Event 20: Money Bubble Here, Vazquez Leads, Musumeci Grinding
With the Borgata Winter Poker Open WPT Main Event Championship still on dinner break, one expect the action in the room to have come to a halt, but with Event 20 ($400 Big Stack No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry) still underway there is plenty on the line to sweat.
The money bubble is set to burst at any moment with just 28 players left from the 260 entrant field.
The cash would have been reached a moment ago, with chip leader Luis Vazquez calling a short-stacked player's all-in bet with and having dominated. Both players flopped aces, but a dropped on the turn to keep the bubble intact. Vazquez remarked "what a turn card that was... I'm glad I have chips," while paying off the bet, and with 400,000 at his disposal, he is still the leader at the moment.
Amanda Musumeci is still surviving with a 64,000 stack, and as she put it "grinding" to score yet another cash here at the Borgata Winter Poker - just days removed from a runner-up performance which earned her a $17,214 payday.