Poker Tournament Results

Borgata Winter Open/ WPT Event - Season 4

Place	Name	Prize
1	Ravi Nderjit Anand (New York City, NY, USA)	$171,944
2	Billy Hill AKA "turtle" (Silver Spring, MD, USA)	$91,155
3	Anthony Hill (Syracuse, NY, USA)	$52,920
4	Jason Hickey AKA "The Finagler" (Stamford, CT, USA)	$46,305
5	Johnny Green (Fredricksberg, VA, USA)	$39,690
6	Dennis Levi (Jersey City, NJ, USA)	$33,075
7	Vincent Procopio (Philadelphia, PA, USA)	$26,460
8	Rohn Schutsky (Freehold, NJ, USA)	$19,835
9	Willaim Farilla AKA "Willy Will" (USA)	$13,561
10	Lisa Pickell (Bricktown, NJ, USA)	$7,938
11	John Disandro (Jamestown, RI, USA)	$7,938
12	Carlos Ocha (Marlton, NJ, USA)	$7,938
13	Rick Hall	$5,954
14	Albert Frampton AKA "buddy" (Maple Shade, NJ, USA)	$5,954
15	Frank Vecchio	$5,954
16	Eric Weinstein	$3,969
17	David Figgs	$3,969
18	Joe Caputo	$3,969
19	Matthew Gambino (West Bablon, NY, USA)	$3,308
20	Justin Terranova	$3,308
21	Pedro Vicente (Jersey City, NJ, USA)	$3,308
22	Daniel Saldana (Staten Island, NY, USA)	$3,308
23	Bill Towle (Medford, NY, USA)	$3,308
24	Nick Frangos (Mays Landing, NJ, USA)	$3,308
25	Robert Bergamino	$3,308
26	Thomas Dale	$3,308
27	Fatmir Cukovic (Staten Island, NY, USA)	$3,308
28	Dennis Scanlon (North Babylon, NY, USA)	$1,588
29	Robert Fetzko (Johnstown, PA, USA)	$1,588
30	Steve McNally (Henderson, NV, USA)	$1,588
31	Frank Williams (Mastic, NY, USA)	$1,588
32	Vincent Rappa	$1,588
33	Douglas Rosen (Tappan, NY, USA)	$1,588
34	Daniel Tilipiman	$1,588
35	Gregory Monaldi AKA "monalds" (Davie, FL, USA)	$1,588
36	Michael Klarman (Philadelphia, PA, USA)	$1,588
37	Kenny Elazzeh (New Bern, NC, USA)	$1,323
38	William Burden	$1,323
39	Gabriel Constanzo	$1,323
40	Scott Lang	$1,323
41	Robert Hunnicutt (USA)	$1,323
42	Alan Dworetsky (Woodmere, NY, USA)	$1,323
43	Matthew Suite (USA)	$1,323
44	Brian Lamanna (Leechburg, PA, USA)	$1,323
45	Alan Cohen AKA "Scrappy CoCo" (Cherry Hill, NJ, USA)	$1,323
46	Luis Thompson (USA)	$1,191
47	Wood Roberts (Hampton, VA)	$1,191
48	Thomas Coan (Bohemia, NY, USA)	$1,191
49	Edward Bruton (USA)	$1,191
50	Scott Litten (USA)	$1,191
51	Paul Minsky AKA "Wolf" (Newfield, NJ, USA)	$1,191
52	Ilya Soyfer	$1,191
53	Vinny Barbati (USA)	$1,191
54	Robert Woodward (USA)	$1,191
55	Michael Winslow AKA "Mike" (Leesburg, VA, USA)	$1,059
56	Nicholas Caltabiano (Fulton, NY, USA)	$1,059
57	Juan Kassar (Falls Church, VA, USA)	$1,059
58	Daniel Daconte (Mount Laurel, NJ, USA)	$1,059
59	Jamie Miceli (USA)	$1,059
60	Robert Armstrong (Oaklyn, NJ, USA)	$1,059
61	David Hoyell (USA)	$1,059
62	Dean Schultz (Stow, OH, USA)	$1,059
63	Jason Desantolo (USA)	$1,059
64	Joseph Dellanno (USA)	$993
65	Steven Toimollan (USA)	$993
66	Harvey Layton (Devon, PA, USA)	$993
67	Michael Freer (USA)	$993
68	Mong Phan (USA)	$993
69	Jerry Atkins (New York, NY, USA)	$993
70	Adrian Corona (USA)	$993
71	Brock McDonald (USA)	$993
72	Peter Sawras (USA)	$993
73	William Stoll (USA)	$993
74	Barry Kennedy (USA)	$993
75	David Quinones (USA)	$993
76	Blas Galang (USA)	$993
77	Michael Colucci (USA)	$993
78	Matthew Eidson (USA)	$993
79	Jose Torres AKA "AK is not a pair" (Cooper City, FL, USA)	$993
80	Hansu Chu AKA "Degen" (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$993
81	Vincent Valenti (Brooklyn, NY, USA)	$993
82	Rick Cusumano (USA)	$993
83	Peter Scheibe (USA)	$993
84	Glen Bindelglass (Boca Raton, FL, USA)	$993
85	Michael Decrosta (USA)	$993
86	Edwin Ting (Bronx, NY, USA)	$993
87	Guiseppe Santonastaso (Bronx, NY, USA)	$993
88	Richard Stern (USA)	$993
89	Tom Savitsky (Randolph, NJ, USA)	$993
90	Steven Krzywicki (USA)	$993
91	Rodney Ord AKA "Mike" (Elkridge, MD, USA)	$993
92	Vincent Condina (USA)	$993
93	Joanne Capritta-Gonzales (Schenectady, NY, USA)	$993
94	Matthew Newton (USA)	$993
95	Arthur Bressler (Manalapan, NJ, USA)	$993
96	Mark Wood (USA)	$993
97	Eric Raes (USA)	$993
98	Christopher Neenan (USA)	$993
99	Edgar Oates (USA)	$993
100	Marvin Lewis (USA)	$993

