Joseph Galazzo Wins Event 17: $100,000 Guarantee Big Stack No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry ($57,486)
Level 29
: 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante
After 19 hours of play, we've crown a champion here at Event 17 at the Borgata Winter Poker Open: Joseph Galazzo, who topped a field of 730 entrants to grab a $57,486 first-place prize. Galazzo mowed down an incredibly speedy final table, finishing the heads-up match in style when he picked up aces and got it all in preflop for the win. The final four bustouts occurred in a span of just 28 minutes.
Seven of Galazzo's nine career tournament cashes (live total of $112,320 coming into tonight) have come at Borgata Poker Open events, including a first-place finish in a $560 Borgata 10th Anniversary Poker Tournament event last summer for $79,635.