998
54	Anthony Segarra (Westbury, NY, USA)	$998
55	Erik Reisser	$887
56	Lynn Elney	$887
57	Eric Weinstein	$887
58	Alan Kraut	$887
59	Gil Mendel (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$887
60	Jason Seguin	$887
61	Brett Guthrie	$887
62	Larry Shank	$887
63	Chamsamone Sipasert	$887
64	Matthew Haines	$776
65	Christoph Ebbe	$776
66	Steven Holihan	$776
67	Ron Bigler	$776
68	Greg Miller (Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands)	$776
69	Mark Seubert	$776
70	Daniel Shapiro (Great Neck, NY, USA)	$776
71	Even Kochan	$776
72	Marc Podell (New York, NY, USA)	$776
73	Charles P Kuruzoukh	$665
74	Ray Morgan (New York, NY, USA)	$665
75	John Raymond P Egan	$665
76	Sang Tae (Leonia, NJ, USA)	$665
77	Scott Glaze (Warrenton, VA, USA)	$665
78	Ray DiDonato (Laurel Springs, NJ, USA)	$665
79	Lois Russo (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$665
80	Vito P Debellis	$665
81	Christian Pimpinella	$665
82	James Riviello	$610
83	Marc D Miele	$610
84	Michael J Sciandra	$610
85	Simeraldo Cifelli Sr.	$610
86	Joe W To	$610
87	Charles Nail	$610
88	Sassoun Sarhadian	$610
89	John Spagnuolo (Howard Beach, NY, USA)	$610
90	Matthew Szymaszek (Charlestown, MA, USA)	$610
91	Edwin J Buskirk	$555
92	Jonathan Bascom (Edison, NJ, USA)	$555
93	Kiaocho Shanguan	$555
94	William Hunter	$555
95	Benjamin Collins	$555
96	Ilya Ochakovsky (Little Neck, NY, USA)	$555
97	Victor Cisario (Rockville Centre, NY, USA)	$555
98	Christopher Harpley	$555
99	Kum Nan Dollison	$555
100	Irwin Zamore	$555

Tournament Report

OVER 1,100 PLAYERS PARTICIPATE IN BORGATA POKER OPEN DAY 1 EVENT ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (September 13, 2005) - Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, the preeminent casino-hotel destination on the East Coast, took another step in cementing its position as one of the top gaming venues when it kicked off its annual Borgata Poker Open on Sunday. The competition drew a record-breaking 1,100 players from across the East Coast, including former Saturday Night Live personality and television/film star, Norm Macdonald, for the tournament's debut $500 event. 1,109 players battled it out on the felt for a total prize pool of $554, 500 dollars. The final 100 players who survived the poker frenzy made the money, taking home more than just an amazing experience. Sunday's premiere tournament showed why the Borgata's events are drawing huge numbers of competitors. Players began the long journey to the big cash at 11 a.m. and action continued well into the night, finally finishing the day's happenings at 2:30 am. At the conclusion of the evening, there were 34 players left to continue the quest to become champion and win a huge cash payout. Play resumed on Monday and saw eventual champion, James Maglio, take home first prize for his stellar play. The 'Rocky-like' champion, who ironically hails from Philadelphia, used his short stack of 96,500 chips to beat all challengers in his path and take the first place prize. For outlasting the field in this 22-hour marathon, Maglio took home a whopping $149, 715 cash prize. Rye, New Hampshire resident, Jeff Cohen, who started Monday in third place finished the day with a worthy second place finish and taking home a cool $77,630. Finishing third was Fabio Dajata who also battled back from a short stack of 91, 500 chips, collecting $44,360 for his efforts. The premiere of the Borgata Poker Open demonstrated that players are enjoying the competition and surroundings of this beautiful venue and service-dedicated facility. According to the Borgata's director of poker operations Stan Strickland, the event is supplying a unique opportunity for players. 'The tournament is off to a great start. Getting over 1,100 players to buy into a $500 event is something you don't see very often in a full service casino like Borgata.' Things will only heat up later in the week as the buy-ins to events increase and the cash payouts continue to grow with record numbers of players expected throughout the 12-day event series. Strickland believes this will be the biggest tournament at Borgata to date. 'I'm sure that we will have big crowds the remainder of the week and look forward to a World Poker Tour Event next week that will offer a purse of $5 million.”