Tournament Report

New York City Man Takes Borgata Winter Poker Open Tournament by Storm ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (January 22, 2006) - The first event of the inaugural 2006 Borgata Winter Poker Open is finally under wraps. On the first day, 1,319 players came to see action, but in the end, only one survived the carnage that lasted the 20-hour marathon. The $500 buy-in event began Friday at 11:00 AM and went until 2:30 AM, with action starting again on Saturday at 2:00 PM and finally ending at 11:30 PM. Once the clock struck 2:00, the final 40 players were seated and all business. The short stacks quickly found themselves going all-in to survive the increasing blinds and each hour saw more and more players dropping like flies. The action only intensified as payouts escalated. Thanks to the large player turnout for the event, the prize pool reached $662,000, with the top nine finishers collecting at least $12,000 each. The action finally closed with New York City's Ravi 'Saint Soldier' Anand defeating Billy Hill. For his dominant display of poker skill and endurance, Anand took down the first place prize of $171,944 and the gold diamond-encrusted champion's bracelet. Anand's victory was quite the feat because this was his first live tournament and he has only been playing for five months. Hill made a cool $91,155 for his second-place finish. Possibly the most interesting story of the event, however, was stellar play by the only woman to make the final table, Lisa Pickell. Outlasting 1,309 players, she epitomized class when her ace-five suited lost to pocket queens and left to warm applause from the crowd. Pickell earned $7,938 for place finish. In describing her play, Pickell said her aggressive tactics helped throw her competitors off balance and was key to her beating the odds. Despite previously winning a World Series of Poker circuit event in December, even Pickell knew it would be difficult to navigate her way through the large number of players. 'To get through a field of 1,300 was amazing. My main goal was to get to the final table and I did, so I'm satisfied,' she said. Event two of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, the $750 buy-in, is also underway and had a better-than-expected turnout of 864 competitors, all with the goal of becoming the second Borgata Winter Poker Open champion. The prize pool for event two is $648,000, with the first-place finisher taking home $176,968.