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Live: $25,500 WPT World Championship Final Table
Recap: $100,000 WPT Super High Roller
| Earnings | $265,475 |
| Cashes | 1 |
| Final Tables | 1 |
| Titles | 0 |
| Tournaments Played | 1 |
Est. Current Chipcount
Est. Average Chipcount
31,260,000
Current Chipleader
-
Day 3
1,173,000
Day 4
2,255,000
Day 4-
3rd
Level 34: 100,000-200,000, 25,000 ante
Mike Gogliormella moves all in from the button for 1,850,000, and James Anderson calls from the big blind with A
J
. Gogliormella turns over K3
, and he'll need to improve to stay alive.
The board comes 84
410A, and Anderson wins the pot with two pair, aces and fours, to eliminate Mike Gogliormella in third place.
Mike Gogliormella - Out in 3rd Place ($265,475)
Level 34: 100,000-200,000, 25,000 ante
James Anderson raises from the cutoff to 425,000, Mike Gogliormella moves all in from the button for 1,725,000, and Anderson calls with K7. Gogliormella turns over A10, and he'll need it to hold to stay alive.
The board comes 108786, and Gogliormella wins the pot with two pair, tens and eights, to double up in chips.
Mike Gogliormella - 3,875,000 (19 bb)
James Anderson - 8,325,000 (41 bb)
Level 33: 75,000-150,000, 20,000 ante
Seat 5: MIKE GOGLIORMELLA - 2,225,000 (22 bb)
Mike Gogliormella is from the Bronx in New York City and he works in Brokerage Operations. Mike has been doing that for the past 14 years but he decided to enter his first World Poker Tour event here at the Borgata Winter Poker Open. He has turned $3,500 into a six-figure score in Atlantic City. He is in fifth chip position at the start of the final table. He is married with two children and earned a degree in Marketing from St. Johns University. The 39-year-old is an active player at the tables that describes his playing style as loose.
Level 31: 50,000-100,000, 10,000 ante
Seat 1: Jeremy Druckman - 6,170,000 (61 bb)
Jeremy Druckman is a 22-year-old professional poker player that is quite a long way from home. He is from Portland, Oregon originally, but attended the University of Pennsylvania to study Risk Management and Psychology. He has been playing poker for three years and he has two previous tournament cashes, which both came at the Borgata. The Borgata Winter Poker Open is his first World Poker Tour main event and he has made it a successful one (Druckman is guaranteed at least $147,671). Druckman will have his girlfriend in the crowd supporting him today as he enters the final table in third chip position.
Seat 2: Matthew Salsberg - 1,920,000 (19 bb)
Champions Club member Matthew Salsberg needs very little introduction. He won the WPT Grand Prix de Paris this past fall and he is in the running for WPT Season XI Player of the Year. This will be Salsberg's second WPT final table and his third cash on the tour. In addition to his win in Paris, Salsberg also took 42nd place at the Legends of Poker in Season X. Salsberg is also a Producer and Writer in Hollywood, where he formerly worked on the Showtime comedy Weeds. He has been playing in a lot more poker tournaments since the conclusion of that series and his success rate speaks for itself.
Seat 3: Matt Haugen - 3,235,000 (32 bb)
Matt Haugen is a 27-year-old professional poker player from Ann Arbor, Michigan that currently lives in Chicago. He attended the University of Florida before getting into poker. Haugen has $169,485 in prize money and he will surely double that number with a cash today. Haugen begins in fourth chip position at the final table. This is his second WPT event and first cash on the tour.
Seat 4: James Anderson - 7,830,000 (78 bb)
Jim Anderson enters today’s final table in second chip position. He is a 26-year-old poker professional who has been playing for six years. He is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Ohio. He has over $800,000 in career earnings and his largest previous cash was a first-place finish at a World Series of Poker Circuit regional championship event at the Horseshoe Hammond casino that was good for $525,449. This is his first WPT final table.
Seat 5: Mike Gogliormella - 2,225,000 (22 bb)
Mike Gogliormella is from the Bronx in New York City and he works in Brokerage Operations. Mike has been doing that for the past 14 years but he decided to enter his first World Poker Tour event here at the Borgata Winter Poker Open. He has turned $3,500 into a six-figure score in Atlantic City. He is in fifth chip position at the start of the final table. He is married with two children and earned a degree in Marketing from St. Johns University. The 39-year-old is an active player at the tables that describes his playing style as loose.
Seat 6: Yung "Andy" Hwang - 9,550,000 (95 bb)
Andy Hwang enters the final table with the chip lead, which is a title he has held in this tournament for quite some time. Hwang was a dominant chip leader throughout the play-down day on Thursday and if things go well he could claim the top prize in this tournament worth $730,053. That would top his largest previous cash, which was a fifth-place finish in the World Series of Poker Circuit National Championship in 2012 (good for $103,322). The 27-year-old poker professional from Houston, Texas has $247,099 in career earnings but this is his first WPT cash.
Level 29: 30,000-60,000, 5,000 ante
Hand #51 - Mike Gogliormella limps from the hijack for 60,000, Cuong Phung completes the small blind, and Jeremy Druckman checks his option in the big blind. The flop comes Q53, Phung bets 95,000, Druckman raises to 195,000, and Gogliormella reraises to 450,000.
Phung and Druckman both fold, and Gogliormella takes the pot.
Mike Gogliormella - 4,150,000 (69 bb)
Level 27: 20,000-40,000, 4,000 ante
Joseph Brattole moves all in preflop from the small blind for a little more than 450,000 and Mike Gogliormella calls on the big blind. Their cards:
Brattole: A10
Gogliormella: 99
Board: 76554
Brattole is eliminated on the hand in 18th place and Gogliormella edges past 2 million.
Mike Gogliormella: 2,100,000 (52 bb)
Joseph Brattole: Out in 18th Place ($18,251)
Level 24: 10,000-20,000, 2,000 ante
Jeremy Druckman opens to 48,000 from UTG+2 and Anthony Zinno calls from the cutoff. Mike Gogliormella three-bets to 105,000 from the small blind, both players call, and the flop comes down QT4.
Gogliormella bets 175,000, and both opponents quickly fold. As he's collecting the chips, Gogliormella shows AA.
Mike Gogliormella - 1,200,000 (60 bb)
Level 23: 8,000-16,000, 2,000 ante
With about 300,000 in the pot and the board reading 874T, Mike Gigliormella bets roughly 140,000 out of the small blind. Robert Tepper raises all in for for about 340,000 from the button and Gogliormella calls with 98. Tepper trails with 97 and though he improves to two pair with the 9 river, Gogliormella takes it down a better two pair.
Mike Gogliormella - 1,410,000 (88 bb)
Robert Tepper - Out in 42nd Place ($11,615)
Level 22: 6,000-12,000, 1,000 ante
Jim Anderson raises to 25,000 from UTG+2 and is called by Mike Gogliormella in the hijack, Matt Haugen from the cutoff, and Yung Hwang from the big blind.
The flop falls 652 and action checks to Haugen who bets 52,000. Hwang and Gogliormella calls to see the 7 turn which is checked around. The T river falls and Hwang checks. Gogliormella bets 135,000, Haugen folds, and Hwang calls.
Gogliormella tables 55 for a flopped set, but Hwang showed 77 for a better turned set.
Yung Hwang - 1,840,000 (153bb)
Mike Gogliormella - 820,000 (68 bb)
