New Jersey’s Orson Young won the WPT Online Borgata Open for $195,748. New Jersey ’s Orson ‘Borgotcha’ Young will have his name etched on the Mike Sexton World Poker Tour Champions Cup after taking down the final table of the WPT Online Borgata Poker Open powered by partypoker US Network for $195,748.
Young started the evening second in chips, looking up only to Borgata-sponsored pro Daniel Buzgon . But after a briskly paced final table was left with only three players, Young jumped out into a chip lead that he carried to the end.
With the blinds at 500K/1M (125K ante), the action folded to ‘justliberto’ in the small blind and he raised it up to 3.1 million holding . ‘DoURespectWood’ defended his big blind with the leaving themselves just 13 big blinds behind. The flop came and ‘justliberto’ led for 1.8 million and with his middle pair ‘DoURespectWood’ made the call. The came off on the turn and the action checked through. The river brought the and ‘justliberto’ went for it all, and moved all-in for more than enough to cover ‘DoURespectWood’. ‘DoURespectWood’ opted for a call and was shown ‘justliberto’ winning hand. ‘DoURespectWood’ exited in eighth place, good for $24,625.
Fifteen minutes later, a big flip decided the fate of Ryan ‘TheSims’ Hohner . After Buzgon opened from the cutoff with to 2.5 million, Hohner put in a three-bet on the button to 16.8 million with his . When it got to Young in the big blind, he four-bet shipped his big stack with the . Buzgon got out of the way, but with so much in the middle Hohner made the call for the rest of his stack. The board ran out , keeping Young’s pocket jacks in the lead the whole way and ending Hohner’s night in seventh place for $34,475.
With the blinds up to 600K/1.2M (150K ante), ‘CNC_LY’ open-shipped their stack of 18 million from hijack holding . On the button, ‘justliberto’ flatted with his and both blinds folded. The flop came and it looked like ‘CNC_LY’ might find a double with the dominated hand. But the […]
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