The first break of the evening has been reached midway through Level 3 with blinds of 250/500 and an ante of 60. Sixty-two entries have now been logged with 57 players in contention. The top 20 stacks in the tournament have been listed below.

Player	Chips	Progress
Holdem9292019	143,015
chaposticks	113,480
softee	99,830
lenny54	89,279
Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken	88,340
A. Jackson1767	83,980
phillychzsteak1	82,186
mia1223	70,635
treetrap	69,610
sri50k	67,841
Michael "miw210x" Wang	66,651
onoreally	65,980
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis	65,170
FRIELnGood	61,952
TheTerminator1	58,655
Exit_39	57,526
JakeTheSnake99	56,920
Tony "Bond18" Dunst	56,780
Dan “mj23style” Sewnig	56,528
BlackCoffee	56,143

BorgataPoker.com has a trio of Sponsored Pros, and one of them is Katie Stone, who has been active in the 2020 Borgata Spring Poker Open Online Series.

Stone has more than $176K in lifetime live tournament earnings including a career-bet $33,305 for finishing 378th in the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event. In addition, Stone has three Borgata Open titles including the 2018 Borgata Fall Poker Open $300 Deepest Stack for $19,337, 2017 Borgata Summer Poker Open $300 Ladies Event for $2,867, and 2017 Borgata Fall Poker Open $300 Deepstack for $9,484. She also recently won the CSOP Borgata Winter Poker Open Event back in January.

However, where Stone has really thrived is online where she’s amassed more than $900K in lifetime earnings. Of that, $146,954 has come on BorgataPoker.com where she plays under the screen name “KatieStone.”

According to a Q&A she did with the Borgata Blog, Stone was born and raised in New Jersey, but after Black Friday in 2011, she relocated to Rosarito, Mexico in order to continue playing online. When New Jersey authorized Atlantic City casinos to offer online gaming within state borders, Stone moved back north to New Jersey and picked up where she left off — winning!

Recently, Stone took the initiative to create the Discord channel “Poker Peeps Affected By COVID19” and invited those in casino industry affected by recent shutdowns to join.

“I realized how tough it was going to be for everyone to keep up with everything and everyone, with so much changing so fast,” Stone recently told PokerNews. “So, I messaged my friend Cy Watson, who has been very active on social media as well regarding Coronavirus, asking him if he thought it would be a good idea to start a chat for people in the industry to be able to connect with each other for help.”

She continued: “I think the main thing poker players and everyone can do is to keep an open mind. Understanding that this is unlike any situation any of us have encountered before, and so thinking outside the box can go a long way. Taking the time to improve a skill, or learn a new skill whether it's a game or something else could be really beneficial not just financially, but mentally.”

Click here to learn more about Stone’s initiative.

In Level 2 with blinds of 200/400 and an ante of 50, a three-way all in ensued between the under-the-gun and short-stacked "jerseyman99", "Holdem9292019" in the hijack, and "mmmerg" who was on the button. The latter two players got stacks in on the river after the board ran out

"jerseyman99":
"mmmerg":
"Holdem9292019":

"Holdem9292019" wound up with a full house, tens full of kings to beat the turned trips of "mmmerg" to earn a double knockout and vault to the top of the counts early in the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Holdem9292019	159,785
jerseyman99	50,000
mmmerg	Busted

In Level 1 with blinds of 150/300 and an ante of 40, play has officially begun in Event #8: $30K GTD PKO. Registration is open for two-and-a-half hours for all who wish to enter for $320.

Forty-one players have registered to begin play