At the moment, The Return: a Borgata Championship Occasion kicks off on the Borgata Lodge On line casino & Spa at Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey.
Working from January 2-8, The Return: A Borgata Championship Occasion options 4 action-packed tournaments, together with a $3 million assured Foremost Occasion that ensures $1 million to the winner.
The Return is a $5,300 buy-in $3 million assured No-Restrict Maintain’em occasion that includes a brace of Day 1s. Day 1A shuffles up and offers at 11:00 a.m. on January 4 with Day 1B beginning on the similar time on January 5. Days 2 and three get underway at 11:00 a.m. on January 6 and January 7, respectively, with the ultimate desk commencing on January 8; the ultimate desk’s beginning time depends upon when Day 3 concludes.
Earlier than $3 million The Return, there’s the Borgata’s first-ever Thriller Bounty occasion. It prices $2,200 to enter, and ensures not less than $1 million value of thriller bounties. Rounding off the week-long sequence are a $2,100 buy-in Bounty Occasion the place you obtain $1,000 for each opponent you ship to the showers, and a $1,100 Tremendous Survivors event the place one in ten will stroll away with $10,000.
PokerNews’ reside reporting crew can be on the bottom all through the sequence, bringing you the entire motion because it occurs. Our crew is offering updates on the $2,200 Thriller Bounty, the $2,100 Borgata Bounty, and, in fact, the $3 million assured The Return Foremost Occasion.
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Listed here are 5 gamers, in no explicit order, to control throughout The Return:
Frank Funaro
Frank Funaro
Again in 2016, Frank Funaro notched his first-ever event rating in a event at Borgata. Since then, he’s amassed $2,281,579 in event earnings – which at the moment locations him 18th on New Jersey’s all-time cash checklist – together with a career-high $1,301,000 for ending fifth within the WPT World Championship just some weeks in the past.
That career-high rating was the cherry on high of a profession yr during which he amassed $1,556,530 in lifetime earnings in accordance with The Hendon Mob. That was almost 3 times greater than the $589,946 he earned in 2021. Oh, and he additionally captured a WSOP On-line bracelet again in October when he received Occasion #29: $1,000 NLH Championship for $94,097.
Funaro lower his chops at Borgata and used that have to exit into the broader poker world the place he’s discovered success. Now, the time has come for him to return to his dwelling on line casino and possibly, simply possibly, use that have to win large at The Return.
Cherish Andrews
Cherish Andrews
Cherish Andrews ended her 2022 on a little bit of a heater on the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, and she or he’ll be seeking to preserve that momentum within the New Yr.
Again on December 18, she completed runner-up to Dylan Linde within the WPT Wynn $10,500 Excessive Curler for a career-high $259,200. The next day within the $1,100 buy-in, $200K GTD No-Restrict Maintain’em, which attracted 736 entries and provided up a $721,280 prize pool, Andrews discovered her option to the winner’s circle claiming the trophy and $131,912 high prize by defeating MSPT Corridor of Famer Rob Wazwaz in heads-up play.
It proved a worthwhile WPT World Championship for Andrews, who along with the 2 large back-to-back scores, additionally received $78,045 three days prior due to a sixth-place end within the $3,000 NLH event. All advised, she received $469,157 over the course of 5 days!
Andrews confirmed with PokerNews that she’ll be at Borgata, so don’t be shocked to see her proceed her successful methods!
Dan Silver
Dan silver
Recognized for his work within the hockey world and a lifelong Philadelphia Flyers fan, Dan Silver is a author for Philly is Flyer and a contributor for each the O&D Puckcast and Getting’ Bullied Podcast.
Effectively, he’s taking a break from the ice to concentrate on the poker felt as he tweeted that he’ll be headed to Atlantic Metropolis to compete in The Return.
Headed to Borgata for every week of poker, the return of the large tournaments to AC
— Dan Silver (@dsilver88)
Jamie Kerstetter
Jamie Kerstetter
Jamie Kerstetter is returning dwelling! No, we’re not speaking in regards to the LFG Podcast, however fairly her dwelling state of New Jersey. The lauded poker commentator, who lately hosted a Women Meet-Up Recreation in the course of the WPT World Championship, can be again within the Backyard State to play The Return.
This previous summer time, Kerstetter and her teammate Corey Paggeot completed in second place within the World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Occasion #55: $1,000 Tag Staff for $45,756, a career-high rating for Kerstetter.
Her earlier greatest was $44,937 for taking twelfth within the 2012 WPT $3,500 Borgata Poker Open, so she’s no stranger to success in Atlantic Metropolis. That very same yr, she positioned fourth within the Borgata Winter Open $2,150 NLH Bounty for $20,370, and the next yr she took twenty second within the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open for $14,933.
Extra lately, Kerstetter completed sixth within the WPT Wynn $1,100 Women World Championship for $21,934.
Greg Himmelbrand
Greg Himmelbrand
If there’s a high quality poker event on the East Coast, you’ll be able to guess that Greg Himmelbrand can be there. The poker professional has $2,250,346 in lifetime event earnings in accordance with The Hendon Mob, which features a career-high $243,630 rating from the Borgata again in 2013. It got here when he topped a 2,899-entry discipline to win the Borgata Fall Poker Open $560 NLH Deep Stack Re-Entry.
Himmelbrand can be a two-time Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) champ. His first title got here again in 2015 when he received the MSPT Maryland Stay for $72,910, after which three years later he received the MSPT Potawatomi in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for $125,958.
A 3-time WSOP Circuit ring winner, Himmelbrand is all the time a power in any event he performs, which is why he’s value maintaining a tally of in The Return!
The Return: A Borgata Championship Occasion Schedule
| Mon 2 Jan | 11:00 a.m. | $2,200 NLHE Thriller Bounty Day 1A |
| 7:00 p.m. | $2,200 NLHE Thriller Bounty Day 1B | |
| Tue 3 Jan | 12:00 p.m. | NLHE Thriller Bounty Day 2 |
| 4:00 p.m. | $600 NLHE Large Stack The Return Qualifier | |
| Wed 4 Jan | 11:00 a.m. | $5,300 NLHE The Return Day 1A |
| Thu 5 Jan | 11:00 a.m. | $5,300 NLHE The Return Day 1B |
| Fri 6 Jan | 11:00 a.m. | The Return Day 2 |
| 3:00 p.m. | $2,100 NLHE $1,000 Bounty Day 1 | |
| Sat 7 Jan | 11:00 a.m. | The Return Day 3 |
| 1:00 p.m. | NLHE $1,000 Bounty Day 2 | |
| 2:00 p.m. | $1,100 NLHE Tremendous Survivor | |
| Solar 8 Jan | TBD | The Return Closing Desk |
| 12:00 p.m. | NLHE Tremendous Survivor Day 2 |
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Government Editor US, PokerNews Podcast co-host & 2013 WSOP Bracelet Winner.
